19 water and around trees, rock walls and mountainous terrain. It had them smiling. “The flying game was fun,” Zach said. “You get to imagine that you are flying like a bird.” The Above and Beyond exhibit also offers interactive sites that allow participants to choose a planet, moon or asteroid to move to and explore, remove space junk from Earth’s Photo: Caroline Koysza, left, and her mom, Catherine, find great fascination with one of the 20 Above and Beyond stations. Dad and husband David Koysza is regional counsel for Boeing in Arlington, Va. Septembe r 2015 the future. I’m a physical learner and this was something that got its point across very well.” Ryan Chambers asked his mother, Kristen, a Boeing staff analyst, rather pointedly if he was going to be subjected to words and pictures once more on this particular museum visit. The third-grader was pleased to learn there was much more to the Above and Beyond exhibit, especially in the Full Throttle station. “I liked it because you could design your own plane and color it a different color,” Ryan said. “It was also really cool because you could go at supersonic speed.” His mother noted he “likes to build and he’s curious about how things are made—this was perfect for him.” Exhibit visitors initially are greeted by an interactive station far lighter in tone, but similarly popular: Spread Your Wings. Individuals step on circular prompts and their movements are mimicked by birds on a video screen in front of them. They can flap, fly, dive, turn right and turn left. Steve Rice, Boeing director of political mobilization, his wife, Robin, and grade-school-age sons Zach and Dylan each shared in the three-minute feathered flight. It had them passing over
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