Luke Gustafson, Star Acers Artist and Co-Founder, will be speaking on the panel " Community Partnerships in Arts and Science Education" at the ArtsSmarts 2011 Knowledge Exchange.
We are honoured to be invited.
t’s a two-day affair (Monday, October 31st – Tuesday, November 1st) that promises to be very interesting: 21 sessions, and 80+ innovators from across North America whose expertise includes education, neuroscience, art and technology. We’ll be putting together interactive sessions with the goal of letting participants collaborate to reimagine the education system.
Hope to see you there!
We are honoured to add the name of real world astronaut David Saint-Jacques to our roster of supporters!
Dr. Saint-Jacques first mission will be as an auqanaut aboard Aquarius underwater laboratory during the NEEMO 15 Mission starting mid-October 2011.
This training is intended to inform future manned missions to asteroids!
David Saint-Jacques
Aquarius Underwater Laboratory
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Colonel Chris Hadfield and Major Jeremy Hansen, two of Canada's real life astronauts, have given the thumbs up for Star Acers! We are thrilled to have their names and likeness incorporated into our comic.
Colonel Hadfield was the first Canadian to do an EVA space walk. It was to install the Canadarm2 on the International Space Station (ISS). Additionally NASA has announced that Colonel Hadfield will become the first Canadian commander of the ISS in December 2012! An honour for Colonel Hadfield and Canada as well.
Colonel Chris Hadfield
Major Jeremy Hansen was one of two Canadians finalists during the 2009 astronaut recruitment campaign. Major Hansen is training for his first mission right now!
Major Jeremy Hansen
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Here is a rough positioning of the educators, schools and districts we are collecting data from and will be beta testing Star Acers with this coming fall! It's an incredible thing to see so many Canadians, across the entire country, who are lending a hand in the creation of Star Acers.
Map of Beta Participants
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This is a repost of our trailer so that it's at the top of the blog. So feel free to click and check it out! It's 30 seconds of Star Acer extravaganza.
Tomorrow is the CSA Educators' Space Conference Aug 11th! And Star Acers is presenting to the 140 educators present! We are so honoured to have been invited and to be presenting to Canada's space and tech savvy professionals.
We are very pleased to be presenting StarAcers, the coolest comic-website for kids, at the upcoming CSA Educators' Space Conference Aug 11th! Below is our promotional package that will be in the hands of the 140 Canadian educators there. We're very excited to be taking part in this conference and are grateful to have been invited.
front page
back page
Rebel alliance, business cards and magnets!
145 copies of promotional package!
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I feel it's important to update the blog with our progress because the progress is hard won. Each page of the comic has it's own lengthy life. It goes from a thumbnail sketch to a roughed out page to this rendered page, and from there it will be colored and polished. Of course before all that is the concept and the script! This page was relatively easy to rough out but has developed into something more than the meeting of the main characters, it is now a cool fact baring exchange of information and wit!
Also we have added a new member to the Star Acers team. Yukon King the space dog! Perhaps some of his genes are those of Laika the first dog in space. Laika was sent up in the Russian- Sputnik 2 in 1957. It was the second ever space ship to orbit the earth. It`s only fitting that the latest, greatest member of our space team should be a dog...
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Here we begin to dive into the heart of the Alpha comic book, our young heroes emerging as individuals with hopes and dreams... and even doubts.
Most astronaut candidates are also pilots, so each of our characters flies a distinct Canadian aircraft. Amelia flies a Diamond Twin Star, a modern and wonderfully refined design. Ethan flies a DeHavilland Beaver bush plane which plays a large roll in providing access to the north and wilderness of Canada. Logan flies an F35 in the Canadian Air Force, a very diverse and powerful jet with short distance takeoff and vertical takeoff.
Thought i'd post this most recently completed page!
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Here`s a quick graphic test of the front page of the website!