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This is a short video segments about two Canadian high school seniors doing a balloon project. http://cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/tech/2012/01/26/can-weather-balloon-space-project.ctv.htmlSee More

I just got this announcement today and thought that this might be of interest to our community.  Oct. 27, 2011RELEASE: 11-365NASA SEEKING STUDENT EXPERIMENTS FOR BALLOON FLIGHTWASHINGTON -- NASA is accepting applications from graduate and undergraduate university students to fly experiments to the edge of space on a scientific balloon. This balloon flight competition is a joint project between NASA and the Louisiana Space Consortium (LaSPACE) in Baton Rouge. NASA is targeting fall 2012 for the…See More

Amazon has the ContourHD 1080p camera on sale for $140, which is a great price for this camera. It works very well for shooting HD video during a flight and is very simple to operate. http://www.amazon.com/Contour-1300-ContourHD-Camera/dp/B002QGSYZ4BernhardSee More

Hi everybody,Does anybody know of any alternatives to polystyrene foam one could use for building pods? We've been cutting the polystyrene foam with a guitar string connected to a 6 V lead acid battery. It works great and is a lot of fun for the students, but I am not comfortable with polystyrene anymore because of all the attention styrene recently received as a carcinogen. BernhardSee More

This launch was part of an atmospheric chemistry class at DePaul University. Students were measuring the vertical distribution of CO2 in the atmosphere using a LI-820 CO2 Analyzer.

Hello Bolloonatics! One of the high school student groups I am working with this summer is designing a microbiology experiment and would like to monitor UV flux during the flight. Does anybody know of any UV sensors that produce analog signals that could be measured with the Stratostar interface board, Hobo logger, or an analog pin of a microcontroller? Thanks! BernhardSee More