"Oversky" - Bucuresti, B

Elevii Scolii cu Clasele I-VIII Nr. 22 "Mexic" din Bucuresti, coordonati de doamna profesoara de fizica Florentina Iofciu, au participat la evenimentul "Oversky" dedicat Saptamanii Mondiale a Spatiului Cosmic. Elevii au construit rachetomodele si avioane din materiale reciclabile, si-au imbogatit cunostintele despre Sistemul Solar, au desenat o emblema si au afisat prezentari powerpoint dedicate spatiului.

The students from School No 22 "Mexic" from Bucharest, coordinated by their Physics teacher, Florentina Iofciu, contributed to the "Oversky" event dedicated to the World Space Week. They built rocket and plane models from recyclable materials, enriched their knowledge about our Solar System ,drew a mission patch, and made power point presentations related to space.

As narrated on the event's blog, http://www.oversky22.blogspot.com/:

"In our school students inspired by Physics teacher Florentina IOFCIU celebrated WORLD SPACE WEEK 2008. It was a lot of fun but also instructing! We used some materials offered by our sponsors: OSA kit for optic experiments from Optical Society of America with the help of dr. Dan Sporea , director of CSET -Center of Science Education and Training -IFIN Magurele; NASA Toys in Space and other e-tools from Space Academy for Educators2007 -Honeywell- Space Camp and Rocket Center in Huntsville Alabama; Tools from Theree Rivers College; Some parents get involved a lot, as we have in the Physics Lab an exhibition with rockets, space station models , land rovers, future towns models and paintings, all made by recycling materials. Robert Constantin helped by his father, together with his mates Marin Constantin, Alex Cristea and Laurentiu Marin -grade VI.B made a paper rocket about 1,8 m high. Andrei Serpoi from VI.A made a bubble rocket and launched it in the company of his classmates . Students interested in rocketry : Andreea Cazacu; Alexandra Spataru;Cristina Mihailescu,Cosmin Nistor,Marian Nita (grade VI.A)Diana Boboc, Ruxandra Zaharia,Cristian Vasilache, Valentin Tecuceanu,Ionut Timpuriu(grade VI.B);Catalin Dumitru(grade VI.C);Dorel Calina,Valentin Czari,Costel Gheorghe,Marian Raduc, Victor Ion,Marian Cristea, Sorin Ungureanu,Andreea Iacob, Olga Racheru,(grade VII.A) Robert Dulgheru(grade VII.B);Petru Scarlat, Adrian Boghean (grade VIII.A).
Models "Cities of the future" made by paper, plastic, PET and other recyclabe materials was realised by : Alexandra Brandusa, Catalin Bucur, Bogdan Codreanu(grade VI.A),Dan Muresan Rzvan Simion (grade VI.C),Violeta Bordeianu (grade VII.A)
Alina Pisica (grade VI.A) presented some news about "Jo The Pizza Planet" and some paintings inspired by NASA pictures. Sara Barbu (grade VI.B) made a poster about Space helped by her mother Lilian Orban Tunbecki (grade VII.B) made a portofolio about Jupiter.
Power Point presentations made :
Adrian Ghita grade VII.B "The Moon";
Diana Pentelidis , Olimpia Gantzer grade VIII.A "Mars"
Alexandra Adamache, Razvan Soare grade VIII.A " The Earth"
Mihai Constantinescu, Iuliana Trifu, Christian Minculescu , Georgiana Catana grade VIII.A "Our Solar System" a html info tool to be used in the classroom .
It was a very interesting experience : students, teacher and parents worked as a team ,everybody had a good time. We are looking forward for the next year World Space Week!"