An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Private UKEB School, Izmir, Turkey on 05 Nov. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 12:34 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.youtube.com/channel/UCHI1hqkeATG-6-rLty4k19A

Story:

UKEB is a private K-8 school with around 310 students and 45 teachers. It was founded in 2015 to answer many contemporary needs of conscious students and parents and it follows the principles of Atatürk, the founder of Turkish Republic. As UKEB Schools, our target is to raise children that are aware of international issues, as well as being donated with cultural aspects of their own culture and other cultures. In terms of education, our students undergo a program which covers an intense use of science and technology as well as international foreign language system, the Edexcel. Apart from this, as social individuals, they take part in social responsibility projects and at school they improve their skills of interaction with others through good manners. As a school that gives importance to health, we start the day with physical education lesson to intake more oxygen that will allow our students start the day in an energetic way.

We follow the program of Ministry of Education in an extended way in terms of science and social studies. To talk about science program in our school, from third grade to 8 grade, we cover the topics about space. To improve the daily plans that we are using in our lessons, we have attended Space Camp Turkey and we are working collaboratively with them. We are also working with Ege University Astronomy department. We keep abreast with the current affairs and improvements about space that's why we are keenly interested in ARISS.

UKEB is an innovative school with a philosophy. STEM goals were put into action by advisors from the education departments in local universities since the very first days of school so every single policy was written according to scientific datas. One of the most important programs of our school is YETMER (through 5-8 grades). YETMER is an abbreviation for Improving Skills Program. It is built on the idea of STEM. Integrated activities can present and reinforce these ideals through both engineering and science perspectives. Students and families can see the products of YETMER in the Innovation Fair that is held in UKEB, where different projects are exhibited.

UKEB is also an Eco- school which is an international environmental program. Wastes and energy are some of the subjects that are studied. We provide school trips to factories about energy, to a treatment plant, to Space Camp Turkey and observatory belonging to Aegean University Astronomy Department.

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

1. How do you define the World from space?

2. What are the differences between life in space and the life on

Earth?

3. What tests did you take when you joined NASA to become an astronaut?

4. What would you do if you ran out of your essential materials?

5. Atatürk is the founder of Turkish Republic. He said: "The future is

in the sky." You are in the sky now. Do you agree with Atatürk?

6. What experiments are you trying on ISS as your mission?

7. Which planet is your favourite one except Earth? Why?

8. As there is no direction like West, South, East, North, how can you

specify the coordinates?

9. Is it hard to sleep in a position against gravity in space?

10. Why is the space black?

11. Is there any danger in travelling to space?

12. What was the strangest question that was asked you in your previous

contacts? And what was your answer?

13. If you had come across with a strange creature, what would you do?

14. What belonging is the most valuable to you in ISS?

15. How is the internet connection in space?

16. How many years were you trained to become an astronaut? Was this

your dream?

17. What's the hardest stage that you passed before being an astronaut?

18. How can you get used to no gravity in space?

19. After spending a long time in space, how long does it take to get

used to everyday life?

20. If there was a light that could go faster than a black hole's

gravity, would it make any difference in space?

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Next planned event(s):

1. Istituto Comprensivo "G.B. Perasso", Milano, Italy and Istituto

Comprensivo Montignoso - Scuola secondaria I grado

"G.B.Giorgini", Montignoso, Italy, telebridge via VK5ZAI

The ISS callsign is presently scheduled to be NA1SS

The scheduled astronaut is Luca Parmitano KF5KDP

Contact is go for: Wed 2019-11-06 09:27 UTC

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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