Sentences with phrase «weather balloon project»

«The beauty of the weather balloon project is that it's something captivating that provides many points of entry,» says Smith, «whether you're a student in an engineering class working on how to build a structure that's going to survive a fall from several thousand meters, or if you're in a science classroom trying to ask good scientific inquiry questions that could be tested, or if you're in language arts and you want to write a creative piece about what the balloon's journey might be.»

The weather balloon project became a collaborative, multiple - subject effort among sixth - grade teachers.

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Expanded Gorgon cost to hit $ 50bn, Barnett claims The cost of the massive Gorgon liquefied natural gas venture is thought to have ballooned to as much as $ US32 billion ($ 50 billion) after Premier Colin Barnett yesterday labelled it one of the key projects that could help WA weather the global financial crisis.

The aim is to launch weather balloons that project Wi - Fi access in remote locations around the world.

The National Eclipse Ballooning Project, led by Angela Des Jardins, a solar physicist at Montana State University in Bozeman, will launch over 100 weather balloons at various times along the path of totality and measure changes in such parameters as temperature and wind speed.

«I clicked it, and it was a story about a seventh - grade student who decided to launch a high - altitude weather balloon into the top of the lower reaches of our atmosphere as an after - school project.»

While initiatives are still at work to increase global access to internet connection — such as programs like Google's Project Loon that literally plans to use high - altitude weather balloons floating over various regions around the world to provide internet access to places that otherwise wouldn't have it for decades — there's no point in having internet access if you can't afford a device to connect.

13 Danielle Georgiou, cialis Pizzicato Porno (2013), site videos projected on weather balloons, violin, sound pedal board, speaker, performance and installation (Courtesy the artist and Texas Biennial).

snip ---- «Indeed, satellite and weather balloon measurements have found little or no warming over the past 25 years, and other climate models project only modest warming»

Project Aquila is an annual experiment the Astronomy Club carries out to launch a weather balloon holding cameras and meteorological equipment in an effort to teach -LSB-...]

Saturday, Dec. 2 was the designated launch date of Astronomy Club's weather balloon experiment: Project Aquila.