Today, we started our second round of studios. The two studios are space mining and film fiction. Here is a summary of day 1 at Space Mining by our student Kris Bronner: The gray, rainy morning in no way reflected the first half of the day of the Space Mining Studio. A colorful illustration started the studio as we went through The Illustrated Guide to a Ph.D. The reason, David explained, was to demonstrate that Ph.Ds., such as himself, are very knowledgeable in specific topics, but that they cannot answer everything! He noted, at least, that It was also very a very interesting perspective on the evolution of ones knowledge throughout their life. Following the demonstration, we dove right into a synopsis of the forthcoming studio. During the briefing we all researched ideas for which our space mission would accomplish (examples: which elements we wanted to bring back, which asteroids to visit, etc.). The overview subsequently led us into a focused discussion of the force known as gravity. We examined the gravity mathematically, visually (with

Propulsion led us to the black board and the introduction of the water-rocket project. Later this week, we are going to be launching our own water rockets, seeing how our knew knowledge will help us understand how to make a more efficient Space Mission. David illustrated the two phases of a spaceship propulsion (in this case, a water-rocket), being from the water/pressure, and then jettison of the remaining water. As a group, we put our physics knowledge together to create a set of equations to estimate the rockets final height and time (in phase two).