July 18

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ July 18

School is where we encounter both friends and foes, where imagination is unleashed and misunderstanding brought to ground.
But it is also a place in which yawns are stifled and initials scratched on desktops, where milk money is collected and recess lines are formed.
~P.W. Jackson, Life in Classrooms

Children Digital Games MPrice

 


 

                                                         References

Jackson, P.W. (1968). Life in classrooms. Holt, Rinehart & Winston.

 


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June 14

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ June 13

 

Discipline Quote

Discipline is choosing what you want most

over what you want now.

(Kobe Bryant woke up at 4AM for 20 years. Not because he loved mornings but because he loved winning more than he loved sleep.) Quote Attributed to President Abraham Lincoln

 

Image Source:
https://www.lovethispic.com/image/443127/discipline-is-choosing-between-what-you-want-now-and-what-you-want-most.

 


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May 22

Weekend Ed Quote May 22, 2026

 “Games are fundamentally about meaningful interaction. The purpose of building this mental model is to enable the player to make decisions in the pursuit of achieving some goal…” ~Mark Sellers, 1st MMORPG designer

Games Origami Design Teague

Teague & Deepai.org, 2026

 

 

Mike Sellers was an award-winning game designer & Professor best known as the co-creator & lead designer of Meridian 59 (1996), which is widely recognized as the first 3D massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).

Full Quote featured by Professor Mark(Danger)Chen: markdangerchen.net/2014/02/23/a-n

Image Source: Teague, H and Deepai.org (2026). [Large Language Model.] Deepai image generator prompt, “Please Generate a word cloud in origami design using beige tones with the word games and game repeated”  http://DeepAI.org

 

 


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April 10

Weekend Ed. Quote ~ April 10

“Today belongs to the engineers and technicians who touched this machine, and it does, and their work was good.” ~ Amit Kshatriya, NASA Associate Administrator, April 10, 2026 

We celebrate the successful splash down of the Artemis II Orion capsule Friday night!

Artemis II Splash Down

Photo shared by Beth ODell

Context of the Quote:

  • Mission: Artemis II, which concluded with a splashdown of the Orion capsule in the Pacific Ocean at 5:07pm, Pacific Time.
  • Significance: Acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy announced the selection of Kshatriya as associate administrator in a statement on September 3, 2025. Kshatriya’s quote was meant to honor the welders at Michoud, technicians at Kennedy Space Center, and Engineers who built and prepared the Orion spacecraft and SLS rocket.
  • Supporting Quote: “The path to the lunar surface is open, but the work ahead is greater than the work behind us,” Kshatriya added, looking forward to the future Artemis III mission. 
  • In Your Classroom: Consider presenting and discussing this quote with your students.
  • STEAM curriculum options: Using your favorite Search Engine. Here is one link with STEAM-Artemis resource options- https://duckduckgo.com/?q=STEAM+curriculum+for+Artemis+II&t=iphone&ia=web

                                                                               References

Edwards, B. (2026, April 10). Artemis II astronauts splash down after NASA moon flyby. Florida Today. https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2026/04/10/artemis-ii-astronauts-splash-down-after-nasas-mission-around-the-moon/89524026007/

Archived Link: https://web.archive.org/web/20260411212343/https://www.floridatoday.com/story/tech/science/space/2026/04/10/artemis-ii-astronauts-splash-down-after-nasas-mission-around-the-moon/89524026007/

 

 


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