Learning at the Edge of Space
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Help support over 70 teams, made up of more than 1,000 middle school, high school, and university students, across the nation who are designing, building, testing, and flying high altitude balloons that will live stream the total solar eclipse from near the edge of space and perform important atmospheric research.
The National Space Grant Foundation needs your help to raise $20,000 by August 21st to support the Eclipse Ballooning Project. The funds will be used to support student teams from Oregon to South Carolina conduct practice launches, replace payloads lost during practice, replace parts broken though testing, and to travel to the launch sites on eclipse day. All donations are being made to the National Space Grant Foundation, a non-profit, 501(c)(3).
These students need your help to participate in this exciting, engaging, real-world, hands-on, life-changing experience and to give the world an opportunity to come together as a community to participate in this spectacular event!
Student teams from Oregon to South Carolina will launch more than 70 high-altitude balloons on August 21, 2017 along the path of the first total solar eclipse to occur across the continental U.S. in over 38 years. Project activities by students, mentors, faculty, and staff have far exceeded our resources to fund everyone. So, we need your help.
All donations are tax deductible as they are being made to the National Space Grant Foundation, a 501(c)3, non-profit organization.
The eclipse is a unique opportunity to learn about our atmosphere's response to a rare event. Currently the only method to obtain a direct measurement of our atmosphere at many altitudes is by using balloon-borne instruments called radiosondes. These instruments measure atmospheric temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and pressure. This event gives students an unusual opportunity to participate in all aspects of an atmospheric research field campaign while interacting directly with experts in the field.
Providing real-world experiences for students is life changing, yet often funding constraints restrict a program's ability to execute. Further, with one-quarter of the US population thinking the sun revolves around Earth (2014 NSF survey), we do not want to turn away anyone who has an interest in science and the ability to participate in this valuable and likely once-in-a-lifetime educational experience.
We have done an amazing amount of work to bring this project to this point with limited resources, but…
We need your help!
- List of Teams
- The Eclipse Ballooning Project In the Media
Donate $100+ and get a USPS Thermal Eclipse Stamp that has flown to near space on one of the student balloons!
Knox County Eclipse Space Balloon Project
NASA Edge Solar Eclipse Video
The National Space Grant Foundation needs your help to raise $20,000 by August 21st to support the Eclipse Ballooning Project. The funds will be used to support student teams from Oregon to South Carolina conduct practice launches, replace payloads lost during practice, replace parts broken though testing, and to travel to the launch sites on eclipse day. All donations are being made to the National Space Grant Foundation, a non-profit, 501(c)(3).
These students need your help to participate in this exciting, engaging, real-world, hands-on, life-changing experience and to give the world an opportunity to come together as a community to participate in this spectacular event!
Student teams from Oregon to South Carolina will launch more than 70 high-altitude balloons on August 21, 2017 along the path of the first total solar eclipse to occur across the continental U.S. in over 38 years. Project activities by students, mentors, faculty, and staff have far exceeded our resources to fund everyone. So, we need your help.
All donations are tax deductible as they are being made to the National Space Grant Foundation, a 501(c)3, non-profit organization.
The eclipse is a unique opportunity to learn about our atmosphere's response to a rare event. Currently the only method to obtain a direct measurement of our atmosphere at many altitudes is by using balloon-borne instruments called radiosondes. These instruments measure atmospheric temperature, relative humidity, wind speed, wind direction, and pressure. This event gives students an unusual opportunity to participate in all aspects of an atmospheric research field campaign while interacting directly with experts in the field.
Providing real-world experiences for students is life changing, yet often funding constraints restrict a program's ability to execute. Further, with one-quarter of the US population thinking the sun revolves around Earth (2014 NSF survey), we do not want to turn away anyone who has an interest in science and the ability to participate in this valuable and likely once-in-a-lifetime educational experience.
We have done an amazing amount of work to bring this project to this point with limited resources, but…
We need your help!
- List of Teams
- The Eclipse Ballooning Project In the Media
Donate $100+ and get a USPS Thermal Eclipse Stamp that has flown to near space on one of the student balloons!
Knox County Eclipse Space Balloon Project
NASA Edge Solar Eclipse Video
Organizer
Mark Fischer
Organizer
Bozeman, MT
