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September 30: ARISS educator Diane Warner and seven members of her radio club, the All Things Amateur Radio Association (ATARA) of Lancaster, OH, took their STEM trailer with its ARISS and ham radio exhibits to WestFest in Columbus, OH.  WestFest, short for West Campus Science & Sustainability Festival, is Ohio State University’s annual STEM festival that offers around 40 hands-on STEM “activity booths” for kids.  ATARA set up 2 tables near their trailer in order to provide inside and outside activities. Undergrads of the Amateur Radio & RF Club of Ohio State University and the news editor for ARRL joined ATARA in staffing their exhibits. 80 kids and 60 adults engaged in the activities; two favorites: learning to use a multimeter to measure electrical resistance and putting together SnapCircuits® components resulting in an electrical circuit that made a buzzer sound. Diane wrote, “It was really cool watching these kids with their interest in STEM, trying their hand at activities we provided.” 

October 1: ARISS volunteer Dave Taylor set up an ARISS information table at the CARAFest ham radio convention in Columbia, MD.  He demonstrated the radio kit portion of the ARISS SPARKI education project and talked with attendees about STEM education, space communications, and general aspects of ISS life and activities.  He talked with 27 adults and 7 youth who were middle and high school age.

September 28: In Blagoveshchensk, Russia, students of the MAEI School No. 16, named after pilot-cosmonaut A.A. Leonov, went to the Amur State University for an ARISS contact to ask questions of Oleg Kononenko. The youths also learned about space and received career guidance. 30 people came for the contact sponsored by the ARISS-Russia team.

ARISS Social Media for September

ARISS social media leader Jim Reed reported September highlights:

• ARISS surpassed 30,000 Followers across all platforms—a record for us!
• In the past 12 months, total Followers increased by 17.2%.

ARISS Total September Social Media Metrics:

• ARISS X – Total Impressions / Views 110,296,  Interactions / Engagements 3,845 
• ARISS Facebook – Total Impressions 92,579,  Interactions / Engagements 3,031
• ARISS Instagram – Total Reach 6,153,  Interactions / Engagements 530
• ARISS Mastodon – Interactions / Engagements 71
• ARISS LinkedIn  –  281 Reactions     
• ARISS YouTube – Total Subscribers 1.96k

September Top Posts

The top post on both X and Facebook (14.5k and 9.01k respectively) described ways to engage with ARISS radios—an SSTV test and the digipeater. Top Instagram post touted Jasmin Moghbeli’s upcoming school contact. Top Mastodon post listed radio frequencies ARISS uses.

• Top X post: Impressions 14,578, Interactions / Engagements 702
• Top Facebook post: Impressions 9,010,  Interactions / Engagements 190
• Top Instagram post: Impressions 390, Interactions / Engagements 29
• Top Mastodon post: Interactions / Engagements 16

ARISS Upcoming Events
Oct 11: Sekolah Kebangsaan Wangsa Maju Seksyen, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia-ARISS contact, ARISS-Japan Team
Oct 13: Covenant Christian Academy, W. Peabody, MA-ARISS contact, ARISS-US Team

September 25:  Colegio Educación del Talento in Yerba Buena, Tucumán, Argentina supported an ARISS contact. A crowd of 115 students, volunteers and faculty watched youth as Andreas Mogensen answered 13 of their questions. 55 viewers tuned in to a livestream, which later garnered 100 other viewers. Prior to the contact, the online news sources La Gaceta and LaUnion published articles about the event, as did LV/12 radio and TV—the latter story is at

https://www.lv12.com.ar/colegio-educacion-del-talento/alumnos-del-colegio-educacion-del-talento-dialogaran-astronautas-n145761. LV/12 shared that the school rector said students could not believe it when they were notified of the chance to talk to an astronaut! The Radio Club of Tucuman prepared a teaser video that they posted 2 hours before the contact, which attracted a large number of viewers. The school strives to engage students in many extracurricular activities, among them a science club and multiple musical groups.

September 22: Escuela Preparatoria La Salle, a high school in Torreon Coahuila, Mexico hosted an ARISS contact with Jasmin Moghbeli, who answered 15 student questions. 400 people on hand witnessed this contact—the first one in Mexico! This school works with an elementary school, a middle school, and a university within the La Salle education group. All ages of students and guests crowded the university gym, even some from area public schools whose teachers asked to bring students “so more youth could enrich themselves from the experience.”  A girl who spoke with Moghbeli said she was “honored to be able to participate and ask the astronaut a question.” The ARISS radio telebridge station team streamed their actions controlling the radios and antennas, earning 190 live views and another 94 in two days’ time. The high school and Universidad La Salle Laguna posted news stories as did El Siglo de Torreon. An area resident and ham operator worked with the school to win this ARISS contact; his Twitter and Facebook posts garnered 545 views. La Salle students engaged in STEM-related activities and a conference with subject matter experts’ talks on astronomy and technology, such as José Manuel Pardo Regueiro’s talk, “Nuclear Physics and its Applications.”

September 21: Fifty people from the South West State University and State Technical University of Gomel successfully completed an ARISS contact with Sergey Prokopyev.  Mission Control-Moscow scheduled this ARISS contact and the ARISS-Russia team handled all other logistics including lessons on space. 

September 25:  Students at Harbor Creek School in Harborcreek, PA will get an early holiday present—a mid-December ARISS contact. Late last semester students engaged in a weather balloon launch and this week teacher Drew Mortensen and a student presented a program about it via Zoom to Livonia (MI) Amateur Radio Club.  The 42 members and guests heard about all aspects of students’ activities, in particular, the young group’s (named Advanced Technologies Group) work in building all parts of the balloon launch radio payload.

September 27: Youth traveled to the Technological University of Dublin (TUD), Ireland, and enjoyed doing some prep for their upcoming ARISS contact scheduled in October. The university had invited students from “our feeder primary and secondary schools.” The teachers planned to engage youth in how plants are grown in space, fundamentals of electronic circuits, and the relevance of radio communication as a constant in day-to-day life.  Their ARISS mentor Seamus McCague supported them, sharing radio communications experiences as a ham operator and showing them how ham radio will make the ARISS contact happen.

September 28:  The NASA EXPRESS ran a blurb in this week’s issue about ARISS opening a new window to accept ARISS Education Proposals to compete for an ARISS contact in second-half 2024. The issue went to 60,002 subscribers and will be shared through the Office of STEM Engagement’s social media. The latter reaches 404,220 @NASASTEM X Followers, 116,289 NASA STEM Facebook Followers, and 512,148 NASA STEM Pinterest Followers. ARISS-USA Education Director Tanya Anderson sent details about the window to 274 Space Foundation International Teacher Liaisons, 100 members of two Educator Space Camp Alumni Groups, and 1,200 members of the Astronomy Teachers Group.

ARISS Upcoming Events
Oct 6: 149 Secondary School, Baku, Azerbaijan–ARISS contact, ARISS-Europe Team
Oct 6: Technological University Dublin, Ireland–ARISS contact, ARISS-Europe Team

September 21:  ARISS is honored to learn that the weekly NASA SPACE UPDATE ran a segment highlighting the Augusta (GA) Prep School ARISS contact supported by Steve Bowen in late August. The blurb described high points of the ARISS contact and some of the school’s STEM activity, and featured two photos of students talking on the mic to Bowen.  ARISS learned that everyone at the Space Operations Mission Directorate and the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate received the report.    

August 31: ARISS-USA selected Tanya Anderson as the new ARISS Director of Education. She teaches junior high science at St. Joan of Arc School, a Pre-K-8 institution in Lisle, IL. For 18 years, Tanya has focused on teaching earth and space science, life science, and physical science. Some of her STEM activity included NASA HEAT 2022, helping create curriculum in heliophysics and system science; NASA Airborne Astronomy Ambassador; and Space Foundation International Teacher Liaison. She was chosen as 2015 Civil Air Patrol Aerospace Educator of the Year. Tanya said, “I am excited to be part of ARISS and cannot wait to see what the future holds for amateur radio as commercial space stations are built and lunar exploration evolves.”

September 20: ARISS was asked by NASA for a quick reply for the White House Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Austin Bonner, who needed a fact-check on a statement about ham radio and ARISS.  Bonner, the Keynote 2 speaker on September 26 at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Las Vegas, NV plans to use the statement, which ARISS confirmed was correct: “Over 100 different ISS crew members have used amateur radio and ARISS to talk to youth around the globe.  And 3 of the 4 Artemis Astronauts that will soon circle the moon are certified amateur radio operators.” MWC’s publicity lists her keynote speech as being titled “Everything Policy Program.”  Also, MWC claims that tens of thousands of professionals in the international mobile technology communications industry and connectivity sector attend their annual congress.   

September 21: The ARISS-US Education Committee begins accepting ARISS Education Proposals on October 1 from formal and informal educational institutions and organizations wanting to compete for an ARISS radio contact. Educators need to submit proposals between October 1 and November 10, 2023 for ARISS contacts scheduled in the second half of 2024. ARISS’s Proposal Webinar on October 5 will answer educators’ questions on submitting a proposal. ARISS states that education organizations’ proposals should describe a well-developed education plan that will build youths’ excitement for STEM and an ARISS radio contact, and capture the interest of the community.

September 1: ARISS educator Melissa Pore at Bishop O’Connell High School in Arlington, VA and two of her seniors traveled to St. Anthony of Padua School in Falls Church, VA to work with over 190 students.  The school’s K-8 youth engaged in hands-on activities such as building straw rockets and models of TDRS satellites and satellite dishes. Students liked NASA activity pads, mission patches, and Artemis stickers provided by SCaN. Astronaut Dan Tani gave a talk to inspire the youth.  Melissa’s senior students enjoyed doing the STEM service and learned some things, too, while helping younger students learn.

ARISS Upcoming Events  
Sept 25: Colegio Educacion delTalento, Yerba Buena, Argentina – ARISS contact, ARISS-Canada Team
Sept 28: Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia – ARISS contact, ARISS-Russia Team

September 12: Prior to the recent Bowman Middle School ARISS contact in Bakersville, NC, Principal Amber Young invited US Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, and she went! Afterward, Foxx sent Amber a letter of thanks and compliments to the STEM teacher and students on their contact and STEM lessons. Returning to the US Capitol Building, she reported details on the House floor. Her words were read into the Congressional Record—HOUSE H4237—as follows.
   “Madam Speaker, I recently had the pleasure of visiting Bowman Middle School in Mitchell County to view the school’s International Space Station, ISS, contact project. Thanks to the diligent work of Dan Hopson, a STEM teacher at the school who has a penchant for securing these kinds of opportunities, this project was able to come to fruition. Students were able to ask a variety of questions in real time via ham radio to Warren Hoburg, a NASA astronaut who successfully traveled to the ISS on March 3 of this year. 

   This impressive event was one that these students will surely remember as they continue their educational journeys. Hopefully, some will be inspired to engage in careers in STEM areas. Congratulations to Dan Hopson, Principal extraordinaire Amber Young, and dedicated staff at Bowman Middle School who made this event and this learning opportunity such a success.”

September 6: After being accepted for an ARISS contact a few months ago, Egemen Yildiz Secondary School teachers in İzmir, Turkey, with help from an area amateur radio club, moved students through a curriculum covering space and radio. The project, titled “Turkish Children in Space in the 100th Year of the Republic,” prepared them for the ARISS contact. Students talked with Jasmin Moghbeli, who answered 20 questions. The event was live streamed, and 15 days later had garnered over 800 views.  130 people attended, including reporters from several TV stations and the Hurriyet Daily News (HDN). The HDN story (https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkish-students-chat-with-astronaut-via-radio-186101) stated that an 8th grade girl told her teachers about writing a proposal in hopes of being selected for the ARISS contact. A group of students had enjoyed a space camp in June.

September 12: Undergrads from the IEEE ESPRIT Student Branch and ESPRIT University in Little Ariana, Tunisia engaged in an ARISS contact (some on-site and some tied in virtually) with Andreas Mogensen. He answered 14 of the ESPRIT students’ questions and had time afterwards to hear students’ applause and goodbyes. Two livestreams captured 854 views and several days later, totals climbed to 2.2k views.  The lead educator complimented ARISS, writing: “On behalf of IEEE ESPRIT Student Branch & ESPRIT University, I wholeheartedly thank you for efforts; we greatly appreciate and admire the ARISS team.”  The school supports a varied curriculum including civil engineering, electromechanics, and business.  

September 5:  ISS National Lab (INL) honored ARISS by including ARISS school contacts in a photo story on the INL website that summarized accomplishments of the Crew 6 astronauts.

September 1: Axiom-2 crew members John Shoffner and Peggy Whitson, who flew in May 2023, filmed onboard scenes that demonstrated many aspects of life on the ISS in microgravity. They made the footage into a series (titled “Habitat Space”) of short educational videos. One is on ARISS and amateur radio; the URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZy97_VbbDM (3 minutes and 20 seconds in length).  The Perseid Foundation supported and posted the free lessons.

September 14: ARISS sponsor ARRL (American Radio Relay League) held a Zoom town hall meeting for ARRL members in Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Part of the hour-long program included a talk on North Carolina’s Bowman Middle School ARISS contact and similar contacts in other states.  267 people tied into the ARRL Zoom meeting and each of the 4 states streamed the meeting on their own Facebook platforms, with one state also streaming a YouTube—for a total of over 700 viewers.  More ARRL members will view the recordings.  

ARISS Upcoming Events  
Sept 22: Escuela Preparatoria LaSalle, Torreon Coah, Mexico – ARISS contact, ARISS-Canada Team
Sept 28: Amur State University, Blagoveshchensk, Russia – ARISS contact, ARISS-Russia Team

August 31: The day after dodging a near hit from Hurricane Idalia, Augusta (GA) Preparatory Day School carried out an ARISS contact with Steve Bowen. 500 students and faculty packed the school gym to watch and to hear Bowen answer 18 student questions such as how holidays are celebrated there to what are your mission-driven goals on board. The school livestreamed the contact on Facebook: https://youtu.be/y_Yu0ddYF60?si=GgIqNK2luNIAR4im&t=1562.  In 7 days’ time, the YouTube garnered 220 views. Media covered the event—WJBF ABC TV (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Wha2Ej8jZw), WRDW CBS TV, and Augusta Good News. ARISS Education Ambassador Martha Muir helped mentor the school contact and her quote in an interview by WJBF was: “That’s something they’re never going to forget. I love the smiles.” The rest of the day saw all students doing hands-on activities during their STEAM Fair. Weeks earlier, students prepared for the contact by engaging in the NASA Growing Beyond Earth program, and middle- and upper-school students researched how to the design and launch a small research satellite.

September 5: Valley Stream South High School (VSS) students in Valley Stream, NY look forward to their ARISS contact in October. ARISS educator Kathy Lamont reported that with school opening up for fall classes, VSS teachers created poster boards and set up a display case to remind students of an exciting new school year that will bring them the ARISS contact and many space-related STEM lessons.  

July & August: The Euro Space Centre sponsors STEM camps in Libin, Belgium and each year, ARISS team members mentor girls and boys at Satellite Camp, Robot Camp, and Telecom-Ham Camp. While guiding youth in hands-on activities, ARISS volunteer Stefan Dombrowski never misses an opportunity to describe ARISS school contacts, and brings his radio for youth to listen to these. At Sat Camps, 13 kids made their own 3-D printed satellite and built in an Arduino unit, sensors, and an RF (radio frequency) module to take home. At Telecom-Ham Camps, 8 youth used software defined radios, built a ham radio antenna, and enjoyed hidden radio transmitter hunts. At Robotics Camp, 36 youth built an Arduino-based robot that “sees” where they program it to travel and avoid obstacles. The camp that the most girls (21%) were interested in was the Robotics Camp. All youth enjoyed listening to ARISS contacts.

ARISS Social Media for August

ARISS social media leader Jim Reed reported August 2023 highlights:

• Growth in Followers stayed steady at over 1% per month. At this rate, ARISS should pass 30K aggregate Followers in September.
• X continues to be tops (62%) in Followers and Impressions, but ARISS will keep diversifying with posts on Facebook, Instagram, and Mastodon.

ARISS Total August Social Media Metrics:

• ARISS X – Total Impressions / Views 142,128,  Interactions / Engagements 4,556 
• ARISS Facebook – Total Impressions 79,693,  Interactions / Engagements 2,235
• ARISS Instagram – Total Reach 5,659,  Interactions / Engagements 593
• ARISS Mastodon – Interactions / Engagements 182
• ARISS LinkedIn – 6 New Followers,  145 Reactions     
• ARISS YouTube – Total Subscribers 1.95k

August Social Media Top Posts

The top post on X and Mastodon featured young Isabella holding a portable ham radio and aiming a satellite antenna to listen to an ARISS contact–her school has a late-October ARISS contact. The top Instagram post highlighted the STEMforGIRLS ARISS contact with Steve Bowen and the top Facebook post listed ARISS radio frequencies.

• Top X post: Impressions 6,859, Interactions / Engagements 316
• Top Facebook post: Impressions 7,233,  Interactions / Engagements 227
• Top Instagram post: Impressions 259, Interactions / Engagements 25
• Top Mastodon post: Interactions / Engagements 26

ARISS Upcoming Events  
Sept 12: Private Higher School of Engineering & Technology, Little Ariana, Tunisia, ARISS-Europe Team

August 28: Students at Bowman Middle School in Bakersville, NC experienced a day they’ll not forget after speaking to Steve Bowen during an ARISS contact.  285 people (189 youth) in the auditorium watched the students ask 13 questions. VIPs present included US Congresswoman Virginia Foxx, ARRL North Carolina Section Manager Marv Hoffman, ARISS Technical Mentor Bob Koepke of South Carolina, a Mitchell County Board of Education leader, and two Mitchell County Commissioners. Hoffman presented the school with an award for supporting STEM. Media reps came from WJHL Tri-Cities TV (Johnson City-Bristol-Kingsport, TN) and two newspapers, the Queen City News and Mitchell News Journal. The Mitchell County Schools’ Facebook livestream had 116 viewers. The WJHL reporter said the ARISS contact sparked an interest in young minds, and quoted a 7^th grader: “It felt amazing, I loved every moment. After this, I would like to be an astronaut to experience space and what it looks like, the galaxies and stuff like that.”  The TV item (which on contact day, provided video) is at https://www.wjhl.com/news/local/north-carolina-students-speak-with-astronaut-in-space/.

August 23: An ARISS contact highlighted the virtual 2023 STEM Summer Summit for the STEMforGIRLS program in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. The non-profit Women in Resource Development Corporation (WRDC) sponsors the program. The summit featured presentations by women in STEM careers—geologists, an avionics instructor, and more. During the ARISS contact, Steve Bowen answered 17 girls’ questions. A post with video on X showed 893 views, and 24 hours later, 1,997 views. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation covered the event, which was livestreamed. WRDC offers girls “hands-on learning experiences, provides opportunities to interact with role models, and instills knowledge and confidence required to make informed career choices in STEM and skilled trades.”

August 25: The Australian Air League (AAL) in Salisbury, South Australia, Australia hosted an ARISS contact in the Australian Space Discovery Centre and cadets talked to Warren Hoburg. He answered 20 questions while 90 people watched the cadets. AAL livestreamed the contact on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/AustralianAirLeague/) and another AAL squadron (mostly girls) tuned in. In a week’s time the stream garnered 1.2k views. The ARISS radio telebridge station supporting this contact from Italy offered a livestream of their actions, attracting 92 viewers. Another 27 people listened to the audio on two reflectors, Echolink and IRLP (Internet Radio Linking Project). Meantime, at the Euro Space Centre STEM Camps in Belgium, ARISS informal instructor Stefan Dombrowski provided the livestream to 40 girls and boys. Before the contact, a commercial radio reporter had done a livestreamed interview with the AAL squadron commander and 18 cadets with the Adelaide Airport manager and 80 community members in the audience.     

August 30:  Next week’s report will cover the Augusta (GA) Prep School’s ARISS contact. A day prior to the contact, the school posted a very cute short video “promo” on Facebook of kids excited about their upcoming contact (https://www.facebook.com/augustaprep). The last shot of the video is below. 

ARISS Upcoming Events
Sept 12: Private Higher School of Engineering & Technology, Little Ariana, Tunisia, ARISS-Europe Team

July 31–August 4: ARISS educator Mic Ivancic and astrophysicist Elisa Gastaldi planned a week-long Space Day Camp at the latter’s farm resort in Castelnuovo Scrivia, Italy that features a planetarium. Elisa led 14 campers in daily planetarium shows on constellations and planets. Mic guided them in researching the ISS, how it stays in orbit, and what life is like onboard. Youth divided into four teams of three “crewmembers” and used teamwork to accomplish fun tasks. An example: built and launched yeast and sugar rockets and vinegar and baking soda rockets, recording notes on failures and successes, and comparing launches.  On “astro-egg day” each team received two boiled eggs and a few items to design and build a protective vehicle to “land” the egg safely after a launch from an upstairs room. Kids saw the ISS pass overhead while watching Mic manipulate her ham radio and antenna to listen to ARISS cross-band repeater radio contacts. Also, a few days after camp ended, Mic and the astrophysicist organized a walk for 80 people to watch Perseids meteors and a planetarium show and to see Mic’s presentation about the ISS and ARISS.

August 10: ARISS volunteer Stefan Dombroswki and area ham operators set up four outreach stations related to ARISS for people attending “Night of the Stars” hosted at the Euro Space Centre in Libin, Belgium. The Centre widely advertised the free mega-STEM event; 2,200 people came, each walking by the first ARISS exhibit station where Stefan and team had youth doing multiple hands-on activities that demonstrated radio waves. At the second ARISS station, youth (with a parent) built an FM radio receiver and electrical kits. The third station offered a QO-100 satellite radio station that kids experimented with. The fourth station featured a pulsar hunt, a hidden transmitter hunt with a space twist. At all stations, people heard about ARISS and radio.

ARISS Upcoming Events  
Aug 31: Augusta Preparatory Day School, Augusta GA – ARISS contact, ARISS-US Team

August 10: Two ARISS SIP interns, Sruthi Sankararaman and Bryce Lanese, gave their final presentations at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.  Sruthi titled hers, “SPARKI: Workshopping Amateur Radio Education Resources.” Her internship work dealt with enhancing and finalizing lessons for the ARISS Educate the Educator workshops that utilize the SPARKI kit (Space Pioneers Amateur Radio Kit Initiative). She also helped ARISS coordinate and lead a workshop held in conjunction with an educator conference at Kennedy Space Center.  Bryce Lanese titled his presentation “Prototyping Educational Activities for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station.” He had plotted patterns of ARISS’s L- and S-band antennas, built satellite simulator units, and used software to process telemetry signals transmitted from the simulator units. Frank Bauer wrote compliments to the interns: “I could feel positive energy from the audience through their questions and glowing comments.  Note that these came from our very important NASA leaders and sponsors. I have never experienced such excitement and enthusiasm from the audience on an intern presentation or one related to our ARISS program.“

May 5-6: The Luxembourg Space Agency in Neimënster organized a “Space Summer Festival” inviting youths of all ages, including university students, young professionals, and parents to learn about careers in space and science sectors. ARISS team member Stefan Dombrowski and six volunteers engaged hundreds of youth at a ham radio display they set up. The exhibit booth offered electronics kits the youth could assemble, a QO-100 satellite radio station (a geostationary satellite carrying a ham radio payload) kids could experiment with, and a hearing about ARISS and ham radio. Half of the youth who stopped by were university students and half were high schoolers. 150 of them soldered, assembled, and took home simple receiver kits to listen to FM broadcast stations. A number of astronauts and cosmonauts came to the festival, which was free to the general public on day two, bringing hundreds more youth and parents to the booth.

Also, Stefan and the Belgian ARISS team reported that they assisted the CanSat Belgian Teams competing at the ESA Galileo Integrated Logistics Support Centre in April in Libin-Transinne. 24 teams—150 boys and girls ages 16-18—launched CanSats. During mentoring sessions, the youth learned about ARISS and ESA STEM camps where ARISS volunteers teach. A week later, the ARISS group helped the CanSat Luxembourg Teams at the same ESA center. 12 teams totaling 75 girls and boys launched CanSats and learned about ARISS. One girl decided to attend Stefan’s ESA Campin July. 

August 11-13: At the 2023 ARRL Pacific Northwest DX Convention for amateur radio operators in the US and Canada, ARRL-ARISS Committee Chair Mark Tharp set up a display table sporting ARISS’ roll-up banner, handouts, and business cards. 120 attendees came from 12 northwestern states and British Columbia, and they took home many ARISS business cards. This annual convention features programs of interest to ham radio operators who enjoy making radio contacts with hams in countries located in remote parts of the globe.  

ARISS Upcoming Events  

Aug 24: STEM for GIRLS, St. John’s, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada – ARISS contact, ARISS-Canada Team
Aug 25: Australian Air League, Salisbury, S. Australia, Australia – ARISS contact, ARISS-Japan Team
Aug 28: Bowman Middle School, Bakersville NC – ARISS contact, ARISS-US Team
Aug 31: Augusta Preparatory Day School, Augusta GA – ARISS contact, ARISS-US Team