10.2.4 EOSS/University of Colorado
Edge of Space Sciences (EOSS) is a Denver, CO based non-profit organization
that promotes science and education by exploring frontiers in amateur radio and
high altitude balloons. The organization works with educators, offering valuable
opportunities to enhance their students’ STEM studies by way of real, hands-on
experience. It provides FAA coordination, launch, tracking, and recovery of the
payloads. In a given year, volunteers spend thousands of hours to enable student
STEM programs to reach the edge of space.
EOSS is widely recognized as one of the premier Amateur Radio High Altitude
Balloon (ARHAB) organizations in the world. It has been launching high altitude
balloon experiments on behalf of universities, colleges, high schools and middle
schools for over a quarter of a century. The EOSS charter is to “promote science
and education through high altitude balloons and amateur radio”. It has helped to
start STEM in the curriculum of hundreds of higher learning institutions around
the U.S. More than 50,000 students have directly or indirectly participated with
experiments designed and built as part of curriculum requirements to investigate
scientific principles and phenomenon in near space.
Fig. 10.3 Project HALON’s high altitude balloon launch. Dr. Derrick Nero gets ready
to launch a balloon while students from various area K-12 schools look on. Photo courtesy of the University of Nebraska at Omaha
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Edge of Space Sciences (EOSS) is a Denver, CO based non-profit organization
that promotes science and education by exploring frontiers in amateur radio and
high altitude balloons. The organization works with educators, offering valuable
opportunities to enhance their students’ STEM studies by way of real, hands-on
experience. It provides FAA coordination, launch, tracking, and recovery of the
payloads. In a given year, volunteers spend thousands of hours to enable student
STEM programs to reach the edge of space.
EOSS is widely recognized as one of the premier Amateur Radio High Altitude
Balloon (ARHAB) organizations in the world. It has been launching high altitude
balloon experiments on behalf of universities, colleges, high schools and middle
schools for over a quarter of a century. The EOSS charter is to “promote science
and education through high altitude balloons and amateur radio”. It has helped to
start STEM in the curriculum of hundreds of higher learning institutions around
the U.S. More than 50,000 students have directly or indirectly participated with
experiments designed and built as part of curriculum requirements to investigate
scientific principles and phenomenon in near space.
Fig. 10.3 Project HALON’s high altitude balloon launch. Dr. Derrick Nero gets ready
to launch a balloon while students from various area K-12 schools look on. Photo courtesy of the University of Nebraska at Omaha
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