Monday
October 14, ARISS contact scheduled with school in
An
International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants
at Ecole Francaise Jacques Prevert,
The
contact will be a direct between OR4ISS and 6V7SPACE.
Jacques Prevert, a private mixed French Primary and Secondary
school (ages 3 to 18) located in
Ambitious teaching
and achievement levels, coupled with an open-school cultural policy
targeting both Senegalese and international partnerships within the
framework of the French overseas network of schools (AEFE),
combine to enrich and enhance the quality of the school’s educational
program.
During
the past school year 2012-2013, all school classes participated to inter-disciplinary
research and learning about Space and the ISS. The ARISS project belongs
to the Current General School Project « Opening up to the outside
world », founded on activities encouraging pupils to discover and open up
to other people and more generally to the realities of the outside world. The
project, originally intended for secondary school pupils (6th, 7th, 8th,
9th and 10th grade), has evolved to encompass all classes at Jacques Prevert, as many exhibitions and activities were presented
by pupils of both secondary and primary schools.
Furthermore,
educational activities, preparing for the radio contact with the International
Space Station, helped pupils improving their knowledge of the English
language. This will no doubt lead to better understanding and
discovery of new fields of international scientific exchange, mainly
written in English.
In order
to satisfy the fast growing expansion, the school is currently conducting
a six month reconstruction program. All new buildings are scheduled to be
inaugurated in December 2013.
The radio
contact is expected to be conducted in English.
Participants
will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. Tess (10): How do you control your body movements in
weightlessness?
2. Fatou (12): How are you able to keep your sense of time
without the rhythm of daylight and night-time?
3. Kymsy (14): What made you decide to become an astronaut?
4.
Leonie (14): Has your body grown longer since you arrived on board the ISS?
5. Yona (14): Can solar wind expose astronauts to any specific
dangers when they operate outside the station?
6. Zehlia (7): In case of illness or injury, can the
astronauts receive medical treatment or be evacuated?
7. Kenza (8): Can weightlessness become tiresome in the long
run?
8.
Eloise (15): Do you have time to relax with any leisure activities?
9. Julien (17): Has your outlook on the world changed since
you have been in space?
10. Mouhamed (13): How long will it take you to be able to walk
properly again once back on the earth?
11. Oulimata (11): What would you do if a comet or a meteorite
was heading directly towards the ISS?
12. Tom
(14): What influence does your state of mind have upon social behavior on board the ISS?
13.
Laura (15): What are the most common and most worrying problems that can occur
on board the ISS?
14.
Louis-Samba (13): When you get back to earth, do you think your view towards
life will have changed?
15. Leo
(17): Can you transmit warning messages if your instruments predict the
formation of a natural disaster somewhere on the Earth?
16. Leeloo (13): What are the requirements to become an
astronaut?
17. Morian (10): Is your diet appetizing or difficult to
follow? What food on earth do you miss the most?
18.
Anne-Marie (12): How are you able to venture out of the station while it is
orbiting the earth at a speed of 17000 miles an hour?
19. Emma
(12): Do you miss your family?
20. Jade
(14): How long is the training to become an astronaut?
ARISS is
an international educational outreach program partnering the participating
space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the
AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.
ARISS
offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur
Radio by talking directly with crewmembers onboard the International Space
Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio
and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology
and learning.
73,
Gaston Bertels – ON4WF
ARISS-Europe chairman