{"id":11526,"date":"2015-10-05T02:05:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-05T06:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11526"},"modified":"2015-10-05T02:05:32","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T06:05:32","slug":"new-book-on-using-the-mini-cube-for-stem-now-in-paperback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=11526","title":{"rendered":"New book on using the Mini-Cube for STEM now in paperback"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve posted here many times<\/a>\u00a0about JP Aerospace<\/a>, which has been flying high altitude balloons and airships for over 30 years. Founded and led by John Powell, the part professional, part volunteer organization has won\u00a0USAF contracts, carried out\u00a0multiple promotional flights for companies from around the world, and developed a number of innovations in the technology\u00a0of Near Space.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, JPA has a very active education program. Over 50,000 students have had their PongSats<\/a> taken to the edge of space for free by JPA.<\/p>\n

\"FourPongSatsOn2014Flight\"<\/a>Four PongSats mounted on a JPA balloon structure
\nduring a high-altitude\u00a0flight in October 2014<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

A PongSat is a ping-pong ball with a tiny experiment inside of it. A few years ago, JPA introduced\u00a0the Mini-Cube<\/a>, which provides a standardize plastic box structure, 5 cm to a side, in which more sophisticated and elaborate experiments can be enclosed and flown for a fee to Near Space.<\/p>\n

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Back in May<\/a> I posted about an ebook written by\u00a0Gregory N. Cecil<\/a>\u00a0that provides a step-by-step tutorials for teachers, students, and anyone else on how use a Mini-Cube for low-cost educational Near Space experiments and demonstrations. The book is now available in paperback:\u00a0Classroom Laboratory at the Edge of Space: Introducing the Mini-Cube Program<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

A book written for secondary public and private school STEM instructors, home schooling, and undergraduate STEM courses of study explaining how to set up their own student focused “space program” utilizing the Mini-Cube Program. With this Informal STEM Project Based Learning Activity, students can have the unique, affordable, and challenging opportunity to send experiments via high altitude balloon to an altitude of 100,000 feet (20 miles or 32 km), commonly known as the “edge of space.” Utilizing the scientific method, team work, research, and communicating in writing the results and applications for peer review, students will participate in the full cycle of an actual experiment from the original question to the published results and conduct true science at the edge of space.<\/em><\/p>\n

Utilizing the scientific method, team work, research, and communicating in writing the results and applications for peer review, students will participate in the full cycle of an actual experiment from the original question to the published results and conduct true science at the edge of space.<\/em><\/p>\n

Here is the table of contents for the book:<\/p>\n

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I’ve posted here many times\u00a0about JP Aerospace, which has been flying high altitude balloons and airships for over 30 years. Founded and led by John Powell, the part professional, part volunteer organization has won\u00a0USAF contracts, carried out\u00a0multiple promotional flights for companies from around the world, and developed a number of innovations in the technology\u00a0of Near … Continue reading New book on using the Mini-Cube for STEM now in paperback<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-near-space","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-2ZU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7306,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7306","url_meta":{"origin":11526,"position":0},"title":"JP Aerospace and PongSats in MAKE","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"The latest issue of MAKE magazine has an article about\u00a0JP Aerospace\u00a0and their PongSats\u00a0program:\u00a0Flight of the Space-Grazing Ping Pong Balls - MAKE Don't forget the JPA crowdfunding campaign to fund the flight of 2000 PongSats for school kids this fall:\u00a02000 Student Projects to the Edge of Space by John Powell \u2014\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "DIY space"","block_context":{"text":"DIY space","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10098,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=10098","url_meta":{"origin":11526,"position":1},"title":"JP Aerospace flies margaritas to edge of space","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 10, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"JP Aerospace continues to find customers for high altitude commercials:\u00a0Flying Margarita! - JP Aerospace Blog JPA were tasked once again to show that space is for everybody!\u00a0\u00a0 On National Margarita Day we send blenders, cameras and a particular famous mix to the edge of space. 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