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Setting Up
Pre-Launch
Launch

Setting Up

Set-Up
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Three Blind Youth Slam participants pose with their balloon in the rotunda of the Kim Engineering Building.

 
   

 

 

Rotunda
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Blind Youth Slam participants prep their weather balloons in the rotunda of the Kim Engineering Building.

 
   

 

Bowden
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Aero Visiting Professor Mary Bowden assists one of the teams with their weather balloon.

 
   

 

 


Pre-Launch

 

Pre-Launch
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A Blind Youth Slam participant takes her weather balloon outside for the launch.

 
   

Pre-Launch
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Blind Youth Slam participants get ready for the launch on the Kim Building plaza.

 
   

 

Pre-Launch
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Prof. Mary Bowden (red shirt, center) gives the final countdown for the launch.

 
   

 

Launch

Launch
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The first balloons rise into the air.

 
   

 

Launch
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The final balloons are launched.

 
   

 

In the Air
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The balloons in the air.

 
   

 

Checking the Data
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Clark School students check the data being transmitted from the balloons.

 
   

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