Our Project with a powerpoint to follow: This summer I was given the opportunity to attend the Siemen’s STEM fellowship in Washington DC. While there, we were grouped by teams and were asked to develop a science, technology, engineering, and math related project that we would collaboratively do across state borders. I will be doing this project with a physics/ engineering teacher in Texas, and a math teacher in Louisiana. For our project, we will be launching a weather balloon that will reach 70,000 plus feet. The weather balloon will have a Styrofoam cargo hold (not to exceed 4 lbs by FAA law) that contains a Vernier lab quest, an accelerometer, a barometric pressure sensor, a temperature probe, and then a final probe to be voted on by the students. A GPS phone will be used to track the device and recover the equipment/data. A “spy” camera will be used to record 6 hours of flight. I have a power point and video (by freshmen MIT students that did this last year.) if you want more information. Students will choose two of the multiple variables and try to determine relationships found. (Acceleration, velocities, barometric pressure, height, time, temperature, etc.) They will then share their findings with the students in Texas and Louisiana (via Edmodo, Skype, and Prezi). We will be looking for both similarities and differences in the data obtained. Funding: the Seimens institute gave us each a $100 stipend, UWEC is funding the He donation, and I have been writing grants for the rest. Goal: This project will take place in October/November. The three schools involved will share data from the 3 locations, looking for patterns, similarities, differences via technology. George, a teacher from Texas, will present this project at the NSTA convention in Seattle this December. (He has funding from his school to go and the other two teachers will be “Skyped in”.