🌱 Patch AM: Why NASA’s chief says Iowa State students are Artemis generation-ready

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In today's newsletter:

• Why NASA's chief says Iowa State students are Artemis generation-ready
• What Jimmy Rogers says Iowa State must fix before Cy-Hawk

Also on today's calendar: Pour Over 101 and 9 more events.

Today's riddle: Why did the burglar wear blue gloves? 🤔 (Answer below!)

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Weather forecast:

• Wednesday: Partly sunny and humid, with a high of 84 and low of 56 degrees.
• Thursday: Sunny and less humid, temps: high: 81, low: 56.
• Friday: Mostly sunny and breezy, with a high of 84 and low of 65 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• NASA administrator makes pitch to Iowa State students (radioiowa.com) — NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman visited Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory to urge local students to join what he calls the new Artemis-era space race. He described upcoming moon missions, a planned permanent lunar base, and highlighted ISU projects like CyLaunch and Cardinal Space Mining as direct pipelines into future NASA careers.
   

• Everything Jimmy Rogers said on Tuesday ahead of the Cy-Hawk Showdown (who13.com) — Iowa State football coach Jimmy Rogers, speaking from Ames, laid out how the Cyclones are preparing mentally and physically for Saturday night's Cy-Hawk showdown at Kinnick Stadium. He emphasized handling crowd noise, matching Iowa's physicality, rotating players to stay fresh, and cleaning up missed tackles and penalties after the season opener.
   

📸 Around Ames

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Ames

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★ Featured events ★

Wednesday September 9
• DOC TALK: Charlie Morris →
  KHOI Community Radio, 622 Douglas Avenue, Ames
  7:00 pm

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Other local events

Thursday September 10
• Pour Over 101 →
  Windmill Coffee, 2316 230th Street, Ames
• Senior Health Clinic: Ames →
  Sixty Forward Center, 205 S Walnut Ave, Ames
  9:30 am
• Terra Cotta Conservation in the Art on Campus Collection →
  Christian Peterson Art Museum, 1017 Morrill Hall, 603 Morrill Rd, Ames
  10:00 am
• Mourning Coffee →
  Sixty Forward Center, 205 S Walnut Ave, Ames
  10:00 am
• Congregate Meals →
  Sixty Forward Center, 205 South Walnut Ave, Ames
  11:30 am
• America 250: Prairie, Plows, and the People's College →
  Farm House Museum, 601 Farm House Lane, Ames
  12:00 pm
• Learn Mahjong Meet-Up →
  Sixty Forward Center, 205 S Walnut Ave, Ames
  1:00 pm
• Works by Maggie Douglas - Gallery in the Round →
  Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames, 1015 Hyland Ave, Ames
  1:00 pm
• Sixty Forward Orientation Session →
  Sixty Forward Center, 205 S Walnut Ave, Ames
  1:30 pm
• Fall Duckpin Bowling League →
  Sixty Forward Center, 205 S Walnut Ave, Ames
  2:00 pm
• Adult Craft Night: Mixed Media Magnets →
  Octagon Center for the Arts, 427 Douglas Avenue, Ames
  5:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

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• The 3M Company posted a job opening for Production Operator in Ames. Apply here.
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🗞 Nearby News

Nevada

• Iowa CSP, EQIP Application Deadline Set for Sept. 25 (morningagclips.com)

Boone

• Boone football rallies to edge Perry, 13-12 (kwbg.com)
• 10 things USDA announced at the Farm Progress Show (agweek.com)
• non-GMO oats (no-tillfarmer.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

P.S. The answer to today's riddle: So he wouldn't get caught red handed. (Thank you Vicki B. for sending it in!)
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