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Dr. Ashiety Trebi-Ollennu, a senior member o f the engineering s ta ffa i NASA and a member o f the
spacecraft engineering team, explains how he is using images and data from the Spirit Rover.
PHOTOS COURTESY NASA/JPL
W hile M ars rovers Spirit and
Shonte W right, a therm al sys tunity to dem onstrate kn o w l
O p portunity are exp lo rin g the tem s eng in eer, designed some edge, but to learn m ore about
surface o f the Red Planet, a team o f the heaters that allow the science and en gineering as it
o f scien tists including several rov ers to survive and operate applies to space ex p lo ra tio n ,”
A frican-A m erican eng in eers is on the surface o f M ars.
she said.
tra c k in g th e ir m issio n from
“T his project has provided
Dr. A sh itey T rebi-O llennu
home.
all o f us with not only an o p p o r w orks w ith N A S A ’s R obotics
Shonte Wright is one o f several African-American engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion
Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif, working on the Mars Exploration Rover Mission.
elude, Kobie Boykins, a mechani-
cal engineer who was on the team
that designed and tested the so-
lar panels that give pow er to the
rovers, and Dr. Edward Tunstel, a
senior robotics engineers and a
m em ber o f the team responsible
for navigating the rovers.
Jeff Grads Appear on National TV
The entire nation has witnessed 1,400 dancers. He continues to
some successful Jefferson High pursue his dance education and
School graduates on stage and on career with different professional
basketball courts in recent days.
dance com panies on the East
Jont6 Moaning ( ‘01) danced with C oast.
Janet Jackson during halftime of
"Jonte has been able to move
the Super Bowl. Aaron M ile sfO l), into such success because of the
Michael Lee (‘01), Brandon Lincoln g reat train ing he received at
(02), and Thomas Gardner ( ‘03) Jefferson,"said his mother Louise
appeared in nationally televised Moaning.
college basketball games.
Basketball players MilesandLee
M oaning earned his place to are playing at the University of
dance with Jackson in an open Kansas, Lincoln at the University
audition that attracted more than of Oregon, and Gardner at the Uni-
versity o f Missouri.
“We are proud of these alums
and the hundreds o f others who
have graduated from Jefferson
r e c e n tly . T h e y sh o w e d up,
worked hard and had fun here so
they were well prepared to follow
their dreams and become produc
tive members o f our society. And
w e’re proud o f the faculty and
staff who guided these young
people through their high school
years,” said Jefferson Principal
Larry D. Dashiell.
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Dan Schuster and Nancy Goering (from left), coaches and engineers for the Ockley Green Dragon
Masters, are joined by team members Abner Bastida, 7th grade; Trinidad Alvarez; high school
mentor; Ruben Francisco, 8ih grade; David Child, coach and engineer; Claudia Alvarez, 8th grade;
and Ner Bastida, 7th grade. Dragon Master Timothy Ong o f the 8th grade is not pictured.
North Portland School Explores Mars
When N A SA 's Spirit rover
reached out with its robotic arm
and examined a patch of Martian
soil with a microscope, some of
Oregon’s brightest and most ad
venturous students did almost the
same thing.
Students from Ockley Green
Middle School, 6031 N. Montana,
and others competed in their tasks
with a simulated Martian land-
scape in the gym at Liberty High
School in Hillsboro with a LEGO
robot they designed and bui It them
selves.
Seventy-seven teams from Or
egon, Southwest Washington and
Northwest California participated
in the tournament.
The students’ LEGO robot rover
simulated travel in Gusev Crater on
the Martian surface to compete for
points based on the number of mis
sions completed. Robots attempted
to dock habitation modules, collect
ice cores, launch a Mars Ascent
Vehicle and much more.
“This is truly an accomplish
ment that reflects individual initia
tive and teamwork,” said Bruce
Schafer, Chair of the Oregon Ro
botics Tournament and Outreach
Program.
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