What's Up This Week 1/27-2/2/2014

What’s up this week?

Weekly celebrations this week…         ·         24-29 World Leprosy Week         ·         26-2/1 o    Catholic Schools Week o    Meat Week         ·         29-2/8 US Snow Sculpting Week
M	1/27	Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day Holocaust Memorial Day
T	1/28	National Kazoo Day 1986 | Challenger Shuttle Exploded ABC, CBS, FOX & NBC | State of the Union by President Obama DVD Releases          ·         Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2          ·         Metallica: Through the Never
W	1/29	Curmudgeons Day Freethinkers Day National Puzzle Day Seeing Eye Dog Day CBS | The Superbowls Greatest Commercials 2014 BBC America | Fleming The Man Who Would Be Bond Travel Channel | Toy Hunter  (Season Premiere)
Th	1/30	New Moon
F	1/31	Chinese New Year Fun At Work Day National Pre-School Fitness Day Street Children Day
S	2/1	Change Your Password Day G.I. Joe Day Ice Cream For Breakfast Day International Face & Body Art Day Take  Your Child To The Library Day
S	2/2	Groundhog Day Popcorn Day Hallmark | Kitten Bowl Animal Planet | Puppy Bowl NatGeo | Fish Bowl Fox |Super Bowl XLVIII
Key		Holidays & Fun Days to Celebrate History Entertainment
Weeks Left This year			47	Days Left This year As of 1/27	338

Have a great week &everybody!

Here There Be Dragon's - A Story of A Girl & Company

I recently stumbled upon a story that left me speechless and appreciative of the efforts of those that took the extra time for the benefit for one child. 

Who

•  A little girl named Sophie (age 7) 
•  CSIRO, the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most diverse research agencies in the world.

What

Sophie wrote to the CSIRO and asked for a dragon.

Hello Lovely Scientist

My name is Sophie and I am 7 years old. My dad told me about the scientists at the CSIRO. Would it be possible if you can make a dragon for me. I would like it if you could but if you can’t thats fine. 

I would call it toothless if it was a girl and if it is a boy I would name it Stuart. 

I would keep it in my special green grass area where there are lots of space. I would feed it raw fish and I would put a collar on it. If it got hurt I would bandage it if it hurt himself. I would play with it every weekend when there is no school. 

Love from Sophie

CSIRO took the time to reply & also posted their reply on their blog:

We’ve been doing science since 1926 and we’re quite proud of what we have achieved. We’ve put polymer banknotes in your wallet, insect repellent on your limbs and Wi-Fi in your devices. But we’ve missed something.

There are no dragons.

Over the past 87 odd years we have not been able to create a dragon or dragon eggs. We have sighted an eastern bearded dragon at one of our telescopes, observed dragonflies and even measured body temperatures of the mallee dragon. But our work has never ventured into dragons of the mythical, fire breathing variety.

And for this Australia, we are sorry.

Now that alone was awesome & the kudos for taking the time to answer a little girl's letter with such honesty and integrity without casting it aside! But wait for it there is more...A week after the original blog post the made a follow up post...

What could it be? What more could they have done? 

They made Sophie's dream come true. Using a 3D printer they made her a dragon per her request & then sent it to her!

Sophie’s mother Melissah said Sophie was overjoyed with our response and has been telling everyone dragon breath can be a new fuel. “All her friends are now saying they want to be a scientist and Sophie says she now wants to work at CSIRO. She’s saying Australian scientists can do anything,” Melissah told the Canberra Times.

Sometime all it takes is a bit of time, a bit of effort and the willingness to change a child forever!

Via CSIRO NewsBlog

http://csironewsblog.com/2014/01/06/accelerating-our-dragon-rd-program/ 

http://csironewsblog.com/2014/01/10/here-be-3d-printed-dragons/

For More Info Media: Vanessa Hill,  +61 412 409 971  vanessa.hill@csiro.au.

What's Up This Week 1/20 -1/26/2014

What’s up this week?

Weekly celebrations this week…           19-25 o    Clean out your inbox week o    Hunt for happiness week o    National Handwriting Analysis Week           20-24 o    No Name Calling o    Sugar Awareness            24-29 | World Leprosy Week            25-26 | Kid Film Festival
M	1/20	Martin Luter King Day Penguin Awareness Day National Disc Jockey Day 2009 | Barack Obama became the 1st African American President
T	1/21	National Hugging Day Squirrel Appreciation Day MTV | Teen Mom 2 (Season Premiere)
W	1/22	1997 | Madeleine Albright becomes 1st female Secretary of State
Th	1/23	National Handwriting Day 1849 | Elizabeth Blackwell became the 1st female doctor CW | Vampire Diaries (returns from Winter Break) CW | Reign (returns from Winter Break)
F	1/24	National Peanut Butter Day Compliment Day
S	1/25	National Seed Swap Day Opposite Day 1915 | 1st Transcontinental phone call Lifetime | Lizzie Borden Took an Ax Starz | Black Sails (Series Debut)
S	1/26	CBS | Grammy Awards
Key		Holidays & Fun Days to Celebrate History Entertainment
Weeks Left This year			48	Days Left This year As of 1/27	338

Have a great week &everybody!

What's Up This Week 1/13 - 1/19/2013

What’s up this week?

M	1/13	Rubber Duckie Day
T	1/14	1784 | Revolutionary War Ended  CW | The Original (returns from Winter Break)
W	1/15	Hat Day 1929 | Martin Luther King was born FOX | American Idol
Th	1/16	Religious Freedom Day The goal of ReligiousFreedomDay.com is to promote and protect students' religious expression rights by informing educators, parents, and students about these liberties.
F	1/17	Kid Inventor’s Day 1706 | Ben Franklin was born 1806 | 1st baby born in White House
S	1/18	Winnie the Pooh Day Thesaurus Day
S	1/19	Popcorn Day World Religion Day 1809 | Edgar Allan Poe was born PBS | Sherlock Holmes (Season Premiere)
Key		Holidays & Fun Days to Celebrate History Entertainment

Have a great week &everybody!