Servizio TG3 Regione Piemonte:
An International Space Station ARISS contact has been planned for astronaut
Nicole Stott KE5GJN with students at Trevigi Lower Secondary School in Casale
Monferato, Italy.
Trevigi Lower Secondary School is a prestigious educational institution in the
city centre of Casale Monferrato. Casale is a small town situated on the River
Po, in Piedmont (Northern Italy). The 450 students, boys and girls, are between
11 and 14 years old.
The school offers a good standard education through several basic subjects of
study that develop the student#146;s general knowledge. They also study English
and French or Spanish as foreign languages.
A virtual travel in space, communicating with astronauts, is the final event of
several school activities concerning Science, History, Geography, Maths,
Information Technology and English. Also, it will help students to improve
their communicative skills.
The contact will be a direct operated by ground station IK1SLD Friday 2
October 2009 at 14:46 UTC, which is 16:46 CEST.
Downlink signals will be audible over Central Europe on 145.800MHz FM.
The contact will be distributed on *AMSAT* and *JK1ZRW* EchoLink servers.
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