High-Level Project Summary
Didactic balloon is a project that seeks students to learn more dynamically and in effective concepts of Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry and Computer Science with the manufacture, launch of a HAB (High Altitude Balloon) and the data that it can provide. Each student or teacher has the possibility to study and analyze the data they want. The materials and techniques we provide are the most economical and ensure a successful launch.
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Detailed Project Description
Our work offers the Educational Community and the World, the ability to make anyone can perform a HAB (High Altitude Balloon), which reflects a simplicity that produces a better understanding of its creation, access and elaboration.
Students will have the facility to develop STEM skills in a more dynamic and simple way, which will help them in different areas of the subjects related to it and the curricular activities of the school subjects.
Space Agency Data
The information provided by the NASA website that we take advantage of in our research are: Scientific Balloons of NASA - Ballon Types, Glossary and Launch Locations Resources of Internet, Resources of NASA, Media Resources in Scientific Balloons of NASA
Hackathon Journey
Our experience as a Team with SpaceApps is enriching since we were able to see and learn to work in Unity, and see how far our ability to work under pressure and in a certain time goes. We learned that there are people with a lot of knowledge who were able to share their wisdom with us, for which we are very grateful. Also that this competition, so to speak, is about a great family that we aim at the same direction with the same or similar objectives to contribute to improve the technologies for a better use. It inspired us to choose this challenge since within the team that we make up is Robotics, we also created at the time to promote STEM in our City, the ARATIRI DEL SUR Aerospace Club, and as an activity we were thinking of launching a probe balloon that would be the first in our City and Department to encourage other young people to join the STEM and Aerospace world, and create a great impact. The approach that we proposed is to work with our own identity, in a joyful way, learn, understand and then be able to share with our community this great opportunity that the Organization offers us. We had many setbacks, such as the place where we started the competition due to inclement weather, the Wi-Fi signal went out, and as a result we were not able to present ourselves as a team. Despite this, we moved to a private home of one of the competitors and on Saturday, the electricity had been cut because an electrical storm occurred, as a result of which we could not carry out the work for approximately 4 hours.
We learned that we must be calm and accept things that sometimes cannot be changed and this has brought us closer together as a team to continue in this wonderful competition. Also the lack of knowledge of some points that we could not access quickly for our project despite the fact that the team each competitor had a specific task to be able to advance and be able to work in an organized way, we applied the previous principle. We want to thank NASA SpaceApps, AGENCIA ESPACIAL DE PARAGUAY(AEP), for promoting these types of STEM activities in our Country, the Mentors for their time and knowledge. To our parents and coach for supporting us in this activity that we will share with our peers, so that tomorrow they can join the competition regardless of age and above all to OUR SUPERIOR POWER.
References
- Dierig, M., Lohf, T., Rissiek, M., Meihost, L., & Kelm, B. (2011). CONSTRUCTION OF THE STRATOSPHERIC-PROBE. StratoFlights. https://www.stratoflights.com/en/tutorial/weather-balloon-tutorial/construction-of-the-probe/
- Dierig, M., Lohf, T., Rissiek, M., Meihost, L., & Kelm, B. (2011). OPTIMAL EQUIPMENT FOR YOUR STRATOSPHERE MISSION. StratoFlights. https://www.stratoflights.com/en/tutorial/weather-balloon-tutorial/optimal-equipment/
- Dierig, M., Luhf, T., Rissiek, M., Meihost, L., & Kelm, B. (2011). LOCATING AND RECOVERY OF YOUR STRATOSPHERE PROBE. StratoFlights. https://www.stratoflights.com/en/tutorial/weather-balloon-tutorial/locating-recovery/
- Maydell, J. (2011). Balloon Performance Calculator Tutorial. High Altitude Science. https://www.highaltitudescience.com/pages/balloon-performance-calculator
- Oyj, V. (2015). Precauciones de seguridad relacionadas con el producto. © Vaisala 2015. https://www.vaisala.com/es/file/25181/download?token=CLX9-Hhg
- VegaSky. (2018). Métodos de rastreo. VegaSky. https://iesvegasbajas.educarex.es/vegasky/index.php/tutoriales/rastreo
Tags
#sky #universe #balloon #HAB #hardware #stem #steam #paraguay #aep #agenciaespacialdelparaguay #space #sensors #economic #ftcteams #firstechchallenge #firstglobal #robotic #universe
Global Judging
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