An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Golden Oak Montessori, Castro Valley, CA

on 28 Oct. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 15:50 UTC. It is recommended that you start listening approximately 10 minutes before this time. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be a telebridge between NA1SS and K6DUE. The contact should be audible over the east coast of the U.S. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

Watch for live stream at:

https://www.goldenoakmontessori.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=884592&...

Story:

Golden Oak Montessori is a free public charter school in the Hayward Unified School District located in the heart of the San Francisco East Bay. Our school has an incredibly diverse population of nearly 275 students in grades 1-8 (ages 6-14). Approximately 20% of students qualify as socioeconomically disadvantaged with several students participating in Migrant Education programs. More than 18 languages are spoken by our Golden Oak Montessori families with a number of students qualifying as English language learners.

As a Montessori school, a key component of our curriculum includes hands-on materials and experiential learning opportunities designed to stimulate academic exploration with a goal of educating children to be active, aware citizens with the skills and knowledge to participate meaningfully in the diverse and challenging new century. A cornerstone of our science curriculum are students doing hands on experiments using Full Option Science System kits from the Lawrence Livermore Labs, and Engineering is Elemental kits from the Museum of Science in Boston. In addition, students have had recent experiences building Solar Suitcases through a grant from Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), researching marine ecosystems along the California coast, working on a farm to learn about agro-science, and hiking local trails to learn about watershed environments.

To date Golden Oak Montessori's experiential learning has focused on terrestrial systems that student can see and touch, which why our whole school community is very excited to have an opportunity to shift our focus further out into space with an ARISS radio contact experience. This will take our student's STEM opportunities in a new and exciting direction which we hope will stimulate both our student's and teacher's scientific imaginations even further!

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:

1. Who chooses who gets to be in the International Space Station?

2. What qualifications are needed to become an astronaut like going to

a special school or experience flying fast planes?

3. Since you have many people from different countries on the ISS, what

language do you speak to communicate with one another?

4. How many people are on the space station at one time and do you ever

feel crowded?

5. What is the daily routine for an astronaut on the ISS?

6. What does Earth look like from outer space?

7. Has the ISS ever broken down? And what do you do if that happens?

8. Can you grow plants in space and do they grow normally?

9. What does it feel like to be with no gravity?

10. Do you have free time with the other astronauts to play board games

or other fun things in space?

11. Can you communicate with your family when you are in space?

12. Which is scarier - take off or landing?

13. What do you do if you get sick in space?

14. What are the roles of the people working on the space station? How

does each person get their work plan?

15. How has your understanding of the universe changed since seeing it

from space?

16. What are the best foods you eat in space, and what are the worst?

17. What was the coolest thing that you've ever seen or done since

you've been on the ISS?

18. What do you miss the most from Earth?

19. How many sunrises and sunsets do you see each day in space?

20. Why is it cold in space even though the sun is out all the time?

21. How do you breathe in a space suit?

22. What is the best part about being an astronaut and what is the

worst part?

PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:

Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS).

To receive our Twitter updates, follow @ARISS_status

Next planned event(s):

Young Scientists Program at USC and Vermont Elementary School, Los Angeles, CA

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS

The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP

Contact is go for: Mon 2019-10-28 18:57 UTC

Watch for live stream at:

http://www.uscannenbergmedia.com/

Farmwell Station Middle School Space Dreamers, Ashburn, VA

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS

The scheduled astronaut is Drew Morgan KI5AAA

Contact is go for: Tue 2019-10-29 15:01 UTC

Starting at about 14:15 UTC, watch for live stream at:

https://live.myvrspot.com/player?udi=bG91ZG91bg==&c=ZmFybWlzcw==

About ARISS

Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) is a cooperative venture of international amateur radio societies and the space agencies that support the International Space Station (ISS). In the United States, sponsors are the Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation (AMSAT), the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the ISS National Lab and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The primary goal of ARISS is to promote exploration of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) topics by organizing scheduled contacts via amateur radio between crew members aboard the ISS and students in classrooms or public forms. Before and during these radio contacts, students, educators, parents, and communities learn about space, space technologies, and amateur radio. For more information, see www.ariss.org.

Thank you & 73,

David - AA4KN

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