Day 19 (Would you like more NASA propaganda?)

Today was a really relaxed day, for the most part. We worked on clips all morning and did not stop for anything. I got the introduction to my video done and started to work on the interviews. I got all of the introductions of the students done and Lara’s interview, the main one, done. I was really pleased with myself. I can’t help feeling the pressure of getting this project done weighing down on me though. I feel really stressed now because there is less than a week until our final product is due. We went to lunch and then went back to the dorm to change because we wanted to film in front of the green screen after lunch. We went back to NIA worked on memorizing our script and then headed over to see Mike and Kevin, the producers of NASA 360. We spent an hour and a half over there basically just talking to them and hanging out. They gave us a bunch of NASA propaganda and I have a ton of stuff to put up in my room now. They also gave us music to use for our video. They showed us the ropes of editing and the tips and trick of it too. They even showed us some footage that was just now being processed! It was one of the coolest things I have ever done and we planned to shoot in their studio tomorrow! I really can’t wait! We went back to NIA and organized all of our goodies and then we went back to the dorms.

Day 18 (Models Galore)

Wednesday was a day of fun… not really. All we did was rip video footage off of the camera and work on it. It took me forever to get all of the footage off of the camera. Then we went to go get our picture taken with a plane. It was awesome because we all got to dress up in flight suits! Then we went to lunch and it was off to the model shop for us. We got to see a ton of stuff at the model shop. We were taught how they make it and got to have samples of a bunch of different stuff. I absolutely loved it there because everything there reminded me of robotics. They use servos and CIM motors on their models. I couldn’t believe that I was seeing things that I would work with every day back at home. After the model shop we went back to NIA and finished up our final script. Then it was time to head back to the dorm.

Day 17 (More interviews)

Tuesday was another day of interviewing. We interviewed Nick first. He talked a lot about his project which was pretty cool and then we went back to NIA. We were planning to interview Lara after lunch. We hung out at NIA till then and I worked on taking off all the video footage I could from the previous tapes. At 10:15 we went over to where Nolan worked and got to see a lunar habitat. A lot happened and all in all Wesley made the habitat deflate while we were inside. Next we went to lunch and then headed over to Lara’s work place. It was pretty cool. She gets to burn things all day which would be awesome. Then Jon and I split up. I went back to NIA where I worked on our clips and started to work on the intro to our movie. We also worked on our research paper periodically throughout the day. Soon enough it was time to go back to the dorm.

Day 16 (The Interviews Begin)

We went to work and, today was the first day of our interviews of our fellow students. But, at 9 AM we had our second interview with Dr. Bushnell because the first did not have audio. We went to his office and he jokingly gave us a hard time about having to do the interview a second time. We did the interview which was just as long as the first and just as informational. After we headed over to Enrique’s work place and interviewed him. His project is really cool because he gets to work with an air traffic control program and write his own algorithms. I wish I could do that! We headed back to NIA and worked for a bit. After we headed to lunch and waited for Jake and Greg to get there. It turned out that they went out to lunch so we wasted a bunch of time sitting there. After lunch we went to Wesley and Sam’s work place. The interview took five minutes and we sat and chatted for a bit. Then Jake and Greg called and told us that they were back. We headed over to their office and then they massively failed at their interview (See face book videos for more info). Jon got really mad about how much they weren’t prepared and then we headed over to Nolan’s work place. We stayed there for a bit, interviewed him and his mentor and then chilled for a bit. Then we headed back to NIA where we stayed for about 30 minutes and then left to pick everyone else up.

Day 13, 14, + 15 (The Fourth and So Much More)

Today was the Fourth of July! We got to sleep and/or stay in our rooms till 11. Then at 11 we went to the mall for lunch. At the mall Lauren Nick and I went to Quiznos. Then we walked around and we went to Spencer’s and bought an awesome strobe light for our rave tonight! We walked around and I bought my sister a webkinz and a poster of the jonas brothers. We had to meet up at 1 and then we headed back to the dorm. Then we chilled for a bit and decided to go to play mini golf. We spent 45 minutes out to the mini golf place and it wasn’t open. So we went back and went bowling. Then had another massive rave and partied.

Saturday and Sunday

Saturday was water country which consisted of bad food, too much chlorine and a pretty bad sunburn

Sunday was parent visiting day... enough said.

Day 12 (The Play)

My day started off with me typing up questions for the interview that I had at 9:00 AM. I was really nervous and was hoping that I wasn’t going to mess anything up. Once we dropped everyone off in their designated place we headed back to NIA where we picked up all of our camera equipment. We got to the NASA center and we realized that we had no idea where this building was. We got out and asked at headquarters.
We got there at about 8:55 and started setting up all of our camera stuff. That’s when we realized that we didn’t bring the microphones with us. Jon ran to the car and they were not in there. We decided to do the interview anyways because we thought that the camera would have its own microphone. It turns out that it didn’t so we did a 30 minute interview with no audio on film. Once we got back and realized that we did it without sound we got really mad at ourselves at first and then decided to e-mail Mr. Bushnell and ask for another interview and explain what happened. He was very kind about it and said to be there at 9 AM on Monday.
Soon enough it was lunch and we were off. When we got back from lunch we didn’t have much to work on because the movie files that were sent to us by the producers did not work on the pinnacle software and we couldn’t make any clips from the interview. I started working on my progress report.
Jake Greg and Lara came back to NIA with us and we all worked on our research papers and progress reports but also had fun at the same time. Our research paper is done so I am finished with all my work for this week.
When we got back to the dorm I immediately got changed because we were going to go and see Taming of the Shrew at William and Mary. We had dinner and then left at 6 30 for the play. We went to the play and it was one of the best plays I have ever seen! The actors were amazing and I had never actually seen and/or read The Taming of the Shrew. I had only seen Kiss Me Kate which was nothing like the play at all. After the play it was already 11 o’clock and curfew was at 11 so we drove home. I fell asleep in the car but when I woke up in the car it was really really smoky outside because the wind had blown the Carolina fire smoke in our direction. It smelled really bad and I had a hard time falling asleep.