NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — JoAnna Strecker, Vice President for Education with Cosmosphere, said teachers from across the state are in town this week for training with the Teachers In Space program.
"We have about 30 teachers from all around Kansas coming in and they are going to learn how to build basically, minature computers, install sensors and ways to create science experiments that could possibly take back to their classrooms, teach their students and then put these experiments on rockets and test how they do."
At the end of the camp, teachers will be able to:
Assemble an Arduino microcontroller and sensors.
Program an Arduino and collect data from the sensors.
Assemble a CubeSat frame with an Arduino microcontroller.
Integrate CubeSats onto a balloon launch platform.
Launch, communicate with, and recover a balloon mission.
Communicate with CubeSats on suborbital and orbital missions.
Collect, present, and disseminate data collected from CubeSat missions.
The teachers attending are part of the Cosmosphere's LaunchLearning program.
"The Cosmosphere offers expertise, lessons, field trips, outreach, that sort of thing," Strecker said. "It's all for the teachers for free."
This is the second workshop from Teachers In Space this summer, the first was in New Mexico in June. They also have one scheduled in Maine in August. The camp lasts through Friday.