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Launching a weather balloon!
10/14/2022 | 1m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
Students at Lincoln Park Middle School launched their high-altitude weather balloon.
Students at Lincoln Park Middle School launched their high-altitude weather balloon with a series of computers to track altitude, pressure, and temperature. Students also created their own experiments onboard with cameras, GPS, and other tracking devices!
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The Slice
Launching a weather balloon!
10/14/2022 | 1m 18sVideo has Closed Captions
Students at Lincoln Park Middle School launched their high-altitude weather balloon with a series of computers to track altitude, pressure, and temperature. Students also created their own experiments onboard with cameras, GPS, and other tracking devices!
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipToday we did the first launch of the balloon launching season and the goal was to come up with a fun experiment for the kids to watch.
On board the weather balloon there is the science experiment, which is a marshmallow.
A couple of different types of marshmallows to see how they react to the pressure as it lowers, as it goes up.
There's a spot GPS which will help us find it tonight or tomorrow, and then there's an eagle flight computer that every 3 seconds is taking in information.
How fast it's going, where it's heading to, and what the pressure is and what the temperatures.
It feels very successful, like it feels like you actually did something and now we'll get the satisfaction of having our lovely DJ over here come and bring it back.
And we get to see the photos and the videos of all that stuff.
The balloon is going to go over to Wisconsin somewhere.
It'll burst, it'll hopefully float to the ground and then we'll bring everything back.
And then Tyler will take the results from that, download them into the computer and share them with the kids, and then kind of take it where it leads them.
Oh, it was awesome.
It was super fun.
Yes.
I got to go out of class and launch a balloon into outer space.
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