ISS Fan Club

1. Upcoming School Contacts
An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been scheduled with Osnovna skola Pazin in Pazin, Croatia on Monday, April 7 at 14:52 UTC. Eight hundred students are enrolled at the school which has offered technical classes in robotics, electronics and computer science for the past ten years. Students from Pazin’s two high schools are also expected to attend this event. The schools hope to pique the students’ interest in space and electronics through this educational activity. The audio for this event will be fed into the EchoLink AMSAT (101 377)
and JK1ZRW (277 208) servers.

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been scheduled with Han Gwang Boys & Girls High School in Pyeong Taek City, Republic of Korea on Sunday, April 13 at 10:57 UTC. The school was founded in 1955 and now consists of 4 schools under the same name, Han-Gwang (boys' junior & senior high schools and girls' junior & senior high schools). The four schools have 250 teachers and 5,000 students. It has an amateur radio club station, DS0IC which is the largest school club station in Korea with approximately 150 operators (100 students and 50 teachers). South Korean space visitor Yi So-yeon plans to speak with the high school youth during this event.

Central Middle School in Parsippany, New Jersey, has been slated for an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact on Monday, April 14 at 17:05 UTC. An essay and presentation contest will be held to determine which students will speak with the astronaut. The New Providence Amateur Radio Club will assist with the contact. The event will be available through a live transmission to all local schools using amateur band fast scan television. The school will notify CBS, NBC, ABC, New Jersey 12, the local and state newspapers, New York Times, USA Today, local and state elected officials, Board of Education members, district personnel, and the New Jersey Education Association of this event.

An Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact has been scheduled with the National Science Museum of Korea on Thursday, April 17 at 09:13 UTC. The Museum is an umbrella organization of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology and as such collects, preserves, researches and exhibits cultural assets in the fields of science, technology, natural science, history of science and technology. It also provides informal education to students. Spaceflight participant Yi So-yeon will participate in this educational activity.

2. Shanghai Students Experience ARISS Contact
On Tuesday, April 1, students attending the Shanghai Youth Centre of Science and Technology Education in Xuhui, Shanghai, China participated in an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact. Astronaut Garrett Reisman, KE5HAE, answered 8 questions posed to him by eight children as an audience of approximately 300 people looked on. Four television station and 8 newspapers covered the event.

3. Debrief Scheduled for Eyharts
The Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) team has been scheduled for an Expedition 16 crew debrief with Leopold Eyharts, KE5FNO/FX0STD. It will take place on Monday, April 7.

4. DLN ARISS Module Status
A draft version of the Digital Learning Network (DLN) Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) module will be ready for review by the end of May 2008. The module will provide grades K-12 with a foundation of what amateur radio is and how it is used, information on NASA and ARISS and will incorporate demonstrations from ARISS lesson plans. It will also highlight special projects such as SuitSat-2. The DLN module will provide education resource links to be used pre- and post-ARISS contact and will give information on how to apply for a contact.

5. Christa McAuliffe Planetarium Radio Station
Six staff members at the Christa McAuliffe Planetarium in Concord, New Hampshire passed their amateur radio exams. Two made the General class; the rest Technician. An amateur radio station will be set up at the planetarium on May 3 which will be capable of operating from HF to UHF and will have an antenna system for working satellites. The planetarium is home to the NASA Educator Resource Center (ERC) for New Hampshire.

Source ARISS Weekly Status