Your Hands – JJ Heller
aldine vaqueras 2010
Duration : 0:2:37
Jul
2
I live in Venezuela, and my husband has been transferred to Texas. We are waiting for more information but they told us we are going to live in Fort Bend County. I was house searching, but if i put fort bend county it says there are no results. Can someone explain to me is that like a city, or where is the best part to live there. Im not from the States so i don’t understand. Also i know someone how’s kids are studying at Seven Lakes High School, is it near fort ben county??? As you may see im completely lost!!! Also is it close to Houston??? how many hours?
Thanks!!!!!
Well fortbend county is not the city.Find out if its sugarland Tx where you will be located if it is then you are ok because that is a nice area . And yes this city is souroundng of Houston tx not far at all .I have worked in the Sugarland area for many years and Fortbend county is said to have the best schools education wise. Good Luck!! Have fun when you get here!!
Jun
8
Lord of the Rings –
May
30
Alex Theiss of the Seven Lakes Spartans from Katy, Texas competing in the pole vault event at the University Interscholastic League (UIL) 2010 Region III Track & Field Championship held on May 3, 2010 at Turner Stadium in Humble, TX. More photos and videos from this event can be found at http://www.paparazzophotography.com (Alex achieved a height of 12-06.00 at this meet.)
Duration : 0:1:20
May
27
This is a video made by Max Preps Sports available in Houston on Comcast Channel 1. It showcases Zack Whiddon’s stellar game vs. Seven Lakes in which he hit a 3-run HR and a double, as well as a closer look at Whiddon and his talents on the field.
Duration : 0:5:18
May
26
The Seven Lakes HS Choir’s rendition of Thriller for the 2010 Pop Show as taped my yours truly (focused on Pearl most of the middle)
Duration : 0:4:2
May
22
Like many red-blooded American teens coming of age during the 1960s space race, Franklin Chang-Diaz dreamed of chasing cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin to the stars.
There was a hitch, of course. Chang-Diaz wasn’t American. He lived outside the United States. And the Costa Rican didn’t even speak English.
No matter. Chang-Diaz would overcome these obstacles and more to fly a record-tying seven missions aboard the space shuttle. Along the way the physicist would also develop a plasma rocket that promises a revolutionary approach to spaceflight.
The rocket, potentially, could blast the next generation of astronauts to Mars in just 39 days, about one fifth of the time required by existing rocketry.
At a time when much of Houston’s space community is openly hostile to President Barack Obama’s desire to remake NASA’s human spaceflight program, Chang-Diaz, 60, is among those welcoming it.
“Even though this transition is very strong medicine, and it is being applied at a very awkward moment, it is the right thing to do,” he said.
From his perspective, if humans are ever to venture substantially beyond Earth’s moon, they’ll need advanced propulsion systems to do so.
And the sooner NASA begins reinvesting in them — funding for advanced propulsion dried up in 2005 when money was diverted into the Constellation program to build conventional rockets to send astronauts back to the moon
— the better, says Chang-Diaz, whose Clear Lake rocket company, Ad Astra, could profit from such a change.
On Thursday, in a speech to promote his space policy plans, Obama confirmed that it will take new technologies for NASA to explore deeper into the solar system.
“We’ve got to do it in a smart way,” he said at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. “We can’t keep doing the same old things as before.”
One-way ticket to U.S.
Chang-Diaz’s story begins in a San José bank, where he worked as a teller after graduating from high school to scrabble together enough money to come to the United States. After nine months Chang-Diaz had saved $50 and convinced his dad, a construction foreman, to buy him a one-way ticket to America.
In 1968 he arrived in Hartford, Conn., to stay with distant relatives. Not speaking English, he enrolled in a local high school to learn the language and, in time, apply to college.
“Of course it was a disaster,” Chang-Diaz recalled. “The first marking period I failed everything. But from being at the bottom I began to improve, and towards the end of the year I was near the top of the class.”
So promising a student was he that Chang-Diaz earned a partial scholarship to the University of Connecticut. He sailed through college and, later, graduate school at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, studying mechanical engineering and physics, with an interest in plasma, an electrically charged gas that responds to electromagnetic fields.
By 1979, Chang-Diaz was a citizen, and NASA was seeking scientists for its new space shuttle program. In 1980, he became NASA’s first Hispanic astronaut, moved to Houston, and six years later launched aboard Columbia.
“I flew on all of the space shuttles,” he said. “I flew on Mir. I flew on the International Space Station. I just got to experience everything. Having come from a little country in Central America, sometimes it’s amazing for me to even believe.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/6964775.html
Well good for him. He did very well.
May
15
Just a sneak peak at Seven Lakes spring practice
May
6
Louis’ dancing abilities!