Diversity Event.

On Novemcer 3rd, 2011, I attended Clayton Anderson's presentation.  Clay, as he like to be called, was born in Omaha, Nebraska.  He recived his Masters in Areospace Engineering from Iowa State University in 1983.  From there he began work at the Johnson Space Center.  He spend a toal of 167 days in space on two trips.  His longest trip was his 5 month, or 152 days, in 2007. While there, he and his crew worked fixing the space station.  He was the appointed mission specialist on this trip where he preformed multiple space walks. He described their living habits as 60 minutes of light to 30 minutes of darkness. When reentering the atmosphere, two sonic booms can be heard. This is due to the length of the shuttle, which is 122 feet. Clay also talked about commercial fight possibly being availible in the near future.  TIme is unknown but they are shooting for the year 2016.

Hixson Award

Through all the schoarship I recieved last year, the Hixson Scholarship has meant the most to me.  It has and still is allowing me to focus on my school work reather than having a job and trying to pay for my tuition, thus taking time from my class work.  It is also benificial being a Hixson Scholar as they are there to help you get through college by offering one free tutor per a semester, a lab only for Hixson Scholars, and free printing.  It was also a deciding factor on weather or not I attended a four year college or a community college.  The Hixson award is also one of great honnor as only 100 Iowa senior recieve this award each year.  To be one of the 100 from 2011 is very special knowing that there were others that had also applied but didn't recive it.  I am also glad that I recived this award because of the friendships that I have made this far with other Hixson Scholars.  I'm sure these will be life long friendship that I would not of had without reciving this award.