So -- whether you are, know or have any kids -- or are just a kid at heart, do point their browsers, and yours -- to the open voting at NASA this week. There are nine finalist names to choose from. . . and everyone, young and old, is welcome to vote -- at that link.
I've posted some more background below, from the latest NASA 2020 Mars rover project; do go read it all:
. . . .The nine finalists (submission name, grade level, student name and state) are:
◙ Endurance, K-4, Oliver Jacobs of Virginia [Ed. Nota Bene -- my personal vote!]
◙ Tenacity, K-4, Eamon Reilly of Pennsylvania
◙ Promise, K-4, Amira Shanshiry of Massachusetts
◙ Perseverance, 5-8, Alexander Mather of Virginia
◙ Vision, 5-8, Hadley Green of Mississippi
◙ Clarity, 5-8, Nora Benitez of California
◙ Ingenuity, 9-12, Vaneeza Rupani of Alabama
◙ Fortitude, 9-12, Anthony Yoon of Oklahoma
◙ Courage, 9-12, Tori Gray of Louisiana
The poll. . . will remain open through Jan. 27 until 9 p.m. PST (midnight EST). The results of the poll will be a consideration in the final naming selection. . . .
Onward, grinning -- in spite of the swirling white snows here. . . . Be excellent to all the school kids you meet -- encourage a sense of genuine wonder, coupled to solid scientific analysis, when it comes to all matters STEM.
We, collectively, need this next generation of scientists more than we perhaps ever have [note here particularly, the heavy Turkey-, India- and Russia-domiciled participation on the naming heatmap, above right -- this is of course, wonderful, but suggestive of strongly competitive academic programs leveraging our own science initiatives. . .], to step forward -- since the current administration is ignorantly and malevolently banning. . . the best and brightest, from many of the best math havens the world over, on purely pernicious discriminatory grounds — and intentionally, so. We cannot fall behind, here -- or we lose these same kids' futures.
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