Vickie Liou

Ridgeland, MS – Over the past four weeks, scholars in SR1’s C.O.O.L.™ Zone program explored storytelling, animation, and computer programming through Scratch-based courses designed for both elementary and secondary scholars.

C.O.O.L. ᵀᴹ Time Capsule: This Month in History — January Written by: Vickie Liou On January 3, 2019, China made history by becoming the first country to successfully land a spacecraft on the far side of the Moon—a place no spacecraft had ever safely landed before. Figure 1. The location of China on the world map. (Image created with MapChart) Why had no one done this until then? It starts with a simple fact about the Moon. Did you know that we only ever see one side of the Moon from Earth?...