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 … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 9/4/2023
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Tanya C. Anderson joins ARISS-USA Team as Director of Education
August 31, 2023 - Tanya C. Anderson has been selected as Director of Education for Amateur Radio on the International Space Station, Inc. (ARISS-USA). Tanya has been a classroom educator for 18 years, the last 16 years teaching middle school science at St. Joan of Arc in Lisle, Illinois. Her science curricula cover earth and … Continue reading Tanya C. Anderson joins ARISS-USA Team as Director of Education
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/28/2023
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 … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/28/2023
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/21/2023
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 … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/21/2023
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/14/2023
July 31-August 3: Four ARISS team members, Frank Bauer, Randy Berger, Diane Schuler, and Kelly Cammarano traveled to the International Space Station Research & Development Conference (ISSRDC) in Seattle, WA to set up an ARISS exhibit table. They displayed items from the ARISS SPARKI educator radio experimentation kit such as ARISS’s robot, the electrical components … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/14/2023
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/7/2023
August 3: The Karasuyama Residents Center supports educational and cultural events in Setagaya, Japan, and hosted an ARISS radio contact for area youth with Sultan Al Neyadi. He answered 18 questions. The audience consisted of 100 kids (kindergarten, elementary, and junior high school), families, 100 teachers, the UAE Ambassador to Japan who brought 7 of … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 8/7/2023
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 7/31/2023
July 21: Girl and boy scouts at Camp William B. Snyder in Haymarket, VA enjoyed an ARISS contact with Sultan Al Neyadi who answered 13 questions. Minutes beforehand, Scout National Capital Area Council (NCAC) STEM Director Trish Dalal introduced a girl scout and boy scout who presented facts to listeners about the ISS and Al … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 7/31/2023
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 7/24/2023
July 18: A week-long Youth On The Air (YOTA) summer camp at Carleton University in Ottawa, ON, Canada hosted an ARISS radio contact. The youths talked with Steve Bowen who answered 18 questions; 60 people on site watched the youth. Young ARISS volunteer Ruth Willet orchestrated the youths’ actions; she’d done this for last year’s … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 7/24/2023
Special SSTV Experiment Scheduled for ARRL Teacher’s Institute
July 18, 2023— Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) in collaboration with the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), plan to carry out a special Slow Scan TV (SSTV) experiment from the ISS on Wednesday, July 26, 2023. During the event, the Columbus Module Repeater, transmitting at 437.800 MHz, will carry a message to … Continue reading Special SSTV Experiment Scheduled for ARRL Teacher’s Institute
ARISS Weekly Status Report – 7/17/2023
June 25-28: ARISS Educators Kathy Lamont and Joanne Cozens Michael staffed an exhibit booth all about ARISS at the 2023 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Conference in Philadelphia, PA. ARISS and the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) had collaborated on this conference and ARRL sent two staffers for the booth who talked up ARRL’s … Continue reading ARISS Weekly Status Report – 7/17/2023