Comments on: Operation Montserrat

By: Tim Boundy

Tim Boundy — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 13:47:06 +0000

I started my VC career on a project to adapt Operation Montserrat for the National Space Centre in the UK. I think the missions must be just as much fun to run as they are to particiapate as a student. My new job is great but I miss being Commander Tim and helping to save the thousands of Montserratian lives everyday.

Good to see its still going strong in the US.

By: Janine Lim

Janine Lim — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 13:13:16 +0000

The PD activity is the way we started. This year when I scheduled the workshop I said I’d pay for the program the first 10 teachers who signed up for the training (and showed up of course). That model worked well.

I talked to the coordinator yesterday about how that money could have been 3 programs with our mini-grant system, but she thought it was worth it because it’s a better program.

By: Roxanne Glaser

Roxanne Glaser — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 04:34:47 +0000

I haven’t done Montserrat with students, but Kathleen Frank “flew a mission” as a professional development activity for me with a group of 20 elementary and middle school educators and it was the most engaging and exciting video conference I have ever facilitated.

It is completely project-based and everyone gets so caught up in it that time flies by and you are feeling the full effects of the simulation and just trying to save the population of Montserrat. Expensive, but a great experience for middle school students!