Google's VR video series "The Female Planet"

 Google's VR video series "The Female Planet" 

This young girl is 22 years old, MIT grad, working at Boeing on the project to send humans to Mars. 

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https://youtu.be/wrtFLhwu168

NOTE: enjoy this 360-degree video even more by using a VR viewer!

Episode description

In the virtual reality series "The Female Planet," watch the story of Tiera Fletcher, a Boeing aerospace engineer designing the rocket to launch humankind to the moon and on to Mars.  Get a 360 degree look into Tiera's career, the groundbreaking work she's doing with NASA and Boeing, and how she's leading the "Mars generation."

About "The Female Planet" Series

Blog post from 10/11/17

“The Female Planet” is a VR video series from Google and Surround Vision that captures the daily lives of amazing female role models around the world. “The Female Planet” delves into the personal and professional experiences of five extraordinary women with careers spanning technology, science, sports, and the arts. Follow in their footsteps as they take you through their day-to-day routines. You’ll see inside their workplaces, hear firsthand why they chose the paths they’re on now, and get to know what pushed them to keep moving forward.  

About Tiera Fletcher

Born and raised in a small town near Atlanta, Georgia, Tiera Fletcher (Guinn) has had a passion for aerospace engineering since the tender age of eleven. Before then, she had aspirations of being a scientist, inventor, architect, mathematician, and many other careers within the field of STEM. It was not until she became introduced to the field of aerospace engineering that she realized her true dream. At 22, Tiera is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a Bachelor’s of Science in Aerospace Engineering and currently serves as a Structural Analysis Engineer at The Boeing Company in Huntsville, AL where she's specifically working on NASA’s Space Launch System (the rocket NASA plans to send to Mars). She has a strong interest in helping upcoming generations to realize and achieve their dreams. Tiera enjoys speaking to youth to not only encourage them to become more involved in STEM, but to reach their goals in any field they wish to pursue.

Don't Ask a Dinosaur

Press Release:

On Sale April 2018 Don't Ask a Dinosaur Written by Deborah Bruss & Matt Forrest Esenwine Illustrated by Louie Chin Written in a masterfully-executed rhyme, the book presents a cavalcade of lesser-known dinos and pairs their odd characteristics with little tasks that are hilariously impossible because of those features. "Don't ask Deinocheirus to set the forks and spoons," because his hands were enormous, "Therizinosaurus cannot blow up balloons," because he had very long claws. In the end they find the one thing everyone can help do is to blow out the candles on the cake...but will it create yet another mess? Deborah Bruss didn’t discover her passion for writing until she had read thousands of pages out loud to her own children, and wrote a story for her young son who was obsessed with wolves. She is the author of Book! Book! Book! (Scholastic, 2001), Big Box for Ben (Star Bright, 2011), a contributing author to the non-fiction series, America’s Notable Women, and the upcoming Good Morning, Snowplow! When Deborah couldn’t sell her story titled, Don’t Ask a Porcupine, she invited dinosaurs and a poet/friend to join in the mayhem. Thus, Don’t Ask a Dinosaur was born. Deborah lives in Concord, New Hampshire with her family and a squirrel-chasing rescue dog, and loves spending time with her grandchildren.   Matt Forrest Esenwine’s children’s poetry can be found in numerous anthologies including J. Patrick Lewis’ The National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry (National Geographic Children’s Books, 2015), Kenn Nesbitt’s One Minute till Bedtime (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2016), and Lee Bennett Hopkins’ School People (Boyds Mills Press, 2018), as well as Highlights for Kids magazine. Meanwhile, his debut picture book, Flashlight Night (Boyds Mills Press, 2017), received critical praise across the country and was selected by the New York Public Library as one of the Best Picture Books for Kids of 2017. Born just outside of Baltimore, MD, Matt lives in Warner, New Hampshire with his wife and kids. Louie Chin was born in New York City. His comics and illustrations have appeared in a variety of publications and projects, including The New York Times, Boston Globe, and Nike. Louie is especially happy to illustrate this book, since he spent hours reading the dinosaur edition ofChildcraft as a kid, being fascinated, yet scared learning about them. He currently lives in Brooklyn, New York. Prehistoric Creatures / Birthdays / Ages 3-13 Hardcover, 10-3/10 x 10-2/5 inches, 32 pages ISBN: 978-1-57687-841-5, $17.99 US/CAN High-res scans to your specification are available upon request; scanning from the book or lifting images from the mechanical file are strictly prohibited. Mandatory credit line: From Don't Ask a Dinosaur by Deborah Bruss & Matt Forrest Esenwine with illustrations by Louie Chin, published by POW! Kids Books.

Chatting with Rickey Smiley Show's Cast

Rickey Smiley, Brandon Smiley his son, The Brat, Roger Bob executive producer.  

 Lamar Chase, TV One Production
Roger Bob, talks about season 4 bigger better and bolder.  Expanded cabinet members Gary and Ed lover helping Rickey go thru the dating scene, directing on a game show, close friend that is diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and how he deals with that.

Craig and DeEssence not in school have to move back in with her dad from Miami, dating the Brat's artist and how she is dealing with growing up,
Brandon into comedy
craig dating and going to college

Brat always got something going on, going back to prison and giving back
Gary infatuated with BEyonce' pregnant
added Ed Lover to the cast
bigger and better this year
so many story lines this season
]comedy and drama

Ricky talked about Craig graduating HS the kids growing into young adults
Love and hate with the morning show
a lot of funny stuff
really good content
teachable moments
he is truly excited and thanks bobcat films
and TV one for the opportunity

Ricky,  One thing that stand out -- daddy81 and -granddaddy 91 and in a cadillac going to Golden Corral with them acting like lamont and fred sanford funny and natural classic best scene to him

Lamar, with TVone what do you think the audience will relate too
RIcky 2 families the radio and home family, real teachable moments, bumps and bruises with family and how the adjust and how they grow up, how Ricky adjust to that.

The Brat------ hilarious saw a side that she was unfamiliar with, talk about what we will see from her this season.
The incarceration,---when she was in prision she did a talent show, they got to express them selves different, she gets to go back  you can;t get to visit if you are a convicted felon been out since 2011 and she got to go back the sleeping conditions, talking to the women, saw someone that was locked up with her and had gotten locked up again and she talked the this person to see why she got locked up again.
What helped you transition and get back to yourself after your transition;  my fans wrote me letters, family came to see her every week, when you have a purpose you have to be motivated

Brandon---- you and your siblings have been the staples in this series, how do you think you have grown during this time on the series
A blessing being on this show with my dad and little brothers, people come up to him on the street and say they understand and know what he is going thru and are inspired by him and all the things he is going thru on the this is real life  They are not they same people as they were in the first season its like therapy to them and they needed and brought the family closer together, real things they are going thru that people can learn from their family.

why is family so important right now--- from the point of view conversations about life, at the end of the day you need a foundation that everyone needs.
Ricky
Good positive show that you can watch with kids or grand kids they put a lot of hard work into the show, more positive things

@tvone @rickeysmileyforreal

The Brat, amaxing family show, in and out of family music business, see they are real people and relateable one big family go thru situations encourage everyone to watch the show, laugh cry
experience the resolve