3. upcoming school contacts
nanjing no.3 high school in nanjing, jiangsu, p.r. china has been scheduled for an amateur radio on the international space station (ariss) contact on sunday, august 26 at 10:50 utc. to prepare for the contact, elective courses will be offered on amateur radio and contests will be held to determine the best essays and cartoons concerning ariss. other schools in the area will be invited to the event. the school has an active amateur radio club which was established in 1992 and has been a five time winner of the national youth amateur radio contest. local hams and businesses will support the students with the contact. extensive media coverage is expected from newspapers, television and radio stations and the internet. the audio for this event will be fed into the echolink amsat (101 377), the jsdxc (337 784) and jk1zrw (277 208) servers. the audio from this event is also planned to be fed into the irlp discovery reflector 9010.
amagasaki child science hall, located in amagasaki, hyogo, japan has been scheduled for an amateur radio on the international space station (ariss) contact on tuesday, august 28 at 08:27 utc. the children will learn the history of amagasaki, its economic growth and the problems associated with its growth, such as pollution. they will cover environmental issues and weather patterns that occur globally, and will discuss the purpose of the iss. an engineer will be invited to speak to the children and will arrange for a tour at his company抯 research institute to increase the children抯 interest in space.
an amateur radio on the international space station (ariss) contact has been planned for ashland greenwood high school in ashland, nebraska on wednesday, august 29 at 16:03 utc. a nasa committee was formed at the school, comprised of teachers from grades k-12, in order to promote earth and space science. the school will present one space fact per day to the students over a five week period and at the end of this time a contest will be held to see who remembers the most facts. clay anderson, kd5pla, is an alumnus of the school and visited students there in march 2007. information about him has been posted to a website,
http://www.agps.org/ . this event is expected to receive newspaper and television coverage. this contact is a clay anderson crew pick.
