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WMSI’s work on educational High Altitude Balloons (HAB) prepares students with a lot of the basic skills involved in sending a satellite to space!
Robot camp blasted off in late June with a buzz of excitement and creative! Click here to read about what our Young Engineers created during this week of design fun!
Want to learn about designing your very own robotic etch-o-sketch? Click here to read Alex Goulet’s guide to this amazing engineering project!
Bringing the excitement of the White Mountains and STEM into the classroom through the Mobile STEM Lab Program! Check out more from STEM Instructor Mike Carmon on the WMSI blog.
In our latest blog, we highlight the talented high school leaders who help run our sessions. These students demonstrate amazing leadership/mentorship, problem solving skills, goofiness, and facilitation! Click to read more!
WMSI has added new schools to it's 2016-17 Mobile calendar! click to read more about STEM in Milan and Groveton!
WMSI HAB Blog by Nick Sullo
It was originally amazing pictures from near space that got me interested in high altitude ballooning (HAB). Breathtaking photos are being taken by amateurs, which look like they could have been taken during a NASA mission. There is so much more to high altitude ballooning than just the awesome pictures though; really interesting data can be collected and experiments can be done at the high altitudes that these weather balloons reach. The challenge of engineering something which can be sent to 100,000 feet and then recovered when it drops back down to Earth is also alluring. This blog will document the process WMSI took in building a HAB payload which can be recovered after reaching 100,000 feet.
WMSI Instructors prompt students to explore Novel Engineering in the classroom, a process that yields huge amounts of engagement, practical problem solving, and rich discussion. Click to read more!