EDITORIAL: Wallingford explores a new way of learning | Opinion - Meriden Record-Journal

There’s a new world of learning out there, and the Wallingford school system is exploring it by record-journal.com.

This image made available by NASA shows the planet Mars. This composite photo was created from over 100 images of Mars taken by Viking Orbiters in the 1970s. In our solar system family, Mars is Earth’s next-of-kin, the next-door relative that has captivated humans for millennia. The attraction is sure to grow on Monday, Nov. 26 with the arrival of a NASA lander named InSight.
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Mary G. Fritz School has launched itself into the future with a new science center that will include a simulated Mars mission. Through the new center, which is scheduled to be completed in January 2021, the school system will partner with the Victorian Space Science Education Centre in Strathmore, Australia, to provide a place where young students can build skills in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics...

Vaster still are the distances involved in the virtual exploration of Mars that the center will enable. But other, more down-to-earth subjects such as hands-on projects in chemistry, bioscience, astronomy, coding, robotics, computational and algorithmic thinking will also be involved. There will also be a space for the robotics team, Menzo said.
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Source: Meriden Record-Journal