November 2, 2021 ARISS‐USA is known for promoting Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) by arranging live question/answer sessions via amateur radio between K‐12 students and astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS). In the last two decades, over 1400 contacts have connected more than one million youth using amateur radio, with millions more … Continue reading ARDC Grant Award for the ARISS‐USA STEREO Education Project
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 11/1/2021
October 20: The ARISS educator at Tecumseh (OK) High School who led students in STEM projects that culminated in a December 4, 2020 ARISS contact has a new set of students for 2021. His Electronics and Amateur Radio Class completed an electrical project that depicts the ISS’s track as it traveled over Tecumseh the day … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 11/1/2021
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 10/25/2021
August: Sussex County Charter School for Technology (Sparta, NJ) sponsored “Making Connections,” its first week-long amateur radio camp. This was a STEM education program as part of preparations for the school’s February 2022 ARISS contact. The STEM teacher, a Society of Women Engineers Advisor, said, “…best of all [at the camp], students did hands-on electronic … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 10/25/2021
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 10/18/2021
October 12: Students at the Mary Hare School for the deaf in Newbury, UK took part in an ARISS radio contact with Mark Vande Hei; he answered all 10 of the students’ questions. This was the first time an ARISS contact has been carried out with hearing impaired students. The school used special equipment and software … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 10/18/2021
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 10/11/2021
October 2: An ARISS radio contact took place between Thomas Pesquet and two French schools’ students—Lycée Pierre Paul Riquet in St Orens De Gameville and CSUT University Space Center of Toulouse. The schools’ students took turns and got 13 questions answered. They were masked when not speaking and staff limited crowd size on site to … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 10/11/2021
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 10/4/2021
September 24: Youth at a summer camp offered by the SPDW Voortrekker Movement in Oranjeville, South Africa participated in an ARISS contact with Akihiko Hoshide. He answered 10 of the campers’ questions. Following the contact, the ground station ham radio operator answered 9 more questions from the youth. The audience totaled 500. The livestream garnered … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 10/4/2021
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/27/2021
September 18: The Space Hardware Club at the University of Huntsville in Huntsville, AL is preparing for their ARISS contact next spring. The group’s plan was to carry out ARISS STEM activities in collaboration with nearby Buckhorn Middle School youth, with undergrads teaching middle schoolers. Recent events saw youngsters launch basic paper rockets using water … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/27/2021
Message to US Educators: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Contact Opportunity
Call for ProposalsNew Proposal Window is October 1st, 2021 to November 24th, 2021 Sept. 11, 2021 --- The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS … Continue reading Message to US Educators: Amateur Radio on the International Space Station Contact Opportunity
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/20/2021
September 14: Mary Hare School, a residential co-ed school for deaf students in Newbury, Berkshire, England, will host an ARISS radio contact in October. This ARISS contact is believed to be the first undertaken for the hearing impaired. The 230 pupils range in age from 7 to 13 years old. Questions and answers will be … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/20/2021
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/13/2021
August: ARISS educator Drew Deskur, head of the Kopernik Observatory and Science Center in Vestal, NY, planned several social-distanced summer STEM youth camps for various ages that had lessons tied to ARISS. Youth aged 8 and 9 got to try coding, build and program robots, learn about ARISS, and engineer differing solutions to problems. Youth … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/13/2021