Saturday
October 5, ARISS contact scheduled with school in
An
International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants
at Polska Akademia Dzieci (
The
contact will be a telebridge operated by W6SRJ,
located
The event will be webcast live on :
The
contact will also be broadcast on EchoLink AMSAT (node 101 377) and JK1ZRW
(node 277 208) Conference servers, as well as on IRLP Discovery Reflector 9010.
School presentation.
Language
Laboratories, School of Genius (SG), is one of the
first language schools In Poland (est. in 1968). Till today it is a unique
scientific and educational unit, where each student has an individually
designed programme of learning in a foreign language, including Astronomy, Neuropsychology and Robotics. Classes at SG are
individually prepared for each student. Individual programmes include updated
ICT tools carefully adapted to the Student’s interest.
The
Project Polish Academy of Kids is the first university run by kids on an
international scale, where Young Scientists can freely choose the field of
scientific interest. Lecturers are from 6 to 20 years old and examine magnetic
levitation, the missing links of vertebrates’ evolution or dogs, cats and
insects. They decide about the scope of research and adults only help them with
the technical aspects and show reliable sources of knowledge. We work under the
patronage of Ministry of Science and Education, Patent Office, Ministry of
Education, Jagiellonian University and many others. For
more details visit website: akademiadzieci.edu.pl.
Polish
Academy of Kids was nominated the Science Populariser
2011 and 2012 in the contest organised by Science and Scholarship in Poland
(Polish Press Agency and Ministry of Science and Higher Education) while the
co-founders of Polish Academy of Kids were awarded the Pol-Cul
prize for their contribution to children’s development in Poland and won the
award of distinction for the best voluntary initiative in Pomerania.
The
contact is expected to be conducted in English by astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP.
Participants
will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
1. Katarzyna (13): Can you describe preparations to space
flight?
2. Samanta (15): What do you have to do to become an
astronaut?
3. Nikola (11): Which trainings do you need to become an
astronaut?
4. Katarzyna (15): How old was the youngest astronaut and can
a child go to space?
5. Adam
(12): What do you eat and how do you eat in space?
6. Oskar (13): When will be the next expedition to Mars?
7. Karolina (10): How does personal hygiene look like in
space?
8.
Sebastian (10): What's the research you're doing in space and what are your accomplishments in
it?
9. Filip (5): What is dark matter made of?
10. Józef (8): Do black holes and white holes exist?
11. Szymon(5):
Can you see the Eiffel Tower from space? When are you coming back to Earth?
12. Katarzyna (4): Can a baloon full
of helium go up in space?
13. Zuzanna (5): Why is there no gravity in space?
14. Katarzyna (7): What do astronauts dream of in space and
what do they miss most?
15. Szymon (10): When will be the next expedition to the Moon?
ARISS is
an international educational outreach program partnering the participating
space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the
AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries.
ARISS
offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur
Radio by talking directly with crewmembers onboard the International Space
Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio
and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology
and learning.
73,
Gaston Bertels – ON4WF
ARISS-Europe chairman