An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Lanier Middle School and Lanier Cluster Schools, Sugar Hill, GA on 09 Sept. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 11:16 UTC. The duration of the contact is approximately 9 minutes and 30 seconds. The contact will be direct between TBD and W4GR. The contact should be audible over portions of the eastern U.S. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The contact is expected to be conducted in English.

Welcome to the Lanier Cluster, home of the Longhorns! We are a group of schools with a common goal: Learn, Lead, Succeed. We are comprised of one special needs preschool (The Buice School), three elementary schools (Sugar Hill Elementary, Sycamore Elementary, White Oak Elementary), one middle school (Lanier Middle), and one high school (Lanier High). Our schools are located in the greater Atlanta metro area in the largest school district in Georgia. Our schools and cluster are named after nearby Lake Lanier, which part of the Chattahoochee River system.

Our schools strive to create authentic learning environments for our students. Towards that end, our elementary schools, Lanier Middle, and Lanier High have project based learning programs for students. At Lanier High, students choose to be a part of a school within a school (academy model) as we guide students towards career and college readiness. Lanier High was also recently certified as a Georgia STEM high school, the only all-inclusive, traditional high school in Georgia that has received this STEM certification.

Our students are excited about science and space exploration. They have participated in regional and state science fairs, designed an experiment flown in microgravity, and chatted with a NASA Earth scientist live on NASA TV. They have presented at conferences, participated in robotics and app challenge events, and even won an Emmy for work on a 3D computer animation for a PBS documentary. The students of Lanier Cluster are excited to be a part of this ARISS contact!

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

1. What was your motivation to becoming an astronaut?

2. If you were repairing the space station outside and the tether snapped,

what would you do?

3. Your whole life led up to this moment. You've gotten great grades

through school and endured all the training that allowed you to go into

space. Do you think it is all worth doing? Does it all payoff in this

moment?

4. Do you do cool experiments?

5. What do you like best about space?

6. Can you dance in space?

7. In our school we have an Inquiry Program, which is a collaborative

program. As you work with other countries in space what challenges do

you have as you collaborate with them.

8. How much do you weight when you wear your spacesuit on Earth?

9. Does it get really hot when you re-enter Earth's atmosphere?

10. Thinking of how long it took humans to go to the moon and how humans

have not stepped foot on some of the other planets, how long do you

think it will take to reach the nearest star system?

11. Will the spaceship crash into meteors?

12. What exactly is your job at the space station?

13. What's the most annoying thing about zero gravity?

14. Have you come across any challenges yet?

15. How do you sleep in space without floating around?

16. How long is space training?

17. Once you have landed back on Earth, how do you make adjustments to

being back on Earth and no longer in space (gravity, sleeping, eating,

etc.)

18. How many astronauts are there in space?

19. Is (are) there food or restrooms in space?

20. How do you eat food without it floating away?

PLEASE CHECK THE FOLLOWING FOR MORE INFORMATION ON ARISS UPDATES:

Sign up for the SAREX maillist at

http://www.amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/sarex

Visit ARISS on Facebook. We can be found at Amateur Radio on the

International Space Station (ARISS).

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Next planned event(s):

TBD

ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the volunteer support and leadership from AMSAT and IARU societies around the world with the ISS space agencies partners: NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA.

ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.ariss.org/

Thank you & 73,

David - AA4KN

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