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Sputnik Lite

Sputnik Lite. Teaching Science With Balloons Nick Pugh K5qxj@amsat.org. Agenda. Scientific Investigation Data Collection Temperature Change with Altitude Graphing Wind Drift Radio Critical Thinking If Your Brave Public Relations While Having Fun. SOAP BOX.

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Sputnik Lite

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  1. Sputnik Lite Teaching Science With Balloons Nick Pugh K5qxj@amsat.org

  2. Agenda Scientific Investigation Data Collection Temperature Change with Altitude Graphing Wind Drift Radio Critical Thinking If Your Brave Public Relations While Having Fun

  3. SOAP BOX • * Taiwan Produces More Engineers Than the US • * If Your Children are to Have Jobs in the US • * If You Want to Collect Your Social Security • Then You Need to Train Your Students To Invent Products

  4. Soap Box As Teachers You Have a Fantastic Vantage Point To Spot the Next Bill Gates (Microsoft) Coral Sagan (Astrometry) Madam Currie ( Discovered Radium) Jolson Bell (Discovered Pulsars) Light Their Fires Send the to UL We Will Finish the Job

  5. Project Called Cricket Sat • The Guy Who Dreamed This Up • Professor Bob Twiggs of Stanford • Google Cricket Sat You Will Get 100’s of Hits • Bob Presented a Webinar Yesterday • No Lesson Plans Yet ???? • Opportunity to Publish

  6. Demonstration Release a Party BalloonMight Reach 30,000 Feet Carries a Radio Transmitter Beeps 37 times/10 sec at 30 deg C Beeps 10 times/10 sec at -7 deg CKnowing Temperature Impute Altitude Just Like Sputnik

  7. So • Expose Them to Fun Projects • Teach Science With Wands On • Balloons are Cool to Kids

  8. Sputnik Lite References WWW.ULcape.org http://weather.uwyo.edu/upperair/sounding.html http://audacity.sourceforge.net/ K5qxj@amsat.org Bob.Twiggs@Stanford.Edu

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