Let's do it, let's send Cordero into space!    Via a high altitude balloon (HAB), aka, a weather balloon.

We too shall 'dare mighty things', and follow the footsteps of Perseverance, if only for the first 80,000 feet.

How, what, when, where???  Sign up and/or ask your questions here, and engage in Cordero's biggest endeavor yet!

(photo courtesy of www.usi.edu)

Tune in live, today, (https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive), and join NASA and the world on the nail-biting experience of the “7-minutes of terror” as Perseverance enters into Mar's atmosphere and performs a series of precise acrobatic sequences to safely touch down onto the Martian surface!

[2:15 p.m.—Live coverage leading up to the rover's landing at ~3:55 p.m.]

Join us TONIGHT for an astronomy night in the park, as we gather to look to the skies and celebrate the near completion of Perseverance’s 7+ months journey to Mars.  Weather cooperating, we’ll set out telescopes to look at the crescent moon, and have light activities for a socially distant gathering to ring in the landing of Perseverance.

Hamilton Park, 2/17, 5-7pm.

Join PTA STEAM Committee on Oct.14th and explore "Mars at Opposition", a moment when Earth and Mars are closest in orbital proximity to one another. View Mars at its biggest and brightest, and ready yourselves to take the shortest route to this red neighboring planet. 

Oppositions of Mars happen about every 26 months. That makes sense because Earth takes a year to orbit the sun, and Mars takes about two years.  However, due to an off-centered and elliptical orbital path, extra-close opposition happens every 15-17 years.  So if you miss this event, you can catch it again in...2035!  Read more about it.

Last year's theme was "SPACE", where we boldly set our vision to explore beyond the realms of Earth.  We executed "Into the Human-verse", "Rise of Artemis", supported the Cor-bots, and initiated Team Artemis, Cordero's first rocket club.

This year, we continue the mission into space with Perseverance!  An homage to NASA's latest rover sent to Mars, as well as an homage to everyone's talented endurance of the difficult times we're all challenged with during this unprecedented pandemic.  For the love of science, we will pave on, we will endure, we will overcome, and we will persevere!  Join us, this year, on our journey through PERSEVERANCE.

Cordero PS#37 doing various rocket test launches and debuts the school's first rocket club, Team Artemis! 

The dawning of a new rise has begun!  "Rise of Artemis" highlights Cordero's (and Jersey City's) first ever rocket club, Artemis, as well as pay homage to NASA's Artemis program, a "first woman, next man on the moon" follow-up program from Apollo that was 50 years in the waiting and simply 50 years too long. 

9/2/19:  Pre-mission test launch.  All systems check during a camera mounted test launch in Hamilton Park.  See video.

Join us as we celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing with a viewing of the moon at the Apollo 11 landing site.  Build a rocket, and compete in our very own space race!

7/31/19:  Another astro-space experience to retell the greatest Space Race story ever had.

7/10/19:  Moon viewing and rocket launching at Hamilton Park's Farmer Market.

Big thanks to Hamilton Park Neighborhood Assoc (HPNA) for their support!

Parents of Class 103 (2018) started the Anderson Teacher Science Grant to honor Ms. Anderson’s retirement and her 43 years of service.  The grant is awarded to teachers to help fund their science classroom projects and promote the love of science, just as Mrs. Anderson did in and out of her classroom.   See also the chick-cam projects below.  Please consider making a donation here.