July 11-15:  ARISS Director of Education Kathy Lamont and ARISS educator Kelly Cammarano gave short talks about ARISS on day two of a professional development seminar for educators. They explained a little about the ARISS program, resources on ARISS’ web pages for educators, the ARISS Education Proposal, and the timeframe that ARISS will open the next window to accept proposals.  The American Radio Relay League, one of ARISS’ sponsors, put on the week-long seminar in Newington, CT for eight educators from around the US.  They did hands-on lessons on satellite communications; sensors and an Arduino board—programming sensors on a breadboard to collect and transmit data to be shared by APRS (automatic packet reporting system); and working with that data—how to plot and analyze it. The women felt they could take many of the hands-on STEM lessons back to their classrooms. Kathy, from Virginia, and Kelly, from California, have each hosted ARISS contacts in the past at their schools.
 
July 19-22: The 2022 ARISS-International working group held its annual meeting (online) of world ARISS Officers, ARISS Delegates, and ARISS volunteers. 34 of the team attended. Areas represented by team members were Australia, Japan, Canada, the US, and many countries in Europe. Day 1 presentations included an overview of the last 12 months of ARISS’ successes such as great outcomes from lessons done with US and European students, and some of ARISS’ planning and activities leading to future major projects. Day 2 and Day 3 topics focused on three main areas that define ARISS’ initiatives dealing with education, operations, and development. An update was shared on all education programs funded by grants won in 2021, such as the development of hands-on electronic kits that enhance the introducing of electronics in the classroom. Progress was reported on the ARISS *STAR* program where students will engage in tele-robotics and using ham radio to control the robots. A talk on operations covered several ARISS activities such as the very popular Slow Scan TV (SSTV—picture links), events that educators report have proven to spark students’ interest in ISS operations. The last day of the meeting included future plans and activities to consider and the 2023 meeting.
 
July 21: During a spacewalk, Oleg Artemyev deployed 10 satellites on behalf of the ARISS-Russia team. Sergey Samburov, leader of the team, monitored the deployment from Russia’s Mission Control area. Students at South West State University (SWSU) in Kursk built eight of the satellites and students at Ryazan State Radio Engineering University built two of the satellites. Details about the satellites were in an earlier weekly report.
 
July 21: ARISS learned about viewer numbers of the “Amateur Space Radio” episode of Houston, We Have a Podcast, which first aired on July 7. The podcast featured Courtney Black, of the ISS National Lab, talking about her past experience as a teacher who hosted an ARISS contact. Metrics received are:

• Apple Podcasts—garnered 1,600 unique listeners
• SoundCloud—received 350 plays and
• Google got 250 plays.
  

July 23: An ARISS contact was hosted for people taking part in the Celebration of the frigate "Nadezhda," in Vladivostok, Russia. Listeners learned about ARISS and heard cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev support the ARISS radio contact. The ARISS-Russia team coordinated the activity.  
 
 
ARISS Upcoming Events 

July 28: Buehler Challenger & Science Center, Paramus NJ  ARISS contact, ARISS-US team

July 13: Students who took part in STEM activities that are held at Il Cielo Itinerante (ICI) spoke with Samantha Cristoforetti during an ARISS radio contact; she answered 19 questions. For the contact, the ICI had invited youth from various Italian cities to come to the Italian Space Agency (ASI) in Matera, Italy, which hosted the contact events. ICI has close ties to the ASI’s Center for Space. 200 people attended the event and 194 watched the livestream. ARISS-International Vice Chair Oliver Amend wrote that ESA Education staff appreciated the ARISS-US team who, in very early morning hours, operated the ARISS radio telebridge station at Goddard Space Flight Center to support the contact. He added, “This was an important event for the ARISS-Europe team because of its collaboration with ESA Education.” ICI, an Italian non-profit association, was established with the goal of providing STEM classes to disadvantaged children ranging in age 9 to 14. ICI visits all regions of Italy to work with students where the need is greatest, setting up practical science lessons and professional telescopes for guided observations of the sky. 
  
July 13: The 2nd Sayama Group Saitama Council Scouts Association of Japan in Saitama hosted an ARISS contact for girl scouts and boy scouts of various ages who spoke with Kjell Lindgren. He answered 16 different scouts’ questions. An audience of nearly 100 watched the action, including 15 scout leaders and ham radio volunteers. The YouTube garnered 99 views; the URL is (begin at 1:07 minutes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-bWCL_xzpE. Media representatives covering the event came from a cable TV station and an area newspaper. During the day of the ARISS contact, the scout association sponsored a class on electrical topics and on earning an amateur radio license, and prior to the contact, youth participated in scout activities related to space, electricity, and amateur radio.  
 
July-August: The Buehler Challenger & Science Center in Paramus, NJ, will host an ARISS contact in late July. The Center planned summer STEM camps for three weeks in July and early August for youth in kindergarten through high school. Activities for girls of middle school age, and boys and girls of junior high and high school age, included simulated space missions in the Center’s simulators, building and launching model rockets, learning about “barrier-breaking women in STEM,” designing and creating flying objects,  and design challenges.   
 
July 15: Students came to Ufa, Russia to participate in the 11th International Aerospace School named for test pilot and cosmonaut U.N. Sultanov. The young people studied a set of About Gagarin From Space lessons, and the highlight was an ARISS radio contact. Oleg Artemyev supported the ARISS contact; the ARISS-Russia team coordinated it.  
 
ARISS Upcoming Events 
 
July 19-22 ARISS-International Annual Meeting, online, full ARISS world team
July 21: Kitaogura Elementary School, Uji, Japan ARISS contact, ARISS-Japan team    

July 7:  For an episode named Amateur Space Radio, host Gary Jordan of NASA’s “Houston, We Have a Podcast” interviewed Education Project Manager Courtney Black at the ISS National Lab (INL). Prior to joining INL in 2020, she taught at a school that hosted an ARISS contact.  The podcast covered many facets of ARISS, her school experiences coordinating the ARISS contact, and how it had come about. She recalled that beforehand, she’d suggested to her school a year-long space curricula; the idea was put on hold. A while later, the nearby Ft. Myers Radio Club contacted the school district about ARISS contacts. The district brought Black and the club together and soon, she submitted an ARISS Education Proposal, and then her school was selected for a contact.  During this podcast she re-counted things that happened during the ARISS contact and ended with sharing a former student’s comment, a junior at the time. The young lady told a news reporter, “…this was the catalyst; this was what started me on my trajectory to become an astronaut.” Black said, “…it wasn’t until I saw how it [ARISS] ignited their passions that I realized space inspires: it reaches everyone.”
 
June 24-26: The ARISS-Europe team put on a strong presence at Ham Radio 2022, an annual convention in Friedrichshafen, Germany with attendance totaling 10,200. ARISS-International Vice Chair Oliver Amend presented three ARISS talks from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club (DARC) national organization’s stage in the main conference hall. The education forums covered lesson ideas and the Matthias Maurer ARISS school contacts, and one forum was an in-depth seminar. A fourth forum was on doing experiments tied to space. For a fifth forum, Amend invited the Johannes-Kepler Gymnasium (German high school) students and staff to talk about the ARISS contact they hosted. Attendance at all presentations totaled 280. The ARISS team staffed an exhibit booth and talked to 250 people, including some from ESA. ARISS shared a booth with Germany’s AMSAT society that had helped with Maurer’s ARISS school contacts. Booth staff included Amend, ARISS educator Mic Ivancic, DARC’s education team, AMSAT members, and AATiS (a German association of teachers and engineers who developed STEM activities using Amateur Radio on the ground and in space). 
 
July: The Eaton (CO) Public Library hosted an ARISS contact in June and the staff continues to advertise to the community a summer-long reading program tied to space. The library is also sponsoring its Starship Artemis Game Nights (in-person and online) for teens and adults. 
 
July 9: An ARISS radio contact took place at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University in Moscow, Russia.  More details will be available for next week’s report.
 
 
ARISS Social Media
 
June 2022--Top ARISS Facebook Reach and Top ARISS Tweet:  both, a post on a Slow Scan TV session
 
As of June 30, 2022, slight gains were made over May on each ARISS social media platform; total followers were:  

• ARISS Twitter—16,816
• ARISS Facebook—7,664
• ARISS Instagram—433
• ARISS YouTube—1.68k

June 2022 Facebook

ARISS Upcoming Events 
 
July 13 Il Cielo Itinerante, ASI Center for Space, Matera, Italy  ARISS contact, ARISS-Europe team
July 13 2nd Sayama Grp Saitama Council Scouts, Saitama Japan  ARISS contact, ARISS-Japan team
July 16 Celebration of Frigate Nadezhda, Vladivostok, Russia  ARISS contact, ARISS-Russia team   

June 27: An online show, “Tank Radio,” featured a talk with Frank Bauer. He discussed ARISS’ new education programs, details about the ARISS radio system on the ISS, and how Astronaut Kjell Lindgren has been making radio contacts with ham operators who are very thrilled to talk to him.  175 people watched the live podcast, and within four days, 40 more people had viewed the recording.
 
June 24-26 The ARISS-Europe team presented three stage talks, a forum, and a teachers’ seminar at Ham Radio 2022, a large annual convention held in Friedrichshafen, Germany. The team staffed an exhibit booth, also and more details will be available for next week’s report.
 
June 24: Frank Bauer networked with Courtney Black, Education Project Manager at the ISS National Lab, updating her on the latest on ARISS education programs. The updates were in preparation for her being on “Houston, We Have a Podcast” to talk about formal and informal teachers’ interest in ARISS. More details on the podcast will be in next week’s report.
 
July 19-22: The annual ARISS-International Meeting will be held via Zoom due to continuing COVID concerns. ARISS-International delegates and team members will present and discuss topics on operations, development, and education initiatives, among others. More information will follow in future reports.
 
 
ARISS Upcoming Events 

July 9 Bauman Moscow State Technical U., Moscow, Russia  ARISS contact, ARISS-Russia team
July 13 Il Cielo Itinerante, ASI Center for Space, Matera, Italy ARISS contact, ARISS-Europe team
July 16 Celebration of Frigate Nadezhda, Vladivostok, Russia  ARISS contact, ARISS-Russia team