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Y.E.S.

: Readying for Launch

The Y.E.S. Project….short for Youth Educational Spacecraft Project… a Mobile Spaceship Classroom.

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What a Year, 2013, for the Spacecraft! We want to thank all who supported our flight and especially the Clark County School District in Las Vegas, Nevada. We SOOOOOOOOOO look forward to more journey’s in 2014~

click on the link below!

“I want to thank you for bringing your expertise, talents, and enthusiasm to Downtown Las Vegas and to
students in the Clark County School District.”

TY Dana Albany 2

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WE ARE GOING TO VEGAS!!

http://downtownproject.com/

Las Vegas is treating us so well!
Wow, what a gift to be able to share our work and ideas!
There are flying saucers, UFOs and aliens on hand to celebrate the landing of the Youth Educational Spaceship at Learning Village downtown with its otherworldly art installation and mobile classroom through Dec. 8 as part of the collaboration between Burning Man Project and Las Vegas’ Downtown Project. Kids also will love the robotics demonstrations that disguise the fact that they’re being educated.

http://www.vegasnews.com/106561/youth-educational-spaceship-project-lands-at-learning-village-in-downtown-las-vegas-nov-15-dec-8.html
http://www.lasvegasweekly.com/as-we-see-it/2013/nov/20/all-aboard-educational-spaceship-docks-downtown-lo/
http://www.lasvegassun.com/vegasdeluxe/2013/nov/15/celebrity-preview-ufc-167-bill-oreilly-nine-inch-n/

http://ticketcake.com/events/

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YOUTH EDUCATIONAL SPACESHIP PROJECT LANDS IN LAS VEGAS

ON NOVEMBER 15

Las Vegas, NV – The Youth Educational Spaceship (Y.E.S.)

project is landing in Las Vegas! Y.E.S. is a mobile spaceship

classroom built from repurposed and found objects by kids

from San Francisco’s Tenderloin and Hunters Point

neighborhoods. This collaborative art program for youth gives

them time and space to create, participate, and then exhibit

their work, while engaging children in hands-on experience

focusing on art and technology.

Please come join us for the opening celebration!

There will be spacecraft tours, a robotic BBQ, alien-themed

food and drink!

The celebration will be held from 6:00pm to 9:00pm.

All ages welcome and free of charge! The spacecraft’s mission

is a friendly ambassabor to teach and promote art,

creativity,science and peace.

Join us in welcoming this interactive spacecraft and learn

about what is in store for it’s month visit in Las Vegas and

opportunities to participate.

Y.E.S. will be open to the public at the Learning Village, 715

Fremont Street, starting Friday November 15, with a variety of

family-friendly programming including spaceship tours, mosaic

workshops with recycled materials, wiring demos and

interactive robotic demos, culminating in a closing ceremony

and children’s art show on December 8. For more information

about programming, please visit Learning Village, Ticket Cake.

https://ticketcake.com/venue

for a complete listing of all activities and dates.

visit

https://www.facebook.com/YouthEducationalSpacecraftProject.

for more

information.

NOVEMBER 2013

FRIDAY 15

Daytime
- 9th Bridge School 1st tour -Leading groups of 4 to 6 kids at a time
  - Working with Connie- to Coordinate with 9th Bridge School-We may bring the artist to the school with her supplies and have the parents bring the kids to the art piece for simplicity’s sake.

FRIDAY 15
- 6:00pm – 9:00pm Opening Celebration ( DTP / ZAPPOS / 9th BRIDGE KIDS & Families)
  - Spacecraft tours/All ages
    - “Robotic Alien Barbecue”?
    - “Alien Welcome Home” Party?
SATURDAY 16 (PUBLIC)
- 11:00am to 3:00pm
  - Spacecraft Community tours
  - Mosaic workshops
    - ( Downtown Rangers consulted will update them with final schedule)
SUNDAY 17 (PUBLIC)
- 11:00am to 3:00pm
  - Spacecraft Community tours
  - Mosaic workshops
    - ( Downtown Rangers consulted will update them with final schedule)
  - Recycled materials/Interactive Robotic Demos
MONDAY 18 – FRIDAY 22 (LOCAL SCHOOLS)
- 10:00am to 1:00pm (TIME to BE DECIDED by school reservations on TICKET CAKE)
  - Programming with local schools. (Hours are open to schools around the valley with reservations.)
  - Integration into 9th Bridge School, (contact to best schedule accordingly.)
    - Spacecraft Tours.
    - Recycled workshops
      - Mosaic workshops with recycled materials project- star or planet wall hanging per child/adult) to demonstrate how spacecraft was made collectively.
    - Robotic demonstrations and interaction led by Kal Spelletich.
    - Robot building demos
    - LED light lesson “Follow the Wire” box demonstration and interaction
THURSDAY 21 (BATTERIES INCLUDED GROUP)
- 4:30pm-6:00pm
  - 13-19 years old kids event is at the Kids trailer, then we have Catalyst speaker series in the Wow trailer from 6:00-8pm (community can come in at 6pm though).
  - - SUNDAY 24 (PUBLIC)
      - 11:00am to 2:00pm
        
        Mosaic workshops with recycled materials project- star or planet wall hanging per child/adult) to demonstrate how spacecraft was made collectively.
        
        Community spacecraft project.! . Parents and children team work.
    - MONDAY 25 – FRIDAY 29 Thanksgiving Holiday. Closed.
    DECEMBER 2013
    - MONDAY 2 – FRIDAY 6
      - 10:00am and 1:00pm (TBD re SCHOOLS)
        
        Local school programming. (available with reservations)
        
        Spacecraft tours/mosaic
        
        Recycled workshops
        
        LED light lesson “Follow the Wire” box demonstration and interaction and Wiring Demos
        
        (Project – star or planet wall hanging per child/adult ) to demonstrate how spacecraft was made collectively.
    SUNDAY 8 (PUBLIC)
    - 4:00pm-7:00pm
      - Closing Ceremony celebration and Children’s Art Show

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We land at the Exploratorium in San Francisco tomorrow/Monday August 12, 2013. The spaceship will be docked out front for the week culminating in classes on Saturday August 17.

WE ARE LIVE ON THE EMBARCADERO ALL WEEK!

PRESS:

http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/A-kids-space-travels-to-Burning-Man-and-beyond-4736153.php#photo-5018132

We are building a mobile spaceship classroom. This spaceship will be a spaceship/UFO classroom in the vein of a bookmobile. It will serve as a mobile platform for artists and craftspeople to educate and share virtually anywhere. The Spaceship will be designed and decorated by local children covered in an ever evolving lunar themed mosaic and design.

VIDEOS OF KIDS DESIGNING THE SPACESHIP!

SEE VIDEO HERE! https://vimeo.com/65572601

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Inside will be workstations emphasizing:
Video shooting and editing, mold making, fusing and blowing glass for exterior light portals and interior stations, mosaics, robotics (lunar rover, tele-robotic arm), electronics, building installations, carpentry, gardening, electric wiring, robotics, fixing things, water purification, video surveillance, electronic interfaces, scavenging for materials, cooking alternatives, solar power, lighting, remote control systems, art history, promoting and exhibiting your art.

Kids from the SF Boys and Girls Club learning about walking machines

Kids learning about Robotics.

Video of Dana Albany Explaining The Spaceship Concept

<p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/66771917″>Y.E.S. The Youth Education Spaceship Program</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/dchill”>David C. Hill</a> on <a href=”http://vimeo.com”>Vimeo</a>.</p>

We will recruit local and visiting artists.

portal

Inside, the windows and the main “bridge” will have educational videos with footage of the past,historical, ancient times…as well as outer space.

We will dock at schools, arts, science centers, playgrounds, you name it.. We will have an international docking station so that when our bay is open classes will spill out of the space ship onto playgrounds, gymnasiums, bookmobiles, sidewalks and the streets.

WE are looking for partners to help implement and launch us. We already have initial funding and support from Maker Faire, Black Rock Arts Foundation, The Exploratorium, Black Rock City LLC, Burning Man Project, The Crucible.

We have an Angel Investor! and are seeking further support so we can continue into the Fall/Spring 2014 school year. We are also seeking educational programs we can work with.

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