Okay, so first let me tell you that the Fifth Grade Gifted Program of Diplomat Elementary School brought home the Second Prize in the Celebrate Literacy, Florida competition. The prize is $500 to spend on literacy material for the school. So that is pretty cool, right?
Cooler still, is the location picked for the ceremony—The Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex.
Here is a picture of two of my grandkids with Astronaut Marcos Cesar Pontes who holds the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Brazilian Air Force. He is an experienced jet pilot and studied Aeronautical Engineering in the Instituto Technologico de Aeronautica. He fulfilled his lifelong dream of becoming an astronaut and spent a week on the International Space Station in 2006.
He spoke to the nearly two hundred children present and inspired them with his personal story. When he was a child he wanted to go into space. He did not allow the fact that he was poor and lived in Brazil, a country that did not have a space program, stop him from aspiring to his goal. He studied hard, grew up, joined the Brazilian Air Force, became a pilot and continued to work hard and learn about space travel and technology.
Fortunately the literacy ceremony started early and was short and sweet, so we got to spend time exploring the Visitor’s Center
Barely an hour southeast of Disney World, the Space Center is an absolutely not to be missed stop when you take your next “let’s get a little sunshine” vacation. You will feel an enormous amount of pride in what the human race has accomplished in space exploration, and it doesn’t take long to realize what insignificant specs we humans are in the grand scheme of the Universe.
Terrie
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