Hi friends, Many of you are enjoying the school break here in South Africa and spring break in the northern hemisphere. With Ramadan, Passover and Easter all coinciding, enjoy this time with your loved ones. We are very involved with planning for the second term, our online classes and of course the very exciting space tour! LIVING MATHS SPACE TOUR 2023 3 Cape Town venues and 2 Joburg Venues confirmed After the sold out events with Prof Arthur Benjamin the Mathemagician and Janet Ivey from Janet's Planet in March, we are delighted to announce that for the Living Maths Space Tour of 2023 we have retired NASA Astronaut, Nicole Stott arriving in South Africa in May. This will be a high profile event and will be on most radio and TV stations as well as in the newspapers and on Social Media. We are just giving you a heads up the three Cape Town venues and the 2 Gauteng venues are now live on Livingmaths.com and you will be able to get tickets before the hype. We have shifted the presentation a little earlier so that the junior space fans can enjoy the show. There will be a few prizes for best dressed Space-themed. Bring your cellphone with as there will be a fun Kahoot quiz at the end and the top three participants will each win a cool prize. You can book tickets here: https://www.livingmaths.com/?page_id=2078 Nicole Stott is an Astronaut, an Author, an Artist and an Aquanaut. She is flown to space twice and she has done a space walk. She is excited about coming out to South Africa! ONLINE CLASSES Our Second online Cycle will be starting up for students from K-9: Please note that the classes will take place on Thursdays and NOT Wednesdays. Due to an increase in our online activities for schools around the world, we have made this Cycle only 4 weeks long. We will commence Cycle 2 Thursday 13 April and it will come to an end on Thursday 4 May 2023. This will only be a 4-week cycle. For more information go to livingmaths.com Online classes. Classes are filling quickly. One week left to register. Online INTERVIEWS coming up in preparation for the Humans to Mars Summit 7 April 7pm SA time Sign up here to take part: https://forms.gle/nQcrjuY2rQCRmvwq9 Dr Lori Glaze. Dr. Lori Glaze is the Director of NASA's Science Mission Directorate's Planetary Science Division. Planetary Science is focused on space flight missions and scientific research that address fundamental questions of solar system formation and evolution, including understanding planetary environments that can (or could have in the past) support life. Before coming to NASA Headquarters, Dr. Glaze served as the chief of the Planetary Geology, Geophysics and Geochemistry Laboratory at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, and as the Deputy Director of Goddard's Solar System Exploration Division. Her research interests include physical processes in terrestrial and planetary volcanology, atmospheric transport and diffusion processes, and geologic mass movements. Her work focuses on data analysis and theoretical modeling of surface processes on all the terrestrial solar system bodies, particularly the Earth, Venus, Mars, the Moon, and Io. She develops statistical, analytical, and data management methods in support of physical process modeling and develops applications of diverse sets of terrestrial and planetary remote sensing data. Dr. Glaze was a member of the Inner Planets Panel for the 2013-2022 Decadal Survey (Visions and Voyages) and had a role on the Executive Committee of NASA's Venus Exploration Analysis Group (VEXAG) for several years, serving as the group's Chair from 2013-2017. Dr. Glaze was a member of the Planetary Science Subcommittee from 2011 to 2013. She has been involved with many NASA-sponsored Venus mission concept formulation studies, including as a member of the Venus Flagship Science and Technology Definition Team (2009), as Science Champion for the Venus Mobile Explorer (2010), and Co-Science Champion for the Venus Intrepid Tessera Lander (2010). Until her move to Headquarters, she also was the Principal Investigator of the Deep Atmosphere Investigation of Noble gases, Chemistry, and Imaging (DAVINCI). Dr. Glaze was born in Texas. She graduated from the University of Texas, Arlington with a BA and MS in Physics. She received a PhD in Environmental Science from Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. She has also previously worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and at Proxemy Research, as Vice President and Senior Research Scientist. 10 April 6pm SA time Sign up here to take part: https://forms.gle/ufF9jY2Lj5tfAc1w6 Dr Hoppy Price Humphrey "Hoppy" Price is Chief Engineer of NASA's robotic Mars Exploration Program. He was the architect of the JPL minimal architecture for humans to Mars. Hoppy was the Project System Engineer for the GRAIL mission to map the gravity field of the Moon and was the Configuration Engineer for the Cassini Saturn orbiter mission. He was the Flight System Engineer for the Prometheus/JIMO Phase A project and was supervisor of the systems engineering group for Entry, Descent, and Landing on the Mars Exploration Rovers project. He has led and participated in many formulation studies of spacecraft and advanced propulsion systems including Mars Sample Return, interstellar missions, solar sails, and fusion rockets. Hoppy has B.S. in Engineering Science and M.S. in Nuclear Engineering degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. We are just waiting confirmation for an interview with Dr Sian Proctor - watch this space. If you like Minecraft and competitions then check this out <https://www.faa.gov/airport-design-challenge?fbclid=IwAR1CKle5o--5R-Tfpzbw3 aS9Q03NQJq3-f9R65PD_wdahHzLJeC7QaDk2_o> https://www.faa.gov/airport-design-challenge What You Can Expect Small teams of students work together to learn about their local airport and to complete development tasks in Minecraft Organized lesson plans covering topics from airport layout, pavement, lighting, structures, and innovative growth Collaborative work between students, parents, and teachers performed in a virtual environment And while we are at it, we have a fabulous competition on offer: This has been extended Are you or anyone you know a K-12 student? Do you have some great ideas for how humans can live and thrive on Mars? We challenge YOU to participate in The Mars Innovation Challenge! This is a solo or team-based challenge open to all students all over the world in K-12, ages 5-18! Register by submitting your entry and solve a real-world problem faced by future explorers to Mars and present an innovation to help problem solve for humans surviving, living, and thriving on Mars. All eligible teams will receive an Explore Mars Completion Certificate and have their presentations shared on our social media platforms and will be invited to attend the 2023 Human to Mars Submit! The overall (1st place) winner (individual/team) of the Mars Innovation Challenge will receive a cash award of $2400* and an invitation* for the student/team and one chaperone to present their winning Mars Innovation Challenge Solution in person at the 2023 Humans to Mars Summit Submissions are open until 24th of April! <https://www.exploremars.org/Mars-Innovation-Challenge/> https://www.exploremars.org/Mars-Innovation-Challenge/ See you at the shows! Mr S and the Living Maths Team. 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