A Celestial Event Marks the First Day of School at the Brand New School

What better way to kick off the first day of school at a brand new campus than with a celestial event. The celestial event is a solar eclipse in which the moon passes between the sun and Earth and blocks all or part of the sun for up to about three hours, from beginning to end, as viewed from a given location.  For this eclipse, the longest period when the moon completely blocks the sun from any given location along the path will be about two minutes and 40 seconds.  The last time the contiguous U.S. saw a total eclipse was in 1979.

The Space Science Institute (SSI) was awarded a grant from the Moore Foundation that provided 1.26 million FREE eclipse glasses and other resources for 1,500 public libraries across the nation. In turn, the Laredo Public Library provided glasses to incoming 3rd-5th graders at our brand new UISD Freedom Elementary campus to view the partial eclipse safely. 

Thank you Analiza Perez-Gomez, Librarian from the McKendrick Ochoa Salinas Branch Library Laredo Public Library, for being our partner in education.