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Saturday September 21, ARISS contact scheduled with school

MessaggioInviato: 19 settembre 2013, 13:57
da IK0ZCW
Saturday September 21, ARISS contact scheduled with school in Bari, Italy
Written by ON4WF
Thursday, 19 September 2013 09:22

An International Space Station school contact has been planned with participants at Sarnelli De Donato Middle School, Polignano a Mare, Bari, Italy. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 10:03 UTC, which is 12:03 CEST.

The contact will be a telebridge operated by W6SRJ, located in Santa Rosa, California. The event will be webcast on http://www.livestream.com/amsat_italia The contact will be broadcast on EchoLink AMSAT (node 101 377) and JK1ZRW (node 277 208) Conference servers, as well as on IRLP Discovery Reflector 9010.

"Sarnelli De Donato" School is a middle school. It caters for boys and girls, aged 11-14. Located in one of the region’s tourist areas, it is situated in the suburbs of the pleasant town of Polignano a Mare, in the south-east of the APULIA region, south-east of Italy. In its Curriculum the school focuses on: Space Communication, Media Communication, the Environment, Science activities in lab. The school has a gym, an auditorium, a music room, two computer rooms, a new scientific laboratory, a video room, 22 classrooms. At present there are 526 students on roll and they attend the regular class daily, from 8.00 am to 1.00 pm.

The contact is expected to be conducted in Italian by astronaut Luca Parmitano KF5KDP.

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows: