2007 Yuri's Night Celebration
Oklahoma Space Alliance's annual Yuri's Night celebration was held this year at the Moore Public Library in Moore, Oklahoma. We has about 50 people come in total, including members of the Challenger Center of Oklahoma City and the KISS Institute of Practical Robotics (KIPR). Cathryn Stein and David Miller of KIPR arranged for a botball contest by two groups from Moore middle schools. In fact, the botball participants and audience were a majority of our crowd.
Tom, Claire and Tim brought refreshments, posters and handout materials. Syd brought newsletters and made up flyers for ISDC, sign-up sheets, membership forms and brought materials to help with the set-up. KIPR needed tables but otherwise did their own setup. John Northcutt and Clifford McMurrayhelped with the setup. Laura Campbell showed up with her husband and their new baby. Magi Whitaker brought three large containers for dispensing beverages, which included ice tea and punch. Tom and Heidi Koszoru brought a chocolate fountain. We also had lots of graham crackers, fruit and cookies for dipping into chocolate, as well as Mars Bars, M&M's Milky Ways, pretzels and cheese balls and many kinds of sodas. Much of this will be showing up at the party at SoonerCon should we choose to have one.
At least five members of the Challenger Center showed up. This was their regular meeting for the month.
Wayne Wyrick from the Air and Space Museum at the Omniplex spoke to us and accepted the "Moon Tree" on behalf of the Omniplex.
We had a screen available, and showed a promotion for the Zero-G corporation and a video of Yuri Gargarin's flight into space, and KIPR showed a video on Botball. Tom had recorded some songs from the Yuri's Night website and Tim had some of his own.
Several people had cameras. We hope to eventually be able to have some of these pictures on the web site.
To contact Oklahoma Space Alliance, e-mail Syd Henderson.
PO Box 1003
Norman, OK 73070
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