What's one of your personal academic goals for this year? 

In-class, see clip from the concluding scenes of the film, The Martian, and then answer this question: When faced with a challenge, how do you “work the problem”? 

For our mini-poster inspiration this month, we'll watch the following clips from the 1995 film, Apollo 13, directed by Ron Howard. (Film available via Google Classroom.)

This will give us a context for words of flight director, Gene Kranz: “Failure is not an option.” These clips will help us understand that Kranz didn’t mean that failure was an impossibility. He just didn’t want the team to consider failure as one of the possible outcomes they were developing as a solution. They needed to work together - in space and on earth as they collaborated, problem solved, questioned, and challenged each other. They needed to, as Kranz says, "...work the problem."

•  “Houston, we have a problem." ( 0:50.50 - 0:54.44)

• "Failure is not an option." (1:08.07 – 1:17.48)

• Splashdown. (2:06.37 to end)

After you have viewed the clips, answer this question: How might this mindset be applied to your academic work?

Work Cited: 

Apollo 13. Directed by Ron Howard, Universal Pictures, 1995. 

How do you handle a setback?