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Colorado Space Grant Consortium Pikes Peak Community College

Colorado Space Grant Consortium Pikes Peak Community College. Accomplishments: 2010 - 2011. Leading Up To This Past Year’s Effort. We created an education experience for a selected group of students on ionizing radiation

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Colorado Space Grant Consortium Pikes Peak Community College

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  1. Colorado Space Grant ConsortiumPikes Peak Community College Accomplishments: 2010 - 2011

  2. Leading Up To This Past Year’s Effort • We created an education experience for a selected group of students on ionizing radiation • We created a presentation on ionizing radiation in the natural environment • We utilized a series of experiments to demonstrate radiation characteristics and effects

  3. PTerPProxima Terra Project • PPCC’s first BalloonSat project • Student led • Student driven • Student executed • Faculty advised Brittney Eck, Brandon Driver, Geriann Henderson, David Malinaric, Austin Wasinger Advisors: Bud Murch, Bob Day

  4. Major Experiments: • Meteorological Data • Temperature inside payload and outside • Relative humidity • Pressure • Radiation Environment • Ionizing radiation with Geiger counters • Ionizing radiation with nuclear emulsions • UVA and UVB

  5. Major Experiments: • Imaging • Automated digital camera • Biological sensors (Bacillus & E Coli) • Investigate the growth rate dependence of near space exposure • Investigate the effect of near space exposure on mutations

  6. Results • Approximately two thirds of the experiments returned useable data. • Meteorological results were excellent • For example the pressure data

  7. Results • Radiation measurements also were excellent showing the expected altitude effect. • The nuclear emulsion results showed evidence of high energy particle events but require further data analysis.

  8. Results • The biological results were partially successful • The camera did not return data. • The most important results was the excitement and reward of designing, building, fielding, and reducing the data from a complex, single shot experiment.

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