The River City Project: Part I

This is the first in a series of posts on the River City Project born out of Harvard University's Graduate School of Education.  The River City Project has been around for a number of years now as a research project studying scientific inquiry and 21st century skills in middle school students.  During the project, teams of students are immersed as "scientists-in-training" within a 3D multi-user virtual environment (MUVE) with the task of investigating and design experiments around diseases that are plaguing the city's residents. 

This is a story four years in the making...

Next Monday, Gene Gordon, a physics teacher at Fairport High School and NASA Fellow, will embark on a "dream come true" to witness first hand the first images from unknown regions of the planet Mercury.  Gene will be sitting amongst NASA scientists as the MESSENGER spacecraft takes its extraordinary path to orbit Mercury and grab images and information from the closest planet to the Sun.  

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