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Photo Gallery Year 1 This section contains photos from various events related to Space Day in Pulaski County during its first year. Click here to download our collection of videos from Year 1 of Space Day in Pulaski County. Warning: these videos are in a 41M byte ZIP file! The 5 videos and associated Powerpoint decks in this collection are: Anatomy of a Rocket Launch (1 minute, 51 seconds) Space Day Year 1 (4 minutes, 10 seconds) Space Shuttle Exposure Experience (4 minutes, 15 seconds) WCMS Rocket Launch (2 minutes, 55 seconds) Year 1 in Pictures (1 minute, 55 seconds)
Boy Scouts - Rocketry Team About 15 Scouts  
|  | Winamc Community Middle School - Rocketry Team About 5 Students 
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|  |  Computerized Altimeter recovered from rocket and connected to Laptop | Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation - Signatures in Space About 1,300 Students 
Photos courtesy of Pulaski County Journal and Independent |  | West Central School Corporation - Signatures in Space About 850 Students 
Photos courtesy of Francesville Tribune |  | First Christian Church AGC Day Care and Nursery School - Space Shuttle Decals About 90 3- and 4-Year-Old Children 
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Microsoft TechEd 2007 Attending Virtual TechEd 
|  | Rose-Hulman CSSE Department Meeting 
Pictured Left to Right: Forest Conn, Richard Conn (Chair of Space Day in Pulaski County and member of Dr. Laxer's Industry Advisory Board), Dr. Laxer, Glen Meyers (Pastor, First Christian Church of Winamac), Wendy Rose (Executive Director, Pulaski County Community Foundation), Dr. Robert Klitzman (Superintendent, Eastern Pulaski Community School Corporation), and Dan Dolezal (Executive Directory, Pulaski County Community Development Commission) About Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology has been ranked #1 by US News and World Report for undergraduate engineering education at the Bachelor’s and Master’s level for 8 years in a row. This last fall, 3,300 high school seniors world-wide competed for the 470 slots in the new Freshman Class. Of these new Freshman, 86% ranked in the top fifth of their high school class, 20% ranked in the top three positions of their high school class, 282 were members of honor societies, and the average SAT scores were 620 critical reading and 680 math. At the other end of the pipeline, on-campus job interviews for Rose-Hulman seniors start September 15, and a career fair is scheduled for seniors on October 18. 160 companies have already signed up for it. The average starting salary for a Rose-Hulman graduate last year was $54,100, with Microsoft on the high end with a starting salary as high as $75,000 plus perks. | Visit by Dr. Cary Laxer of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology Dr. Cary Laxer, Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering (CSSE) at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, was hosted at a luncheon at the Indian Head restaurant on Tuesday, October 3. Dr. Laxer discussed many topics of interest to the group, including how to prepare our students to improve their chances for admission to Rose-Hulman, venture capital funding opportunities through Rose-Hulman Ventures, collaborations and grant-funding opportunities between Rose-Hulman and various Indiana-based philanthropic organizations (particularly the Eli Lilly Foundation), and activities and events at Rose-Hulman as well as ways to partner with Rose-Hulman. |
 | Microsoft In-Person Events on August 22, 2006
Microsoft and several partners sponsored 4 free educational in-person events at the Regal Cinemas 17 in Carmel, IN. They were each about four hours long: - Connections - an introduction to the new Windows Vista, Office 2007, and other software coming out in the next six months
- TS2 - technical/sales seminar for partners
- Technet - seminar on how to maintain and run Windows Vista, Exchange, and other software from Microsoft; for IT Staff
- Microsoft Developer's Network - seminar on how to develop software using Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 and the .NET Framework 2.0; for software developers
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Glen Meyers won a copy of Microsoft OneNote during the event. Since the First Christian Church already had a copy, he gave the OneNote prize to Pastor Steve Fritchman of the First United Methodist Church. | Goodies handed out during this event include, but are not limited to: - Beta 2 of Windows Vista
- Evaluation and Resource Kit for Beta 2 of Windows Vista
- Microsoft Developer's Network Resource DVD
- Session-related videos, code, and slides
- Microsoft Expression Suite (May Community Technology Preview) - includes Expression Graphic Designer, Expression Interactive Designer, and Expression Web Designer
- Videos from TechEd 2006
- Articles, videos and webcasts, screencasts, starter kits, links and more on ASP.NET, Windows Presentation Foundation, Windows Workflow Foundation, Atlas and AJAX, and Visual Studeio Team Edition for Database Professionals
- IT Professional Resource Kit DVD
- Access to session materials, including slides and video recordings
- Detailed whitepapers and articles on the installation, administration, and deployment of Windows Vista
- Over 20 webcasts and links to features in Vista, Exchange 2007, and Office 2007
- Podcasts and screencasts covering session materials
- Online resource links that will help troubleshoot and maintain a desktop and Exchange environment
- More than 20 utilities and tools to help prepare for deploying Vista and Office 2007
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 | Vista and Office 2007 Launch Event Indianapolis Convention Center January 2007 Glen Meyers of the First Christian Church, Jon McDougal of the Fellowship Baptist Church, and Richard Conn, Space Day in Pulaski County Lead, attended this event, receiving three free copies of Office 2007 Professional (MSRP $500 per copy). This software was donated to the churches (2 to First Christian, 1 to Fellowship Baptist). 
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