The Computer Science Club at Amherst-Pelham Regional High School (ARHS) is starting a project to build a weather station at the school and collect data to educate the local community on meteorology and climate change, provide accurate local weather data, and introduce K-12 students to the many uses of STEM in their lives.

This project is led by high school students Ella Wang, Libby Smith, Delany Cheng, and Anoushka Sen, advised by ARHS computer science teacher Ling Xue.

With the weather station, we plan to add a more hands-on learning experience for high school science curricula, connect it to the National Weather Service's citizens weather program, use the measurements to ensure the weather conditions are safe for local sports teams, host tours with the younger students around the station, and investigate weather trends with climate change and extreme weather. We are hoping to place an order for the station sometime in the winter and set it up in Spring 2025. Outreach activities at the middle and elementary schools will begin in Fall 2025.