Some Quick Facts About
Mrs. Robinson

I have been teaching for twenty-five years, the last eighteen here at Hall Elementary.  Prior to moving to Morgan county, I lived in northern Indiana in a small community in Jasper county.  There I taught 6th grade science at Kankakee Valley Middle School.

I received my bachelors degree in education from Indiana State University and my masters in education from Purdue University.  I continue my lifelong learning by taking classes in gifted education, space education, as well as in technology education.

For many summers I taught at the Children's Museum in Indianapolis at their summer camp called SpaceQuest as well as being the director of Aerospace Explorers camp held at Butler University, sponsored through the Children's Museum and the National Space Foundation.

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2001- a Space Odyssey

The 2001 year was a great one for me!   I was chosen by the Lt. Governor to be Indiana's representative at the Space Educator's conference held in Colorado in February. I spent four days at space workshops, listening to NASA and Air Force personnel and getting an inside tour of NORAD.   Below is a picture taken at the conference of America's first African-American astronaut, Guy Bluford and myself.
 
 

Then in July I was chosen by West Central Joint Services to attend Educators's Space Camp in Florida.  I spent a week at Cape Kennedy with other teachers from around the world , got to train like the astronauts do, perform space missions and tour the Kennedy Space Center.  Probably the most exciting thing was meeting four more astronauts!  We got to meet Story Musgrave, an 8 time shuttle astronaut who made us feel that we were the celebrities, not him.

Then, another evening, we were privileged to be able to meet the next crew for the International Space Station.  They just blasted off for the space station on August 10 and will spend three months in space.  Two of the gentlemen are Russians, along with Commander Frank Culbertson, a former shuttle astronaut.

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