SP. ACE: TAKING SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS' HEARTS AND MINDS 'UP, UP AND AWAY'

摘要

Secondary school students were given the opportunity to build and fly 'pongsats' (small experiments weighing under 100 grams each, and packed inside a ping pong ball) on high-altitude balloons bound for 100000 feet, or 30km: the edge of space. The need to acquire the knowledge and know-how to build successful experiments gave birth to the SP. ACE project. Over their last 3 years of secondary education, students are now learning about flight vehicles, the physical conditions in space, microcontrollers, sensors, programming, data logging, flight path analysis, and much more.