Computer Science – Robotics
Scientific paper
Oct 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007dps....39.2706l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #39, #27.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 39, p.463
Computer Science
Robotics
Scientific paper
Northern Arizona University is entering its fourth year of offering a high altitude balloon satellite program designed for middle and high school students. The program, called Changes in Altitudes, was originally piloted by the NAU Space Grant, a member of the Arizona Space Grant Consortium, and is currently being supported by the University of Arizona's Phoenix Mars Mission as a robotics strand of its Education and Public Outreach program. Each year, ten schools from across Arizona, selected on a competitive basis, are invited to form teams of fours student each to design and build payloads that they will fly on a high altitude weather balloon up to 100, 000 ft above sea level. The baseline payload consists of 6-inch cube containing a pressure data logger, a temperature/relative humidity data logger, and a small film camera that is modified to take photographs approximately every three minutes during the flight. The students track the balloon from launch through burst to touch down. They recover their payloads in the field to retrieve the pressure and temperature profiles of the atmosphere and the images of the Earth recorded during the flight. A post-flight debriefing allows students to see and share their data with students from the other schools. Each school is participates in four flights over a period of two years allowing up to 16 students from each school to experience the project. In addition, the teachers are provided a training workshop and launch to prepare them for leading their student teams. In this poster, examples of student data are presented and the failures and successes are discussed, along with the challenges associated with offering such a program at the pre-college level. The handbook used for teacher training will be available, along with words of encouragement to build a similar program in your state.
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