Date: May 2025
Amount: $110,107

Teachers in Space (TIS) supports K-12 teachers by providing hands-on STEM training. They focus on amateur radio, CubeSats, and space science. Through their Pathways to Space program, teachers get the tools and help they need to bring satellite communications and related experiments into their classrooms. The program especially reaches out to underserved communities. Activities teachers participate in include:

• Assemble an Arduino microcontroller and sensors.
• Program an Arduino and collect data from the sensors.
• Assemble a CubeSat frame with an Arduino microcontroller.
• Integrate CubeSats onto a high altitude balloon launch platform.
• Learn Arduino programming to build and control space-related devices.
• Launch, communicate with, and recover a high altitude balloon mission using the Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS).
• Utilize APRS to track and recover High Altitude Balloon missions.
• Communicate with CubeSats on orbital missions via amateur radio.
• Collect, analyze, present, and disseminate data collected from CubeSat missions.
• Set up and use Software Defined Radio (SDR) and associated hardware to collect data from orbital satellites.

Learn more at https://www.tis.org/.