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Thank You for Joining Us Today!. Introduction to the AIAA Educator Academy Space Weather Balloon Module will begin at 2 PM EST Don’t Forget! You will need to call in for the audio portion of this webinar: Phone: 1.866.740.1260 Passcode: 2647527.
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Thank You for Joining Us Today! Introduction to the AIAA Educator Academy Space Weather Balloon Module will begin at 2 PM EST Don’t Forget! You will need to call in for the audio portion of this webinar: Phone: 1.866.740.1260 Passcode: 2647527
Introduction to the AIAA Educator Academy Space Weather Balloon Module Ben Longmier Longmier@umich.edu
Webinar Overview • The Engineering Challenge of Bouyant Flight • Costs and Financing • Curriculum Module • AIAA Workshops Available • Capstone Event
Goals and Objectives Today’s Webinar will: • Introduce you to the concept and utility of a helium balloon flight engineering challenge • Design, Build, and Fly for HS students • Convince you that materials are available to excite students about STEM via this challenge • Convince you there is available training for you to execute the concept in the classroom / after school • Inform you about resources for putting together a Capstone Competition
Genesis • Module stems from Project Aether • Run by Ben Longmier from Houston (3 yrs), and now Ann Arbor Michigan (1yr) • http://ProjectAether.org • Middle School, High School, undergrad levels of hands-on education • Key Aspect • Designed to be highly interactive in terms of gaining hands-on build experience and field experience
Challenge • Construct equipment to fly to the edge of space and back while: • Tracking with GPS and radio • Taking photos • Performing an experiment • Flight takes 2-3 hrs, travels ~100miles • Recovery can be in remote areas • Future engineering design challenges • For now, just surviving and getting back is the challenge!
Costs – Reusable Items • Reusable Items – 1 per teacher • Power Pole • Kelvin 851508 - $199.95 – www.kelvin.com • 16V DC Transformer • Kelvin 841051 - $125 – www.kelvin.com • Potential funding with AIAA Educator Grant Program • Currently $250 per teacher, 2 teachers per school per year • https://www.aiaa.org/Secondary.aspx?id=4184 • Should also contact your local AIAA section for support
Cost – Consumable Items • Cost per plane for a proven foam wing design is < $10 • With team of 4 student < $2.50 a student
Curriculum Module • Contains a 12 week lesson unit plan for the classroom to prepare for • Planning, Launch/Recovery • Experiment ideas • List of supplies
Curriculum Module – National Standards • Correlation to National Standards • Science Standards 9-12 • National Education Technology Standards for Students (NETS·S) • National Math Standards K-12 • National Languages Arts Standard K-12
Curriculum Module – Glossary of Balloon Terms • Balloon Terms • Atmospheric pressure, aurora borealis, bar, millibar, buoyancy, buoyant force, cosmic ray, geomagnetic storm, magnetosphere, metrology, payload, space, near-space, outer space, sprites, telemetry
Curriculum Module – Background Information for Educators • Historical Perspective on Balloon Flight • Uses NASA Engineering Design Process for Secondary Students
Cracking The Code • Not all teachers will feel comfortable with all aspects of a Balloon launch and recovery • Science and Math Teachers will understand the STEM Content but not how to build balloon payloads • Tech Teachers may know how to build balloon payloads but not feel comfortable with STEM Content • Some after school programs are run by dedicated but overwhelmed Liberal Arts teachers • A workshop demonstrating the payload build and launch process in practice is highly helpful!
Educator Academy Electric Cargo Plane Workshop • AIAA IDC Funded Through September 2014 • Instructors • Ben Longmier – University Professor • University of Michigan, Aerospace Engineering Dept. • Gar Bering– University Professor • University of Houston, Physics Dept • AIAA STEM K-12 Chair • Liz Henriquez– High School Teacher • lead curriculum developer and faculty member for the New Jersey Center For Teaching and Learning
Educator Academy Space Weather Balloon Workshop • Setup Day Before • Workshop Schedule • 8 – 8:10 – Welcome and Introductions • 8:10 – 9:30 – Formal Instruction • 9:30 – 12:00 – Building Payload Commences • 12:00 – 12:40 – Lunch • 12:40 – 1:30 – Building and Refining • 1:30 – 4:30 – Refining and Launch of small balloons
Educator Academy Space Weather Balloon Workshop • Supplies • AIAA Provides Specialty Items • Weather balloons, Lunch box payloads, • basic tracking hardware for example launch • Host provides locally available supplies • Consumables paid by AIAA • Helium, foam construction materials, … • Non-Consumables provided by Host • Tools, Garbage Cans, Shop Vac, PC projector, …
Capstone Event • Training materials are available for holding capstone event by AIAA Section or Local Sponsor • Webcast this Fall • Hope is to have a series of Regional Challenges that feed into an Institute level Challenge
Thank You for Attending Today! Additional Questions and Information: • Ben Longmier, STEM K-12 Committee, Longmier@umich.edu • Gar Bering, STEM K-12 Chair, ebering@central.uh.edu • Lisa Bacon, AIAA Program Manager, LisaB@AIAA.org • Helpful websites: • Curriculum module: https://www.aiaa.org/AIAAEducatorAcademy/ • Example program and supplies: http://www.projectaether.org • Flight predictions: http://predict.habhub.org/