• FabSLAM Regionals Coming March 9th BMSA Represented by the Water Warriors!

    Water Warriors

     

    So proud of all of our FabSLAM teams who competed against each other to represent BMSA at the regional FabSLAM contest on March 9th, 2019. Our teams were:

     

    Team Redfish: Alternative to fish ladders to lesson stress on Salmon.

     

    Air Separaters: Device to extract nitrogen from polluted air.

     

    Water Warriors: Filter system in storm drains to keep trash from Boise river and protect wildlife.

     

    BAZH: New robotic drilling device with a vacuum system for dust and mined materials for use in Idaho mines to prevent lung diseases.

     

    APT's: A plant filtration system to clean the air around the sugar beet factory and other industrial plants. 

    FabSLAM Challenge

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  • Boise Code Camp 2019

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  • Boise Code Camp 2019

    Boise Code Camp
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  • Block Kids at BSU

    Block Kids at BSU

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  • Try out Hour of Code.  At www.code.org you and your student can work together to learn, practice and advance in coding. There are programs and activities for all ages and ability levels. 

    Hour of Code

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  • Girls Write the Web

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  • Parents: Here is the link for the parent survey on Safe and Collaborative Culture. If you haven't taken this survey for your student's teacher you can link to it here. Only needs to be taken once per family.

    https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=KyXW4JNKfkeIXDoD7rx3U3wo0Z_pc3pNk9pERhXY_nZUQlhZOTZCTk5SQ1BEWDFSQ01LTUVPRERHWC4u

     
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  • Experiments will be sent back to our school in the coming weeks. Watch for new announcements!

    Cubes in Space Finally Lifts Off

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  • BSU Engineering & Science Festival

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  • RB-3/RB-4 Launch attempt TODAY Sep 8 - watch live operations NOW! 4;50 EDT
    by Amber Agee-DeHart - Saturday, 8 September 2018, 2:52 PM
     

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  • We made it!   On September 8th we finally launched.  There was a small window where conditions were favorable for us to get off the ground.  We reached a maximum altitude of 96K feet (29 km), which was about 30K feet below target altitude.  However, we were in a near-space environment for at least 5 hours!  So your experiments were bombarded with radiation and suffered through extreme temperature and pressure changes!  The mission had to be terminated around midnight as the winds shifted which would cause the balloon to land in populated areas of Arizona.  But....we finally got off the ground!  

    Here are some pictures in case you missed them on social media.  And I am still working on the video editing.  We have a "little" inconvenience called Hurricane Florence that i actually a monster of a hurricane headed to the East Coast.  We've been prepping for the storm this week.  Florence is a Category 4 hurricane that is going to cause devastation because of 12-15 feet (or more) storm surge to coastal areas where it lands.  Fortunately, we are now out of danger of the catastrophic effects of the storm.  But our area could still see 1-3 foot storm surge with torrential rains lasting for days.  And let's not forget wind.  Saturated ground + wind + trees = power outages.   So if you don't hear from us for a while...it's because we have no power.  Our prayers and thoughts for all our friends and loved ones along the North Carolina, South Carolina and Northern Georgia coast.  

    But as promised - here are some pics!  We will not receive the experiments back to Virginia for several weeks.  Therefore, it will be October before we can send them back to you.  

     



     
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  • Find STEM events in Idaho through the Idaho STEM Pipeline.

    Idaho STEM Pipeline

    Idaho STEM Pipeline
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    RB-3/RB-4 Launch Attempt on Friday, September 7th!
    by Amber Agee-DeHart - Thursday, 6 September 2018, 2:56 PM
     
     
    Cubes in Space

    Greetings,

    We have our best launch window conditions tomorrow and Saturday (Sept 7th  and 8th)  on NASA's SIFT mission launching from the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Ft. Sumner, NM (if you did not know by now :-) .  We will be flying on a 29 million cubic foot (MCF)  balloon with a minimum time at float of 4 hours of daylight and 4 hours of night.  Roll-out will be around 3:30 AM MDT which is 5:30 AM EDT (9:30 UTC +6)  and launch will be at approximately 7 AM MDT.  All this means that the balloon will be in the air for at least 13-14 hours with at least 8 of those hours in near-space conditions.  

    There will be isolated showers in the region in the morning, but the CSBF meteorologist thinks they will stay to the south.  The winds are favorable and will be light from the east.  With the total flight time and light winds, the balloon will land somewhere in Arizona possibly close to the Mexico border.  That's a 2-day drive out to the landing location to retrieve the balloon and payloads.  

    If we do not launch tomorrow, Saturday looks even better as far as launch conditions!  So we have 2 days with a high likelihood of launch.  But remember with balloon launches, they are never a guarantee.  

    Here is a link that will provide different camera streams to view operations in the hangar, on the tarmac, and in the air!  https://towerfts.csbf.nasa.gov/flightvideo.htm

    One risk to powered experiments - the CSBF ground crew may not have time to turn on your experiments.  There are no NASA Langley Research Center engineers out there to support our payload.  So you may be flying passively on Friday.  There MAY be someone arriving late tomorrow night.  If we launch on Saturday, the experiments MAY be able to be activated.  And unfortunately no amount of begging, pleading or cajoling will make the situation different.  So I politely ask that you do not besiege me with emails, texts and other instant messages.  Thank you in advance for your understanding.  

    Let's hope we have "smooth sailing" tomorrow!

    Amber
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  • STEM Camp for GirlsSTEM Girl's Camp

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  • Students in the spring of 2017 submitted a project to idoodledu  that was to be flown on a NASA based scientific balloon experiment into space. The experiment was due to fly in Fall of 2017 but was postponed. The newest update is that it will attempt to take off this August 2018. 

    The student's hypothesized tht the volcanic soil common in Idaho might be similar to the volcanic soil on Mars and might insulate a seed from the extreme temperatures of space and still allow for germination. They felt if it worked for a seed in our volcanic soil and exposed to extreme temperature changes on Earth the results might be the same on Martian soil.  

    Cubes in Space 1

    Cubes in Space 3 Cubes in Space 2

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  • Summer Garden Help

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  • A group of 3rd grade students are investigating the similarities and differences between tomato seeds flown on the ISS and those that stayed on Earth. 

     

    Visit our garden this summer and observe the plants. 

    Tomatosphere

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    Student Presenters are Amazing!

     

     

    Our students have done a great job this year presenting at the Idaho Education Technology Association conference and at Boise Code Camp. So proud of them all!

    Student Presenters

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