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Bay View, WA- On Wednesday, October 14th, several Bay View Elementary School students in partnership with ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station), will get an opportunity to chat via amateur radio communications with Astronauts on the international space station.
According to Bay View Elementary Student Jordan Rogers, two students from each grade level were selected to get to talk to the astronauts on the radio via a drawing of names. Teachers handed out papers with stars on them. The students then wrote down the questions that they wanted to ask an Astronaut on the stars and cut the papers into Star Shapes that were then put on a large poster during an assembly. The students that had their names drawn will get to talk to the Astronauts and ask them the questions that they had wrote down. Jordan said “it was a fun experience because some people wrote down some really good questions.”
According to the ARISS website, the ARISS program inspires students, worldwide, to pursue interests and careers in science, technology, engineering and math through amateur radio communications opportunities with the International Space Station (ISS) on-orbit crew.
Students learn about life on board the International Space Station and explore Earth from space through science and math activities. ARISS provides opportunities for the school community (students, teachers, families and community members) to become more aware of the substantial benefits of human spaceflight and the exploration and discovery that occur on spaceflight journeys.
Students have the opportunity to learn about space technologies and the technologies involved with space communications through exploration of amateur radio.
The Program is an international program used in multiple countries, including, Europe, Russia, Canada, Japan and the United States.
Amateur Radio organizations, and space agencies sponsor this educational opportunity by providing the equipment and operational support to enable direct communication between crew on the International Space Station and students around the world via amateur Radio.
The ARISS website says there are hundreds of Amateur Radio operators around the world, that work behind the scenes to make these educational experiences possible for students around the world.
- A telebridge contact via IK1SLD with students at Bay View Elementary School in Burlington, Washington, USA is scheduled for Wed 2015-10-14 19:41:44 UTC 59 deg.
School Information as provided by the ARISS Website:
Bay View School in Burlington, Washington has been serving kindergarten through eighth grade students in the Burlington-Edison School District for 22 years. Named after the small community of Bayview, which was later incorporated by the town of Burlington, it serves mainly in-district neighborhood students. This year 562 students are enrolled. The town of Burlington is 66 miles north of Seattle, Washington. Located at the intersection of two major highways, Burlington serves as a retail and commercial hub for the region. Industry is mainly agricultural, retail, and commercial.
Over the past three years, Bay View has committed to becoming a school of inquiry. Through inquiry and collaboration, Bay View’s purpose is to nurture compassionate, creative, knowledgeable growth-minded world citizens, who pursue dreams and positively impact the future. Bay View continually inquires to understand one essential question. What do we need to understand, commit to and implement to prepare students to be career, college, and/or world ready for the 21st century? This journey has led them to begin creating concept-based units of inquiry at each grade level. Multi-disciplinary and intra-disciplinary units support school-wide connections through inquiry. The opportunity to ask questions of astronauts on the International Space Station was pursued as an experience that could spark students’ interest in space, engineering, technology, mathematics, and support a school-wide inquiry.
For more information on ARISS, please visit their website by clicking here
