Since our last update, we have completed a few more key aspects of the project.

We installed the presentation monitor and its support arm. Below is a photo of the finished product.

The monitor is attached by a quick disconnect to a retractable support arm as seen in the next photo.

The monitor support arm folds securely against the vehicle during travel.

We also installed water tank level sending units (the silver device with the black wire) on both water tanks to allow us to know at a glance how much water is in our tanks.

This is needed for the obvious reason that water is life for our animals and for us on multi-day excursions – and also because we use water as a ballast to balance out our load while the vehicle is underway.

The water level sending units send their signal to the same panel that reports the status of our solar power system – that fact made installation and use very easy.

On June 5th, 2022 the SS NaSA PoD mobile outreach classroom rolled out for its first official outreach program at a local girl’s camp! It was a wonderful success!

Watch the video below to see the PoD in action!

Since our first official outreach program, we have presented two more programs – one at a local boy’s camp, and another at a river festival – what follows are some photos from those wonderful events.

THANK YOU to everyone who has supported and is continuing to support this most unique environmental outreach education project – we are eternally grateful for your most generous support. You are all the greatest of heroes!!!

This amazing outreach education project will serve to inspire and educate all the curiosity seekers who discover it. But to do this right – we do still need your support. The next steps in working toward the completion of the PoD are outlined below and will most likely occur in the following order:

Installing the microscope* station.

Stocking the field guide library.

Updating the curtains and cushions with an appropriate theme.

Installing the 120/240 Volt “shore power” service.

Painting the PoD and installing appropriate decals/insignia.*

Installing the composting toilet.*

*These are our remaining needs. If you are interested in assisting us with a donation of these final items and/or the support needed for us to be able to complete this project – please do contact us directly or feel free to donate via the links below.  

Please consider supporting this project via the donate link on our website or our GoFundMe page:  www.gofundme.com/lets-build-a-mobile-outreach-classroom

If you do choose to assist us in making this project a reality, this unique mobile classroom will greatly benefit the nature, environment, and wildlife conservation education, evidence-supported science, reality, common sense, and renewable energy awareness education for all our outreach program participants in the WNC region as well as our wonderful students at Trails Carolina and Trails Momentum who will benefit from the unique wonders it will contain while they are in class and in the field on expedition. 

We will be sure to share any and all updates in posts on this blog, in our end-of-year newsletter, and on our YouTube channel so please consider subscribing to stay up to date on this wonderful project.

The SS NaSA PoD and the Mighty Bolt EV (our primary outreach vehicle) are owned by ENP (501c3) and used primarily as the ENP company outreach vehicle and mobile outreach classroom for ENP and our education partners Trails Carolina and Trails Momentum.  They will be powered and fueled primarily with cleanly-generated electricity provided by the ENP/Trails student-built classroom solar array and the SS NaSA PoD’s rooftop solar array. They will both serve as outstanding teaching tools for our Trails students and ENP outreach program participants.

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