High-Level Project Summary
As Nason, we've developed an education set that teens within the age range of 10-18 can send their very own HAB to tens of kilometers up and make amazing experiments. When we started our project, we prioritized solving the problem of economic inequality. First of all, we wanted anyone to develop and make their own scientific experiments in the edge of space without worrying about their budget . Secondly, students could easily track the HAB. So as a result we came up with the solution of an education set that eases the difficulties that we encounter while trying to send our own balloon to the sky with using the opportunities of governmental organizations.
Link to Project "Demo"
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Detailed Project Description
As Team Nason, we have developed an education program and set to inspire new generations with the dream of space and encourage them to have a career in STEM. We highly acknowledge the importance of equality in STEM activities. Our main aim is to decrease the opportunity inequality and divergence between different social-economic groups of our society . Team Nason wants youth to notice the future is in their hands, doesn't matter where they live or who they are.
The topic of our plan to reach out the globe is may be the hardest question that we ever had to answer while we were working on our idea. We should've been sure that every individual must have the opportunity to reach us out. Thanks to the massive options of communication nowadays, a lot of things are a lot easier but also it may be confusing to figure out what to do either. So we came up with the idea, creating our own website. Useful, straightforward. Advertisation is also an important topic. We are largely planning to fund our program by applying to varied foundations(public,private or governmental) and hoping to use their support to ensure that everyone learns about our program.
About the global supply chain,
via our website our products will be available for sale. Additionally, the manuel we've prepared to avoid any misconseptions will be available on our website. The set is going to be provided to in-need zones(if there is enough demand)by various foundations(sadly we didn't have time to get in contact with any due to our late decision of participation). So as next steps we are definitely considering of getting in touch with possible investors and investigate the possible ways of starting a campaign. We are planning to make our set available to everyone who is interested in aviation and space, via the help of institutions they are currently studying in. Unfortunately, there are going to be individuals who are going to try to exploit the given opportunities but with a strong level of organization and confirmation process we are hoping to prevent unwanted situtations. Students that owns the set will have to confirm their participation through our website whenever they want in order to get in contact with our mentors. We highly not recommend anyone to try fly their HAB's without any authoritative observing and strongly against it. So we are willing to be sure that every precaution is taken for a safe flight with the help of local government and organizations.
Most of the population don't have the option to purchase necessary equipment reasoned by economical or geographical issues. (Parts totally cost about 200 dolars). Because of the reason mentioned above, the parts that are nearly impossible for students to procure such as the balloon itself will be supplied by us. Also, a device called "radisonde" which is also a very important part of every HAB and relatively expensive as it is hard to provide will be suplied by our organization. Main design of the HAB is going to be static, because of the reason there are plenty of restrictions and guidelines that should be followed we didn't want to cause any problem. Rest of the equipments that can be used to make willed measurements may be added to the rest of the system as desired.
We are aware of possible questions that may occur during the usage of set. Such as selecting the location and time for launch etc. For this reason, both our manual and website will be including responses for similar cases. In case of extraordinary questions every participator going to have a chance to contact their mentors. As mentioned before there is going to be a handbook that we've prepared. Beneath, a part of our example manual can be seen:
Q&A:
How to select the launching spot/time?
One of the most important thing when launching a balloon is to select location and time. Restrictions below can be considered in order to choose spot and time:
• Don’t launch where the cloud cover is >50% or if horizontal visibility is less than five miles
• Make sure the first 1000 feet of ascent are not over a congested urban or residential area
• Check your projected landing site, make sure it will not create a hazard for people or property there (like landing on a road or residential neighborhood) and USE A PARACHUTE
• Don’t launch (without a prior waiver from the ATC — air traffic control) if your balloon will pass through Class B, Class C, Class D, or Class E airspace designated for an airport below 2000 feet
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Step 4: Radiosonde
GPS Radiosonde System consists of ground receiver equipment and radiosonde. The radiosonde can be launched to the air through different platforms for conducting detection missions and collecting the meteorological information and environmental information during its flight. The ground receiver equipment can receive the radio signals transmitted by the radiosonde, and then demodulate the humidity, temperature, pressure, wind direction, wind speed and other meteorological data through calculation. The system utilizes the high-precision positioning function of the GPS satellite to perform auto-tracing on the radiosonde. The detection data is accurate with high level of automation.
A parachute, attached to the end of the balloon, allows the radiosonde to fall slowly to the ground at speeds less than 22 mph after the balloon bursts. Each radiosonde contains a mailing bag and instructions on what to do if you find one. About 20% of the 75,000 radiosondes sent up each year in the US are found and returned. These instruments are fixed and reused, saving the government money.
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Briefly, we've decided that we should do more than just make children fly their balloons up to the sky. Our plan is to start a global campaign that would support new generations to discover their potentials by teamwork and unity. Participators will be working with their mentors and other teammates to slowly go through steps of building up a HAB and designing their own experiments. As a group, they will learn how to measure and evaluate their results, make deductions in order to design their experiment along with developing their problem solving skills.
Space Agency Data
By the knowledge that we collected from NASA database helped us to calculate air pressure at the atmosphere. Thus we designed our balloon's system in case of that knowledge. Also we can obtain our balloon's altitude by pressure,heat and moisture. Our balloon contains some technologies which was invented by NASA engineers at the past like devices that uses batteries to work.We can learn altitude values by comparing our temperature values with the altitude values we got from NASA and via this information we can know how high our baloon is flying. We can also know possible temperature degrees we will face in the flight and we can get some precautions. For example we learned temperature will not be a serious problem after 20km's because temperature rises until the baloon reaches 50km's.
Hackathon Journey
Space Apps challange was an experience worth living. We set a team only 1 day before the challenge and started doing it in saturday. We had very little time but in theory we could accomplished something. We trusted ourselves because we know we can make it.We learned how to work together, create something in a very short time.We chose this challange because we wanted to help the education system of our country. We aimed to make education funnier and cheaper.Our team worked really hard in these 2 days to resolve setbacks and challenges. When we encounter a problem first rule is not to panic and start brainstorming.Brainstorming is our main technic which we used in our project. Our efforts were totally not wasted and we are grateful to find such a chance to participate. Thanks to our physics teacher Dr.Onur Akbal.
References
https://www.wikipedia.org/
https://www.highaltitudescience.com/
https://www.researchgate.net/
http://asl.stanford.edu
https://www.spaceappschallenge.org/
https://sa-2019.s3.amazonaws.com/media/documents/Space_Apps_2021_Project_Submission_Guide_rev-9-27.pdf
https://www.faa.gov/
https://mgm.gov.tr/
https://teknolojiprojeleri.com/
https://www.hwoyee.com/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/
Tags
#STEM #equality #education #opportunity #curiosity
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