ARLA/CLUSTER: Estudantes nepaleses vão tentar falar com o astronauta britânico Tim Peake (KG5BVI)

[João Costa > CT1FBF]

Nepal students to speak to Tim Peake

UK astronaut Tim Peake KG5BVI will be using amateur radio to talk to
students at Brihaspati Vidhyasadan School in Nepal on Wednesday,
January 20

The Himalayan Times reports this is the first link up between a school
in Nepal and the International Space Station (ISS). It will be a
Telebridge contact via Tony Hutchison VK5ZAI in Australia and is
scheduled for Wednesday, January 20 at 08:37:04 UT. The ISS should be
in range of the Telebridge station for about 8 minutes.

BVS is organising an Exhibition during the week of the contact from
January 19-23. Experts as well as knowledgeable students will be at
hand to respond to queries of visiting students who will be able to
get acquainted with amateur radio during the exhibition.

The Nepal Amateur Radio Operators’ Society is one of the organisations
supporting the exhibition.


BVS students have been building a model of the ISS

Brihaspati Vidyasadan is a 32 year old High school, located in
Kathmandu, Nepal. Brihaspati runs classes from nursery to 100 at
secondary level and the 10+2 program in Science and Management at the
higher secondary Level. Besides these Brihaspati also runs Diploma in
Hospitality Managemant and Tourism in affiliation with Confederation
of Tourism and Hospitality (CTH), UK.

Brihaspati is known for its academic excellence. To date Brihaspati
has produced over 2000 SLC graduates and over 600 +2 graduates who
have achieved excellent academic achievements. Brihaspati has also
been awarded the "Best School in Nepal" in 2055BS.

Brihaspati is also known for its co-curricular and extra-curricular
activities including sports, debates and concerts. Over the years the
school has achieved Inter-school successes in football (soccer),
cricket and basketball at national levels. School has also successes
in inter-school competitions like debate, elocution and concerts.

For its academic, co-curricular and extra-curricular achievements
Brihaspati has been placed among the Class A schools of Nepal by the
Ministry of Education, Government of Nepal.

Brihaspati staff and students have been known for their innovation in
education. The school is reputed to be the first school in Nepal to
introduce computer education. Brihaspati houses clubs like Lokopakar,
which is a student club that looks into Humanitarian aid.  Brihaspati
students recently started �gThink Ink�h, an activity designed using
the principles of Extreme Design from Stanford for instilling critical
thinking and problem solving skills in students. This program has
gained attention of a lot of people in the academia at a very rapid
pace.

Brihaspati is located in a 25 acre land space at the heart of
Kathmandu within the Balmandir compound. It  has academic facility
that is of very high standards. It houses the Free and Open Source
Research Lab and Ham (amateur radio) facility that students and staff
have access to.

Recently during the earthquake of Nepal, one of the buildings of
Brihaspati was used by ham radio operators from Nepal and India to
coordinate search and reconciliation of families where over 500
families were reunited with their loved ones.

Read The Himalayan Times story at
https://thehimalayantimes.com/nepal/nepali-students-to-talk-to-astronaut-in-intl-space-station/

Brihaspati Vidhyasadan School
http://www.bvs.edu.np/bvstalkstoiss/
https://www.facebook.com/bvsTalksToISS/

ARISS
http://www.ariss.org/upcoming-contacts.html