The center has a computer lab, resource area, health and nutrition center, weather station, and television broadcast facilities, as well as the Challenger Center Classroom Simulator, the first of its kind in the United States. The school also has computer stations in each classroom. The school opened with a student enrollment of 550 students and is anticipating an opening enrollment of over 750 students in September, 2000. Buzz Aldrin Elementary School focuses on science and technology. In addition to the core body of knowledge, Aldrin students are taught how to learn in order to function successfully in a rapidly changing technological age.
Technology serves as the medium through which the entire populations learn.
Dr. Aldrin's speech was since entered into the Congressional Record. The excitement of Aldrin continues into the 2000-2001 school year.