Wednesday 8 January, ARISS contact planned with school in
An International Space Station school contact has been planned Wednesday
8 January with participants at Zespoł Szkoł Technicznych,
The contact will be a direct between OR4ISS and
SP3POW. The contact is expected to
be conducted in English.
The contact will probably be broadcast on the livestream
video server at http://ariss.pzk.org.pl/live
School Information:
The Centre of Technical Schools in Ostrow Wielkopolski is a school
which educates future electronics and mechatronics
engineers, computer scientists and renewable energy specialists.
Our school has been cooperating with Polish
universities, electronic and mechatronic industrial
plants and schools in
Our students participate in various forms of
extra-curricular activities which develop their passions and interests. As a
result, they have created many interesting electronic and mechatronic
devices. For example, some of the recent constructions include fpv plane, a quadrocopter, a
stratospheric balloon capsule, some amateur radio equipment and many more.
Currently, the school has 800 students aged 16 -
19 years.
The Center of
Technical Schools has invited its younger mates (students 13 - 15 years old)
from Junior High School No. 1 named of Polish Nobel laureates in Ostrow Wielkopolski and 10 - 12
year-old students from
Preparations for the ARISS contact began in late
2011. A series of amateur radio classes were carried out so that students could
learn the rules of work on the radio. It was a very interesting experience to
carry out radio communications through amateur radio satellites and to take
photos from NOAA satellites. In addition, we monitored other radio signals from
space. Most emotions were from the radio contact with the ISS in the APRS
system and from listening to ARISS contacts of other schools in
The schools participating in the ARISS program
organized a series of events to promote various fields of science, particularly
those that are the most relevant for the development of astronautics.
Participants will ask as many
of the following questions as time allows:
1. Kasia (14): What
scientific experiments are carried out on the space station at present?
2. Michal (12): How
does the magnetic needle work in space?
3. Julia (12): How do you handle different
illnesses?
4. Piotr (15): How
would a pendulum clock work on board of the ISS?
5. Magda (13): Was
there anything that surprised or impressed you during your stay in space?
6. Oskar (15): What
was the largest mammal (except for humans) which was on the ISS?
7. Patrycja (13): How
do flying insects behave in zero gravity?
8. Blazej
(16): Do you know how many centimeters your body
lengthened in weightlessness?
9. Szymon (14): Is it
easy to use a pen or a fountain pen on the space station?
10.Oliwia (16): Do you
think that time in space passes faster?
11. Damian (18): How do you observe and explore
the Moon?
12. Jakub (15): What
or how did you feel when you saw the Earth from space for the first time?
13. Tomasz (15): Does Kirobo work well and fulfill its
mission on the ISS?
14. Jakub (16): Is it
hard to get used to weightlessness?
15. Arek (19): Is it
possible to be able to breed crystals in weightlessness?
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