ARISS contact for two French schools
An International Space Station school contact has been
planned with participants at Collège Paul Langevin, Saint Junien, France,
direct via F8KFZ/P and Ecole La Malmaison”,
Rueil-Malmaison, France, direct via F6KFA/p on 19 Mar. The event is scheduled
to begin at approximately 08:17 UTC.The duration of
the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds.
The contact should be audible over France and adjacent
areas. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.800 MHz downlink.
The contact is expected to be conducted in French.
School Information:
Presentation Collège Paul Langevin
The College Paul Langevin,
situated in the town centre of Saint-Junien in the west of the Haute Vienne and the Limousin (400 Km south of Paris), is a former primary
school that became a general mixed college in 1964. The college follows a
general teaching syllabus and a further syllabus for teaching children of
special needs. The college is composed of 6 sixth year classes, 5 fifth year
classes, 5 fourth year classes and 4 third year classes. Languages taught are:
English, German, Spanish and Latin. The college also has an athletic syllabus.
This school year 2014-2015, the college has 615 students split over the four
years. This includes the special needs children who benefit from inclusion in
class life. 64 Students are in this special needs program. These students have
significant and persistent difficulties in terms of academic learning but do
not have intellectual disabilities.
Presentation Ecole “La Malmaison”
The elementary school “La Malmaison”
is located in the department of “Hauts-de-Seine” in
the city of Rueil-Malmaison, about 15 Km west of Paris, and 10 km away from the
Versailles Palace. The school is
surrounded by famous historic places:
The Castle of Malmaison (where
Napoleon Bonaparte and his wife Josephine de Beauharnais lived at the end of
the 18th Century), the banks of River Seine, depicted by famous Impressionist
painters (Renoir, Manet and Monet) at the end of the
19th century, the Mount Valerien, with its national
memorial of 2nd World War French combatants, the National Archeologic museum in
the Castle of St Germain-en-Laye city nearby.
The target of this ARISS project is to encourage the
children to study scientific activities like the life aboard the ISS, the solar
system, the day & night caused by earth rotation, electricity experiences,
the air quality on earth, and on the ISS, the weight on earth and the
zero-gravity in space…
This ARISS project is an opportunity to visit the Radio
amateur Club Station of Rueil-Malmaison (F6KFA) and discover their experiences
on radio waves phenomena, learn the Morse code…
Participants will ask as many of the following questions as
time allows:
1. Combien de temps vous faut-il pour vous
habituer à la vie dans la
station?
2. Quels sont vos loisirs à bord?
3. Avez-vous emmené un objet personnel dans
l'espace?
4. Faites-vous des expériences en commun ou bien
chacun a-t-il son module et
ses propres expériences
pour son pays?
5. Que mangez vous?
6. Depuis combien de temps êtes
vous
dans l'espace?
7. Que ressentez vous,
lorsque vous êtes en apesanteur?
8. Est-ce qu’il est possible d’aller dans l’ISS
quand on a un handicap
physique?
9. Quelle est la plus belle chose que vous ayez vu dans l’espace?
10. Avez
vous un engin de secours pour revenir sur terre en cas d'urgence?
11. Êtes-vous angoissée à l'idée de ne pas
redescendre sur terre?
12. Comment devenir astronaute ? Quelles études avez-vous
faites?
13. Parlez
vous souvent à votre famille?
14. Comment vous brossez vous les dents?
15. Il paraît que quand on revient de l'espace,
on ne peut pas marcher,
combien de temps
dure cet état?
16. Combien de fois vérifiez-vous votre santé
dans l'ISS?
17. Qu'est ce qui vous
a donné envie de devenir astronaute?
18. J’ai lu que l’ISS n’allait plus être utilisée en 2017. Est -ce
que
c’est vrai ? Et y
aura-t-il alors la construction d'une autre station?
19. Quel est le plus gros danger de l'espace?
20. Quelle expérience faites-vous en ce moment?
ARISS is an international educational outreach program
partnering the volunteer support and leadership from AMSAT and IARU societies
around the world with the ISS space agencies partners: NASA, Russian Space
Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA.
ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the
excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board 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