Citrus College Near Space Balloon Project 2013-2014 Volume 1 | Page 10
Table of costs and possible expenditures: Item Cost Amount 8 2 8 1 1 Total+10%= Launch $700 2 Days 5 5 5 5 Total $4,000 $2,330 $800 $500 $200 $8,613 $9,313
Roundtrip Plane $500 Tickets Hotel Room $233 Food Transportation Gas $20 $100 $200
IV. Educational Engagement
The Space Owls are committed to community involvement, which includes engaging in outreach activities with middle and elementary school students. These outreach activities give the research team members the chance to bond, communicate, and let their inner creativity come through. More importantly, however, it is an opportunity for young students to learn new concepts, use critical thinking skills, and appreciate the sciences- all the while having fun. This year, the team and its outreach officer will actively work on planning events wherein students will have a hands-on experience with ballooning. The outreach theme the Space Owls have chosen this year, which most outreach events will be centered around, is buoyancy. At every event the team will also include a PowerPoint presentation that has an explanation as to who the team members are, what they are doing in college as a research team, and how the young students can prepare themselves for getting involved in science throughout high school and college. Throughout the year, the team is expected to have at least four outreach events. The districts the Space Owls will be contacting include Glendora and its surrounding districts: Monrovia, Claremont, Azusa, and Covina. Hands-on activities The planning of the activities that will be hands-on for the students is still in progress. One of the small activities planned involves buoyancy theory called the raft competition. In this experiment, a small group of students will use aluminum foil to create a boat in a size of their choice, and attempt to put in as many pennies in it as they can without it sinking. The concept behind this activity is to illustrate that the amount of weight from the object floating on the water must balance the buoyant force pushing upwards on the object. The team’s ultimate goal is to allow the students to have fun and learn at the same time.
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