| Day 1 |
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| 7:00 AM |
Registration |
| 7:05 AM |
Working Breakfast and PreAssessment of Workshop |
| 8:00 AM |
Welcome |
| 8:10 AM |
Introductions and Overview of Goals |
| 9:00 AM |
Break |
| 9:10 AM |
Overview of Balloon and History of Taylor and StratoSart |
| 9:30 AM |
Introduction to the Different Payload Projects to be Implemented |
| 9:45 AM |
Introduction to Near-Space Environment & FAA Rules |
| 10:25 AM |
Break |
| 10:30 AM |
Introduction: Building Payloads |
| 11:30 AM |
Lunch |
| 12:00 AM |
Hands-on Activity: Start Building your Payloads |
| 2:00 PM |
How to Conduct a High-Altitude Balloon Launch (Classroom) |
| 3:00 PM |
Break |
| 3:15 PM |
Field Preparation: Final Assembly of Balloon Payload |
| 4:00 PM |
Launch Balloons / Chase / Dinner |
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| Day 2 |
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| 6:00 AM |
Alternate Balloon Launch Time |
| 7:00 AM |
Working Breakfast Day 1 Launch & recovery |
| 8:15 AM |
Class Implementation & HARP Assessment Results |
| 9:25 AM |
Break |
| 9:30 AM |
Guest Speaker |
| 10:00 AM |
Break |
| 10:15 AM |
Data Analysis for Everyone (Intro to raw data format) |
| 12:00 PM |
Lunch |
| 12:30 PM |
Research options for near space |
| 1:00 PM |
Break out session: technical, funding, course implementation |
| 2:00 PM |
Break |
| 2:05 PM |
Implementation at your University |
| 2:45 PM |
Nuts & Bolts of starting a program |
| 3:15 PM |
Post Assessment of Workshop |
| 4:00 PM |
Dinner and Closing Remarks - feedback from Universities |
