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ARISS Weekly Status Report - April 27, 2020

4/27/2020

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  • April 20: A team of educators who are members of the ARISS-US Education Committee reviewed 15 ARISS Education Proposals from US schools and education groups. The proposals were submitted during the first 2020 ARISS-US Proposal Window and are being considered for education groups to host a future ARISS contact.  Earlier, the team had prepared a news release that was distributed to NASA EXPRESS and other outlets, and they also supported two webinars for interested educators.

  • April: For several months, students from the North Virginia Schools Group in Woodbridge, VA have taken part in teacher-led STEM activities, and more recently, via e-learning. The activities were part of preparation for their upcoming ARISS contact with students taking part from home. Youth learned about space, stars, and Mars. They discussed the horizon line and how ISS communications can be heard only when Woodbridge is “in the footprint.”  They listened to an ARISS contact being held at a Pennsylvania school.

  • March: An ARISS teacher at Council Rock South High School in Richboro, PA reported that months after their December ARISS contact, students continued to be enthused about space, communications, and the school ham club. Prior to mid-March when the school’s e-learning began, students designed a new banner and ham club member totals went from 5 to 30.  In February, a reporter came to school to do a story and quoted the teacher who called the ARISS events “the highlight of my 26 years in teaching” and saying, “I’ve never seen kids so vested in doing something.”  The Newtown Gazette article is at:  http://www.timespub.com/2020/02/03/cr-south-radio-club-talks-to-iss-a-second-time/

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  • April 30:  The Northern Virginia Schools Group in Woodbridge, VA will take part in a Multipoint Telebridge via Amateur Radio contact with Chris Cassidy.  This radio contact is re-configured to have students engage from their homes via videoconference, as schools are closed. This plan to accommodate social distancing is the first ARISS contact of this type.

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ARISS Weekly Status Report - April 20, 2020

4/20/2020

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  • April 6: ARISS teacher Melissa Pore took part in virtual meetings with ScaN staff members and a number of education leaders on subjects such as radio telescopes, CubeSats and ARISS.  Also discussed were the development of lessons plans related to ARISS and amateur radio space communications.
 
  • March 7: ARISS volunteer Will Marchant gave a presentation that included ARISS at the 2020 National Association of Rocketry’s annual conference (NARCON) held in Tucson, AZ.  He talked to an audience of 20 about ARISS and amateur radio in hobby rocketry.  A number of ARISS teachers have gotten students involved in hobby rockets that utilize ham radio for transmitting telemetry and Slow Scan TV color images.

  • April 10: ARISS volunteer Melissa Pore KM4CZN continues to correspond with educators she met while hosting an exhibit table on behalf of ARISS at a February social networking event sponsored by the ISS National Lab Space Station Explorers at Space Center Houston.  The educators are interested in ARISS and most are in the US though a few are in other countries. They network via Facebook.
 
  • April 13: A long article about ARISS was posted by ARRL (American Radio Relay League) on its web news page. The article, based on Frank Bauer’s post on ARISS’s web pages, described how ARISS is transforming activities to be done with infinite social distancing due to COVID-19 for students and education institutions.  ARRL ran the story also in its online weekly newsletter and on Twitter.  At last check, over 50 online radio news outlets around the US and the world had picked up the story.
 
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  • April 21:  The ARISS team will test a plan to transform ARISS contacts and how ARISS interacts with youth and education institutions through e-learning with every student and staff member in their own homes.


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ARISS Weekly Status Report - April 13, 2020

4/13/2020

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  • April 7: ARISS teacher Joanne Michael and her students in Los Angeles, CA do balloon launches each year. After some discussions within ARISS on this idea, she challenged Ted Tagami of Magnitude.io (a Space Station Explorers program, like ARISS) in San Francisco to an intercontinental high altitude balloon race.  Each educator plans to launch from their locations a balloon that uses amateur radio/APRS (Automatic Packet Reporting System) to downlink the balloon telemetry. Launches are set tentatively for June 1 at exactly the same minute; the winning balloon would be the first to reach the East Coast time zone. While still in the formative stage, the educators plan for students around the globe to be able to track and receive data such as location, height, temperature from each balloon in real time. The ARISS team plans to set up a website area to post interactive activities based on student age. Teachers and parents can excite at-home youth to track the states each balloon travels through and graph altitude vs temperature, etc.  To verify the capability, Joanne plans a balloon launch prior to June 1 so the ARISS team can perform an end-to-end test of the system. More news will follow.

  • March-April: Pearl STEM Academy in Peoria, IL hosted a July 2018 ARISS contact. Students continue to be interested in space, even when home.  The academy’s ARISS volunteer posts Facebook items for students, including many NASA videos and stories. Recent posts were how to access NASA’s “Home for Students” activities and the Story Time From Space reading by Anne McClain of Ada Lace, Take Me to Your Leader.

  • March-April: ARISS volunteer Brian Jackson teaches sixth grade in Alberta, Canada. His students had taken part in ISS National Lab Space Station Explorers’ Tomatosphere and a rainbow trout project prior to having to stay home.  He’s now e-teaching and students are receiving his weekly video of how the living things are doing.  In past years, Brian helped his students make ARISS contacts with Chris Hadfield and Robert Thirsk.
 
 
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  • April: The ARISS team continues to test and firm up a plan to transform ARISS contacts and how ARISS interacts with youth and education institutions. ARISS will provide distance learning with every student and staff member in their own homes (even quarantined).


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ARISS Weekly Status Report - April 6, 2020

4/6/2020

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  • March 27: ARISS Italian team member Gianpietro Ferrario has been collaborating with the Deep Space Amateur Astronomers Group and the Planetarium of Lecco, in Lecco, Italy.  A YouTube virtual learning tour of the ISS was created and Gianpietro gave a talk that was livestreamed covering the functionality of ISS modules, service craft (i.e. the Soyuz and Dragon), and the ARISS radios. His talk expounded the aspects of ARISS operations and ARISS future planning for Gateway. Livestream stats showed 419 views and the chat room had comments from adults who were watching with their children. One teacher who does e-school helped 100 of her school’s students watch the program the next day.

  • April 2: Frank Bauer and Rosalie White took part in a telecon with SCaN leaders to discuss possibly collaborating with NASA TV during the stay-home era.  ARISS readily agreed to the idea and quickly provided some pre-recorded programming about ARISS schools and the ARISS program.  SCaN will review the programming.  If it is suitable, SCaN will offer the options to NASA TV to consider broadcasting as at-home learning opportunities for teachers and parents to use with youth.
 
  • April 2: The ARISS-US team continues to progress with plans to test and finalize the first of its several initiatives to transform how ARISS interacts with students and education institutions during the COVID era.  Per the mitigation ideal, ARISS team members will interact with infinite social distancing and engage virtually with each student and staff member in their own homes (even quarantined). More details will be shared soon.
 
  • March 31: An ARISS radio contact planned for students of Amur State University in Blagoveshchensk, Russia was cancelled.

  • April: The newest issue of the monthly journal, The Spectrum Monitor, contained a three-page article about STEM and STEAM by an ARISS enthusiast and supporter.  The writer pulled in a great deal of examples of hands-on student activities ARISS teachers have led, and he quoted Rosalie White on how teachers find sound ways to include the arts in their STEM projects.
 
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