Excerpts From an SSTO Lesson for a 10-Year-Old

[Dem Wot Goz Ub]

I'm an elementary school teacher by trade. Several of my students play KSP, and know I do as well. One of them came to me after school for advice on making SSTOs.

[Mr. Rogue Ace]

Interesting, very interesting!

[Frederf]

http://www.deonandan.com/uploaded_images/cat-its-beautiful-757601.jpg Edited August 7, 2013 by stupid_chris
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[imBobertRobert]

If you have students in elementary school who play KSP...

Those kids are going to go places.

[spudcosmic]

That kid is going to be a great aerospace engineer someday. It's amazing what he's doing.

[eskimo]

I especially love the "Space (essentially)" above 30 clicks

[Whatshtisthis]

Looks like we got a future aerospace engineer.

[loknar]

Sweet drawings.. Can your students play in class?

You must be so proud!

[Crown]

Wow!

Support that kid in his dreams. He will be a great engineer.

btw: What was your reaction on seeing the drawings and what advice did you give him?

[Romby]

Am i the only one understanding this as the teacher making the drawings to tell the kid about Spaceplanes? Dont think the kid made those.

[KerbMav]

Am i the only one understanding this as the teacher making the drawings to tell the kid about Spaceplanes? Dont think the kid made those.

[bogpad]

Am i the only one understanding this as the teacher making the drawings to tell the kid about Spaceplanes? Dont think the kid made those.

thats actually what I thought too, I didn't think about them coming from the child until someone mentioned that theory, I still think they came from the teacher though.

[Dem Wot Goz Ub]

They are both of our work -- some of them (like the SSTO design) are mine; some of them (like the navball markings and the questions about center of mass vs center of lift) are his. It doesn't make his KSP work any less awesome -- the fact that he's looking at SSTOs at all is pretty impressive in my book.

[animalcross]

I wish one of my new teachers this year plays KSP.