Ordinary people can do extraordinary things. Meet the STS-135 Astronauts

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Check out who one of our special guests at the NASATweetup is going to be! ELMO

Look at this official press release! Yes, you read that correctly! ELMO from Sesame Street is coming to join us on the NASATweetup!!!! Holy Cow!!!! :-)

Wonder if he will bring us presents from Sesame Street?



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My navigator for the NASATweetup STS135

Went to school today and rescued Jeffery from the monotony of summer vacation so that he can be my navigator on my trip! :-) Expect to see him in more of my pictures from the Tweetup!


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So where exactly are the members of the NASATweetup STS-135 Traveling from?

Attendees represent 45 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, Australia, Canada, France, Germany,Ireland, Japan, Mexico, the Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, and the U.K.

Tweetup participants are coming from Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

Pretty darn cool if you ask me!

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My National Louis University Interview about NASATweetup

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My interview with National Louis University, where I recieved my Masters in Education from,  is here it is a podcast (I think), so you have to click it then say yes to the download. It is only a couple of minutes long, so I hope you will enjoy it!


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All Systems GO for launch!!! NASATweetup STS135

I just saw the best possible thing ever on Facebook!


From NASA's Facebook group 1 minute ago -- "NASA Managers voted unanimously to proceed toward STS-135 launch and officially set the launch date – July 8 at 11:26 a.m. EDT. The Post-Flight Readiness Review news conference will occur at 3:30 p.m. EDT on NASA TV: http://www.nasa.gov/ntv"


What that translates to? NASATweetup for the STS135 and the final launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis should all happen without any problems on July 7th (for the tweetup) and July 8th for the launch!


OH MY GOODNESS! I am going to be useless for the next week or so!!! You have been warned!!

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New Richland Baptist Church Youth taking off to Superwow

The Youth from New Richland Baptist Church on Highway 96 left on Saturday to attend Superwow on Jekyll Island.

The youth have worked hard all year selling dinner plates about one Sunday a month to raise the money needed to attend this spiritual week.

This week they will be hearing from spiritual leaders and working in group sessions to move closer to God and their beliefs.

Some of the people that they will be hearing from include:
Ed Newton, Aaron Keyes, and Ben Glenn. The kids met Ed Newton last year on their Superwow trip and were very moved by him. I am sure they will have the same experiences this year.

Please pray for them and keep them in your thoughts this week!













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OMGFacts OMGFacts 


by toptweets



NASA put a man on the moon with less computer memory than 


you use when taking a picture on your iPhone.





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@NASA_Johnson #sts135 NASATweetup Registration

http://j.mp/mDdQE6 @nasa_johnson#sts135 Tweetup... are you in Texas? want your own tweetup? sign up here! Registration for the Johnson Space Center Tweetup for the #sts135 mission begins at 11 am on the 30th. Open to only 30 people!!! 


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I made the Twiggs Times New Era for the NASATweetup

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I Heart Faces June 27th – A Touch of Whimsy

DJ protecting Ft. Pulaski National Monument on our visit there.



Please visit  to see all of the entries! http://www.iheartfaces.com

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Life With My Special Ks: Blogging for Carlene

Please go visit my friend Renee's blog Life With My Special Ks: Blogging for Carlene:

"When we were in Ukraine in 2009 adopting Kellsey, we were fortunate enough to be there at the same time as a couple other Reece's Rainbow fa..."

Where they are trying to help the Harris Family raise money to find Carlene a forever home!

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Thank you to my NASATweetup supporters!

Please help me say thank you to the following people/organizations for their sponsoring me in attending the NASATweetup!


Advanced Disposal
Wolf Creek Landfill
Debra Johnson
Renee Garcia
Rose Lane Leavell
Shannon Moore
Karen Douglass
United Music
Cindie Hurley
Christopher Maytag
Rhonda Hoeft
Lindsay MacLean
Mary Henderson

I am about half way to my goal between online, in person, and through the mail donations! There is still time left to help! Visit: fund razr or Go Fund Me or contact me for a mailing address/meetup in person! Every donation will help from $5 to $500! 

For donations from $5-$50 Mrs. Cleveland will post thank yous to all sponsors on her blog, her Twitter feed @scienceesl, and her facebook page.

For donations from $50-$100 Mrs. Cleveland wil post badges on the sidebar of her blog asking people to visit the webpages of the sponsors of her trip.

For donations from $100-$300 Mrs. Cleveland will post badges on the sidebar of her blog asking people to visit the webpages of the sponsors of her trip, and a special dedicated thank you post for the sponsor.

For donations from $300-$500 Mrs. Cleveland will do a special "sticky post" advertisement/thank you post on her blog for one week, as well as the badge on the side bar of her blog asking people to visit the webpages of the sponsors of her trip.

For donations of $500 and greater, Mrs. Cleveland will discuss with you, how to thank you! As well as a “stick post” advertisement/thank you post on her blog for one week, and  the badge on the side bar of her blog.

Mrs. Cleveland's blog is followed by over 30 members of the public, viewed over 200 times a week by various other readers, as well as syndicated to her friends on facebook, fans of her Photography page, and her page is syndicated to the http://twiggs.13wmaz.com/ page, where it is viewed by readers from all over Middle Georgia. 

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Please help me get to the NASATweetup!

Can you please help me get to the NASATweetup? Any amount at all will help me achieve this lifelong dream, and also provide me with the opportunity to bring this experience back to the children of Twiggs County. If you can visit: http://www.gofundme.com/5mszo and donate to this trip I would be forever greatful. Any amount no matter how big or how small will be appreciated.

If you have a home business or even a larger business and you donate to this cause I have sponsorship levels available.

For donations from $5-$50 Mrs. Cleveland will post thank yous to all sponsors on her blog, http://scienceesl.blogspot.com, her Twitter feed @scienceesl, and her facebook page.

For donations from $50-$100 Mrs. Cleveland wil post badges on the sidebar of her blog asking people to visit the webpages of the sponsors of her trip.

For donations from $100-$500 Mrs. Cleveland will do a special "sticky post" advertisement/thank you post on her blog for one week.

For donations of $500 and greater, Mrs. Cleveland will discuss with you, how to thank you as well as all of the ways listed above.

Please help this teacher get to the NASATweetup! http://apps.facebook.com/fundrazr/activity/6eaacaada8bc46c696eb194b7df126e3 or to Go'>http://www.gofundme.com/5mszo">Go Fund Me Every donation will help from $5 to $50!

@NASATweetup Educators to follow

The following are other educators that area attending the NASATweetup with me! Check them out and go follow them on Twitter! 

@northlight

@Julieanntuttle

@IamTay

@mayorisaac

@almostrocketscience

@azeducator

@reasearchameleon

@sciencegoddess

@skyviewscience

@heathernaut

@astromsm

@jhox1

Edited to add:
@rhettrothberg
@DrThomasHo

And of course my own account @scienceesl.

I am looking forward to meeting and interacting with each of these educators. I know we will all bring our own knowledge to the tweetup and will all learn from eachother. 

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The link for donations for Little Eddie Davies Jr

If you remember the other day I posted about Eddie Davies Jr. whose family is trying to raise the money to get him a service dog. I have a link to share with you to make it easier to donate to the family. Go to: http://www.4pawsforability.org/dream.html#EddieDavies or to

You can also go to: http://4pawsforability.org/donation.html
1) Click the paypal icon on this donation page. 2) In the "Special Instructions" box before you send your paypal donation please write "In Honor of Eddie Davies" . Your donation will go directly to 4 Paws and they will send you a tax exempt donation form for your taxes.

 One Air Force, One Air Force Family.


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Want to attend a #nasatweetup of your own?

Want to attend a #nasatweetup of your own? http://j.mp/lZwUjn NASA to Host 150 People for Tweetup at Launch of Jupiter-Bound Mission! Registration will open at 3 p.m. EDT (noon PDT) on Friday, June 24, on this page and close at 3 p.m. EDT (noon PDT) on Monday, June 27. NASA will accommodate 150 participants randomly selected from those who sign up. Additional registrants will be placed on a waiting list.


You have to be a member of Twitter to register, but that is an easy process. 


Let me know if you apply, and your Twitter handle and I will follow you!!! 



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Twitter Handles for the STS135 Space Shuttle Atlantis Crew

The entire STS-135 crew is on Twitter:

• Commander @Astro_Ferg
• Pilot @Astro_Doug
• Mission Specialist 1 @Astro_Sandy
• Mission Specialist 2 @Astro_Rex
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• And the ISS Expedition 28 crew:
•  @Astro_Ron, 
• @Astro_Aggie,
• @Astro_Satoshi,
•  Andrei Borisenko, Aleksandr Samokutyayev, Sergei Volkov

Follow them as they embark on this great journey! The astronauts have been sharing pictures and news as they finalize their preparations for their launch.

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Count Down to NASATWEETUP

If you would like to donate to this special trip please contact Mrs. Cleveland at scienceesl@yahoo.com or visit http://apps.facebook.com/fundrazr/activity/6eaacaada8bc46c696eb194b7df126e3 to donate automatically! 

More famous NASATweetup Participants

This is neat! One of my fellow NASATweetup Tweeps? Yeah its Bryan from the tonight show!! :-) Go watch this clip where Bryan gets  Lior Suchard to draw the space shuttle!!! 

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My interview with Channel 13 WMAZ!

The written interview is at http://twiggs.13wmaz.com/news/education/tweeting-teacher-picked-view-shuttle-launch/54291

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Please help a Robins Air Force Base Family get a service dog

There is an Air Force family in need right here in middle Georgia. I am hoping that someone out there can help the family out. The family of Eddie Davies Jr is trying to raise the money to get him a service dog from the group  4 Paws for Ability.

Little Eddie has  9P deletion, also called Alfi’s syndrome, and an 8Q duplication of his chromosomes. The first involves the partial deletion of a chromosome and the second involves the duplication of another.

The family needs to raise at least $13,000 in order to get little Eddie this dog that will enable them to rest easier. The service dog will be trained to alert the family when Eddie is about to have a seziure.

You can read more about how to help the Davies family at: http://www.macon.com/2011/06/22/1603516/family-raises-money-for-service.html#ixzz1Q2vXbGBS

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Count Down to NASATWEETUP

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If you would like to donate to this special trip please contact Mrs. Cleveland at scienceesl@yahoo.com or visit http://apps.facebook.com/fundrazr/activity/6eaacaada8bc46c696eb194b7df126e3 to donate automatically! 

More NASATweetup press!

If you are in the Middle Georgia Area....

Watch Channel 13 WMAZ tonight at five! I did an interview with Lauren DeSpirto today that will be on about my opportunity to attend the NASATweetup. I will share the link when they get it up online either tonight or tomorrow.


I also did a telephone interview with Robert Schroeder the Alumni Outreach and Communications Specialist for National Louis University, where I recieved my masters degree. He is going to turn that into a pod cast and I will share the link to that once it is up online as well!



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Cool NASATweetup Blogs to follow

There are quite a few of us attending the tweetup that blog. I started to make a blogroll and post it on here, but then I realized that it is already made, so why  reinvent the wheel?
Go to http://nasatweet.com/wiki/STS135_Media and add all of the blogs listed to your readers! I promise you will not be disappointed!!!

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Sponsors wanted for NASATweetup trip!

On July 7th and 8th, 2011, 150 members of the public have been invited to attend a special tweetup at Kennedy Space Center to witness the final launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Mrs. Patricia Cleveland a fourth grade teacher at Jeffersonville Elementary School in Twiggs County Georgia and twitter user, applied and was accepted for this once in a lifetime opportunity. 

Mrs. Cleveland plans on using this opportunity as a professional develpment tool to use in her classroom for the years to come. The event will provide Mrs. Cleveland the opportunity to speak with shuttle technicians, engineers, astronauts, and managers, and to experience the launch of space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station. Also Mrs. Cleveland will have to opportunity to work and meet with fellow educators, scientists, computer programers, social media specialists, and people from many walks of life that she feels will give her feedback and experiences to share with her classes. 

 Mrs. Cleveland will travel to Florida July 6th through July 9th, for this experience. The NASATweetup group will have the opportunity to meet many people involved with the space program and receive a tour of Kennedy Space Center on July 7th, and witness the launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis for its final mission on July 8th. 

Participants in this activity have to provide for their own travel, lodging and food.

Mrs. Cleveland is looking for sponsors for her trip to help defray the expenses that she will be incuring.

For donations from $5-$50 Mrs. Cleveland will post thank yous to all sponsors on her blog, http://scienceesl.blogspot.com, her Twitter feed @scienceesl, and her facebook page. 

For donations from $50-$100 Mrs. Cleveland wil post badges on the sidebar of her blog asking people to visit the webpages of the sponsors of her trip.

For donations from $100-$500 Mrs. Cleveland will do a special "sticky post" advertisement/thank you post on her blog for one week. 

For donations of $500 and greater, Mrs. Cleveland will discuss with you, how to thank you!

If you can help in any way no matter how big or how small visit: http://goo.gl/c1Cvs

You can follow Mrs. Cleveland during this experience on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/scienceesl or her blog at http://scienceesl.blogspot.com/ for up to date pictures and information about the trip.

If you would like to donate to this special trip please contact Mrs. Cleveland at scienceesl@yahoo.com

If you would like to make this trip possible for Mrs. Cleveland visit http://apps.facebook.com/fundrazr/activity/6eaacaada8bc46c696eb194b7df126e3 or at Go Fund Me and donate to her cause! Every little bit helps from $5.00 to $500.00 what ever you can afford! Sponsorship opportunities abound!

 

Count Down to NASATWEETUP

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If you would like to donate to this special trip please contact Mrs. Cleveland at scienceesl@yahoo.com or visit http://apps.facebook.com/fundrazr/activity/6eaacaada8bc46c696eb194b7df126e3 to donate automatically! 

Meet the NASATweetup Crew

Go here: http://thespacecrowd.com/ and meet most of the NASATweetup crew!

The Space Crowd is a documentary that is being filmed about this awesome experience that we are about to embark on.

I hope you are all following us on Twitter as well as here on my blog as the date gets closer!

Remember I am looking for sponsors for my trip! If you can help me out let me know!

Please consider sponsoring my NASATweetup trip, to enrich the learning of the students of Twiggs County

Patricia L. Cleveland

1166 Hamlin Floyd Rd

Jeffersonville, GA 31044

478-308-2578

Scienceesl@yahoo.com

http://scienceesl.blogspot.com

On July 7th and 8th, 2011, 150 members of the public have been invited to attend a special tweet up at Kennedy Space Center to witness the final launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis. Mrs. Patricia Cleveland a fourth grade teacher at Jeffersonville Elementary School in Twiggs County Georgia and twitter user, applied and was accepted for this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Mrs. Cleveland plans on using this opportunity as a professional development tool to use in her classroom for the years to come. The event will provide Mrs. Cleveland the opportunity to speak with shuttle technicians, engineers, astronauts, managers, shuttle directors, and a tour of Kennedy Space Center, on July 7th, and then on July 8th to experience the final launch of space shuttle Atlantis to the International Space Station. Also Mrs. Cleveland will have to opportunity to work and meet with fellow educators, scientists, computer programmers, social media specialists, and people from many walks of life that will give her feedback and experiences to share with her classes.

Mrs. Cleveland will travel to Florida July 6th through July 9th, for this experience. Participants in this once in a lifetime experience have to provide for their own travel, lodging and food expenses.

Mrs. Cleveland is looking for sponsors for her trip to help defray the expenses that she will be incurring.

For donations from $5-$50 Mrs. Cleveland will publicly thank the donors on Face book, Twitter, and her blog: http://scienceesl.blogspot.com

For donations from $50-$100 Mrs. Cleveland will make a special blog post on her blog http://scienceesl.blogspot.com asking people to visit the webpage/business of the sponsor of her trip.

For donations from $100-$300 Mrs. Cleveland will publicly thank the donors on Face book, Twitter, and her blog, post badges on the sidebar of her blog http://scienceesl.blogspot.com asking people to visit the WebPages of the sponsors of her trip, as well as a “sticky post” advertisement/thank you post on her blog for four days.

For donations from $300-$500 Mrs. Cleveland will publicly thank the donors on Face book, Twitter, and her blog, do a special "sticky post" advertisement/thank you post on her blog for one week, as well as the badge on the side bar of her blog asking people to visit the WebPages of the sponsors of her trip.

For donations of $500 and greater, Mrs. Cleveland will discuss with you, how to thank you! As well as a “stick post” advertisement/thank you post on her blog for one week, and the badge on the side bar of her blog.

You can follow Mrs. Cleveland during this experience on Twitter at http://twitter.com/#!/scienceesl or her blog at http://scienceesl.blogspot.com/ for up to date pictures and information about the trip.

If you are able and would like to donate to this special trip please contact Mrs. Cleveland at scienceesl@yahoo.com, phone: 478-308-2578, or mail at 1166 Hamlin Floyd Rd, Jeffersonville, GA 31044

Sponsorships are accepted online at: http://apps.facebook.com/fundrazr/activity/6eaacaada8bc46c696eb194b7df126e3 in person, or through the mail.

Thank you very much for your consideration in this sponsorship.


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I Heart Faces Let's Hear It For The Boys!

My entry this week for the I Heart Faces Let's Hear It For The Boys! Challenge. This is a picture from the photoshoot I did a few weeks ago for my friend Tammy and her family. :-)

Head on over to I Heart Faces to see all of the entries!





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NasaTweetup Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Patricia Cleveland
Tel: 478-308-2578
scienceesl@yahoo.com
@scienceesl

MEDIA RELEASE

Twiggs County Resident is One of 150 Selected to Attend NASA Tweetup for Last Space Shuttle Launch, July 7 - 8, 2011

NASA Twitter Followers Will Tweet History as Shuttle Program Nears Retirement

Jeffersonville, GA (June 15, 2011) NASA will bring together 150 Twitter followers to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-day Tweetup, July 7 - 8, 2011, for the final launch of Atlantis before the space shuttle program is retired.  Twiggs County resident Patricia Cleveland has been selected as one of 150 @NASA Twitter followers to attend and Tweet the event. Atlantis is targeted to launch on July 8 at around 11:40 a.m. EDT on mission STS-135 to the International Space Station.

As a NASA Tweetup attendee, Cleveland and the other 149 Twitterers will interact with NASA shuttle technicians, engineers, astronauts, managers and NASA’s social media team as well as tour Kennedy Space Center and view the shuttle launch from the media area. Attendees were selected through a lottery system in which more than 5,500 @NASA Twitter followers applied.

“This is a great honor and privilege to represent Twiggs County Public Schools, and to fulfill a lifetime dream by going to witness a shuttle launch. With it being the last launch of the space shuttle program it is especially humbling, and exciting.” Cleveland said, “I am looking forward to bringing my experiences, and photographs through twitter and my blog as well as back to my students at Jeffersonville Elementary and getting them excited about the space program.”

Patricia Cleveland is a fourth grade teacher at Jeffersonville Elementary School, in Twiggs County, Georgia. Mrs. Cleveland has her master’s degree from National Louis University in instruction and curriculum and her bachelor’s degree in education from Arizona State University. Mrs. Cleveland has taught for the Department of Defense Dependent Schools at RAF Lakenheath, and in Florida before moving to Georgia with her husband, an active duty member of the United States Air Force, and three children. Follow her Tweets at twitter.com/scienceesl, and her blog of the events at http://scienceesl.blogspot.com

NASA Tweetup attendees are traveling from across the U.S. and globe to attend this historic event. A list of registered Twitter attendees can be found on the NASA Tweetup Twitter account: http://twitter.com/NASATweetup/sts-135-launch/members

Information about the NASA Tweetup can be viewed on http://www.nasa.gov/connect/tweetup/index.html

Note About Space Shuttle Atlantis’ Launch Date
The date of Atlantis’ launch will be official after the Flight Readiness Review, scheduled for June 28.  If the launch date moves or is delayed prior to July 8, NASA may change the Tweetup schedule accordingly to coincide with the launch. Additional information can be found on http://www.nasa.gov/connect/tweetup/index.html.


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