WYOMING: Space Grant holds High-Altitude

Last week, Wyoming Space Grant hosted a small group of educators for their first high-altitude balloon workshop in many years. The group received a crash course in the art of high-altitude ballooning. To cap it off, they successfully flew payloads they built up to 90,000 feet. The Summer 2022 High-Altitude Balloon Workshop was held July 26-28, at the University of Wyoming in Laramie.

Workshop was open to teachers and educators based in Wyoming. No prior ballooning experience was required.

Workshop attendees learned about:

• Educational opportunities available through the Wyoming NASA Space Grant
• The history and future of Wyoming Space Grant’s high-altitude balloon program
• The entire high-altitude balloon process from start to finish (i.e., payload development, logistics, launch, tracking, and recovery)
• Ways to implement balloon payload development, experiment design, and data analysis in the classroom