Gang:
I'm putting the finishing touches on a Power Point presentation on satellites for the four gr. 6 classes in my town's Middle School this week. I'm focusing it around Echo because I hope that in a few weeks when the weather warms, we can do a demo through ole AO-51. Is there anyone who would like to do a school-demo to school-demo contact? I think they'd really enjoy that.
It appears that satellites enter our curriculum in the science program of gr. 6; I expect it is the same in many other N. American jurisdictions. This provides an excellent opportunity to fulfill the educational mandate of our organization and a way cool means of seriously impressing some pre-teens :-) In addition, these classes are being asked to do poster presentations on a satellite of their choosing. I'm going to point them to amsat.org. Someone's really going to enjoy telling the amazing tale of AO-7, no?
The photos collected for AO-51 make this job much easier. Perhaps the teams preparing for the launch of Delfi-C3, Kiwisat and Sumbandila will keep this in mind and try to provide media documenting their journeys to space, too.
73, Bruce VE9QRP