ARISS contact
for school in Poland
An
International Space Station contact is planned for Nowogard
Union Schools: Junior High School No. 2, Nowogard,
Poland
The event is
scheduled for Tuesday 29 September at 12.56 UTC, which is 14.56 CEST. This will
be a telebridge contact between NA1SS and LU1CGB.
The event will
be webcast on http://ariss.pzk.org.pl/live/
Nowogard Union Schools consists of two schools: Junior High School No 2
and II High School. The school is situated in Nowogard
in West Pomernia Province. Our students are 13 19 years old. II High School provides
students mainly with humanities, science and mathematics curriculum.
In December
2013 the schools joined the ARISS School Contacts project. In 2004 the Nicolaus
Copernicus School Amateur Radio called SP1KMK was established. Since then our
students have been keenly developing their radio ham interests. Students have
taken part in astronomy and astronautics projects such as: MiniSat
(they sent their own experiments in near space via balloons thanks to
Copernicus Project Foundation), EarthKam (pupils
ordered images of Earth taken from the ISS). There was also an educational
project called “SUPERCOMPUTER” in which our students gained some knowledge of
the latest wireless networking technologies.
Apart from the
above projects, they have made numerous astronomical observations and got
involved in astrophotography. Moreover, we hosted some members of Polish
Amateur Astronomers Society who showed at the school the largest amateur
telescope called “SOWA”. Within the project, Nowogard
Union Schools started to cooperate with some institutes of higher education
such as West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin and University of
Szczecin. We also has established cooperation with NASA staff and conducted a
video conference with a NASA astronauts’ trainer and a NASA flight engineer.
There have been some school trips to 21. Air Force Base in Świdwin
and Dolna Odra Power Station in Gryfino
organized to expand students’ technological and technical knowledge.
Participants
will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. Weronika (14): What kind of technology is used to have
Internet on the station?
2. Mateusz
(16): What is the shortest time to leave the station, for example in case of
sending back to Earth a seriously ill astronaut?
3. Konrad
(15): In your opinion, what module of the ISS is the most heavily loaded with
electronics and what tasks does it serve?
4. Radosław
(16): Does the station have cosmic rays
detectors and how do they indicate that the radiation dose inside the station
is higher than acceptable?
5. Damian
(15): What astronauts have to do in case of fire on the station?
6. Jakub
(14): Do astronauts have free time?
7. Kornelia (13): What is the composition and pressure of the
atmosphere inside the space station?
8. Norbert
(15): What is the most interesting or astonishing Earth atmospheric phenomenon
you have ever observed?
9. Szymon (14): What is the most difficult task you did on the
station?
10. Norbert
(18): Do all members of the crew sleep
at the same time?
11. Kacper (17): Is it true that pizza and carbonated drinks
are forbidden on the ISS? Could you explain why?
12. Hubert
(17): How is the station provided with electricity?
13. Oktawiusz (15): What are negative symptoms of being under
Zero Gravity for too long?
14. Izabela
(17): Is everyone on the station trained to take a spacewalk, if necessary?
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