Page 9 - Abacoa Community News - July '23

Abacoa, Page 9

National Night Out from page 1 o Indian Creek: Indian Creek Drive
West and East Indian Creek Drive/
o Set-N-Sun: Set-N-Sun Place/Loxahatchee River Road Central Boulevard; Indian Creek
o Tidewater: Tidewater Drive/Loxahatchee River Road Drive and East Indian Creek Drive/
o Woodland Estates: Loxahatchee River Road/Center Street Central Boulevard
o Holly Cove: Holly Cove Drive/Center Street o Egret Landing: Egret Landing
o Fernwood Creek: Warren Drive/Center Street Boulevard/Central Boulevard
o Greenwood Cove: Greenwood Drive/Center Street o Martinique: West Community
o Eastview Manor: Todd Street/Center Street, North Pennock Drive/Greenway Drive
Lane/Center Street, North Whitney Drive/Center Street o Windsor Park: Community Drive from
o Jupiter Plantation: Plantation Circle/Center Street, Greenway Drive to Central Boulevard
Plantation Way/Center Street o Somerset/Canterbury Place: Central
o Pine Gardens North: Center Street from Willet Avenue to Boulevard between South Community
North Loxahatchee Drive; North Loxahatchee Drive from Drive and Dakota Drive (South bound)
Center Street to Indiantown Road o Mallory Creek: Dakota Drive from
o Pine Gardens South: South Loxahatchee Drive from West Central Boulevard to Greenway
Indiantown Road to Toney Penna Drive (Bruce St Laurent Park) Drive, Frederick Small Road/Mallory
o Georgian Park: Georgian Park Drive/Toney Penna Drive Boulevard; Frederick Small Road/
o Weldwood: Weldwood Drive/Toney Penna Drive Boot Key Alley
o Paseos: South Pennock Lane/ Toney Penna Drive o Tuscany: Soriano Drive from
o Colony: Colony Way East/Toney Penna Drive Greenway Drive to Genova Lane
o Maplewood: Timber Lane/Toney Penna Drive; Pinetree o Heights: Heights Boulevard from
Trail/Toney Penna Drive Soriano Drive to Frederick Small Road
o Loxahatchee Club: Loxahatchee Club Drive/Toney o Island at Abacoa: Bermuda Drive/
Penna Drive West Frederick Small Road See Jupiter Police Department Facebook page for updated parade map including
o Maple Isle: Maple Creek Way/Toney Penna Drive o Charleston Court: Bermuda Drive/ Downtown Abacoa
o Jupiter River Estates: Mohican Boulevard/Toney West Frederick Small Road; Parkside
Penna Drive Drive/Frederick Small Road o Cambridge: Andover Drive/Frederick Small Road
o Timber Walk/Lauren Oaks: Bush Road/Toney Penna Drive o Antigua: Frederick Small Road from Parkside to o New Haven: New Haven Boulevard from Frederick Small
o Jupiter Village: Jupiter Village Road from Toney Penna Stadium Drive Road to Poinciana Drive; Poinciana Drive from New Haven
Drive to Central Boulevard o Valencia: Valencia Boulevard/Frederick Small Road Boulevard to Military Trail
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Abacoa Community Garden

Plants In Space activities spanned Inc., helped the children to create a 3-D version of the
across all subject space launch system (SLS) that brought to life the rocket
On May 25, the students at St. Mark’s Episcopal School areas throughout designed to launch humans farther into deep space, to Mars
celebrated that they are a part of the Artemis Generation, the school. A few and beyond!
the next generation to land on the moon, by speaking with examples of what
the astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). space week included
Dr. Natasha Haveman and Dr. Gioia Massa, NASA was discussing SAVE THE DATE
scientists at Kennedy Space Center who work on space how the days of
crop production for the International Space Station and the week relate to
future exploration endeavors, opened the event with a talk planets in Spanish, National Night Out
on growing plants in space. They expressed how exciting it created orbiting Red dwarf tomato plants growing in
is to be a scientist in a time where people are extending the space shuttles in art, “Veggie,” the vegetable production
time that they spend in space and will need fresh produce designing astronaut system on the ISS in February 2023.
to supplement the packaged astronaut diet. They began by landers in science. Photo by: NASA.
showing off astronaut Mike Hopkin’s Thanksgiving dinner The morning of the
on the space station. They presented what a plant module downlink, parent volunteers helped in each classroom as
would look like on the moon and Mars. They expressed the they worked on a space-related STEM activity. Activities
importance of fans, light, and fertilizer in the production throughout the year leading up to the downlink included an August 1, 2023 • Starts 6 p.m.
of crops as well as the challenge of watering plants in a observation night with the Astronomical Society of the Palm
microgravity environment. Haveman shared her exciting Beaches at the Cox Science Center, a pool-noodle rocket
experiences as a scientist and even what it was like to be on activity with the children and families at the Quantum
a field recovery mission for a suborbital flight. The speakers House, a growing plant in space versus Earth activity
then answered student questions about living, working, and in the Abacoa Community Garden. Aerojet Rocketdyne’s
growing plants in space. STEM program shared project ideas with our school and
After the keynote speakers, the mission control room information about the Artemis mission that were applied
from Houston appeared on the screen. It was then that the across the community activities. The robot club from DSS,
students watched as astronauts Steve Bowen, Frank Rubio
and Woody Hoburg connected live to the earth-to-space
call. As the microphone floated between the astronauts,
they answered student questions about sleeping, working,
and performing research on the space station. Hoburg
demonstrated how to drink water in space. Bowen showed
us how to keep tools from floating away in microgravity. We Measure,
Rubio mentioned that it was a lot of fun to watch tomato
plants grow on the station, which happened to be one of Make & Install
Massa’s experiments! The children enjoyed that astronauts For You!
could put their pants on “two legs at a time” while in orbit
250 miles above the Earth.
A week prior to the event the children were able to watch
the station float across the night sky and wave using the
Spot the Station website service. In the countdown to the
downlink, students shared fun facts about the station during
the morning announcements. During Space Week, space

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