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STARFLEET Medical Proxima Centauri Step Challenge

September 1, 2024 - September 30, 2024

We at STARFLEET Medical are very excited to offer this fleet-wide challenge that is open to all members of SFI, regardless of whether or not you are a member of STARFLEET Medical. Each month, we will travel along another leg of our journey to explore and establish a human colony in the Proxima Centauri system.

Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star that is 4.2 light years away from Earth. As of 2022, two exoplanets are known to exist within the system: Proxima Centauri B & Proxima Centauri D. Proxima Centauri B orbits within the habitable zone which means that liquid water can exist, allowing for the possibility of life, or at the very least the ability of the planet to support a human colony. The purpose of our mission will be to travel to the Proxima Centauri system with a colony ship, establish the start of a human colony on Proxima Centauri B and return home.

One of the purposes of STARFLEET Medical is to encourage increased physical activity, so our individual goal as participants will be to travel an average of 8000 steps per day. We hope that you choose to join us for our trip to Proxima Centauri so that we can enjoy the journey together while we individually maintain a higher quality of life!

Participation rules:
• The step challenge will take place from March to December, 2024.
• The challenge is open to all members of SFI. You do not have to be a member of STARFLEET Medical to participate.
• Participants can join at any point along the journey
• Participants will keep track of their own steps each week and then report that total to their Regional Assistant Surgeon General. If you do not know who your Regional ASG is, please consult the Office of the Surgeon General Current Serving Officers website
• The only units that will be accepted are STEPS. Please do not submit calories, activity time or any other units other than steps. They will not be accepted.
• Participants in regions that are not staffed with an ASG, can report directly to the Deputy Surgeon General by using this form
• Steps must be reported within 48 hours of the end of the activity period. Late submissions will not be accepted –THIS IS A HARD DEADLINE – NO EXCEPTIONS.
• If you are unsure that you will be able to report your steps on time, report them early.
• Certificates will be generated within 7 days and returned to ASGs for distribution to participants in their region.
• Two certificates will be available: 1. Recognition of completion of the monthly goal of 8000 steps per day 2. Recognition of effort for members that were unable to achieve 8000 steps per day.

We hope you’ll join us for this long-term challenge

September 2024: “ARRIVE AT PROXIMA CENTAURI B” 

As we slowed our speed and moved closer and closer to our destination planet Proxima Centauri B, our new home came into sharper view. It is beautiful and although the terrain is distinctly different than Earth’s, there is also an odd familiarity. A pristine blue and green marble teeming with life, while floating against the stark backdrop of infinite blackness. Our equipment is ready, our personnel are ready and upon achieving orbit, we will begin the work of moving humanity onto it’s second home. A move that will ensure the survival of our species in the harsh environment of space and the civilization-ending cataclysms that can wipe out life in a single stroke. After travelling 4 light years in 18 years, we’re finally able to begin construction of our habitat on Proxima Centauri B. Construction and transportation of personal and supplies will take approximately 5 years. After that time, a skeleton crew will return our spacecraft to Earth.

“Helmsman; initiate orbital insertion around Proxima Centauri B and signal to all ships that we should prepare for transportation of equipment and personal to the surface”.

 

The schedule for September will be:
Week 1: September 1st to September 6th
Week 2: September 7th to September 13th
Week 3: September 14th to September 20th
Week 4: September 21st to September 30th

 

Once the week ends, you will total up the steps you have travelled over that period. You will then have 48 hours to submit those steps to your Regional ASG (ie. Week 1 ends on Friday, July 5th, therefore you have until Midnight PST on July 7th to submit your steps). Any steps submitted after that time will not be accepted. Please submit steps and only steps, no other units will be accepted.

 

If you do not know who your Regional ASG is, please consult the following website: https://medical.sfi.org/office-of-the-surgeon-general/serving-officers/

 

If your region does not have an ASG, please submit your steps using the following form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOFfOYPqv6BRHndwmQhRjE-1na3AJRsCSgEKcldbQtT8yAqw/viewform

 

After years of travelling the cosmos, we’ve finally arrived at our destination. Can you believe it?!?!?!

 

Dr. Wade Poitras
Deputy Surgeon General
STARFLEET Medical

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