An International Space Station school contact is scheduled with participants at Maani Ulujuk High School, Rankin Inlet, Nunavut, Canada. Astronaut will be Chris Hadfield KC5RNJ/VA3OOG. The event is to begin at approximately 14:34:36 UTC, which is 16:34:36 CEST.

The contact will be a telebridge operated by IK1SLD, located in North Italy. Interested parties in Europe are invited to listen to dowlink signals on 145.800 MHz FM.

School presentation: Maani Ulujuk Ilinniarvik (MUI) is located in Rankin Inlet, Nunavut (Population Approximately 3000) on the North west side of Hudson Bay. It is one of three schools in the Rankin Inlet system and hosts grades 7 – 12. The current Maani Ulujuk building is approximately 32 years old and is the second of two buildings with the same name; the first being destroyed by fire. MUI was named after an Elder( Maani Ulujuk), who at the time of its naming, was the oldest elder in the community. There are 353 students, 24 teachers, 6 Student Support Assistants, 1 Secretary, 1 School Community Counsellor and 2 caretakers.

Even though we don’t have a space club, we do have a vibrant Science program which hosts a science fair annually and students have been exposed to the space program in the curriculum. Students and staff were excited last year when we were slated to do a space hookup in April; however, it did get cancelled and we are pleased that it is on again for this year. Students at MUI are great young leaders and they love to participate in novel events such as contacting the astronauts on the Space Station. This will be an awesome event and we look forward to participating.

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:

An International Space Station school contact is scheduled with participants at Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, USA. Astronaut will be Christopher J. Cassidy, KF5KDR. Maine is Cassidy’s home state. The event is to begin at approximately 14:38:47 UTC, which is 16:38:47 CEST. The contact will be a telebridge operated by IK1SLD, located in North Italy. Interested parties in Europe are invited to listen to dowlink signals on 145.800 MHz FM.

School presentation: In an arrangement proposed by the Bates College Museum of Art in conjunction with our 2012 exhibition Starstruck: The Fine Art of Astrophotography, local 8th Grade students are preparing to talk with astronauts on the International Space Station in April through the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station program (ARISS). Please keep up-to-date on contact details through bates.edu/museum/events/

Students from the Auburn and Lewiston middle schools will take part in the live radio communication. Members of ARISS were excited by how our project brought the world of art and creativity into a program aimed at science, technology, engineering and math classrooms. To prepare for the contact, students visited the exhibition as part of their space science unit, researched comets and geomagnetic storms, modeled the solar system, explored citizen-science projects like Galaxy Zoo, and, using NASA’s Astronomy Picture of the Day as a model, researched Starstruck images and wrote paragraphs explaining their significance.

It is gratifying to see an art exhibition ignite so much interest in such a wide variety of subjects, and especially to see a reunification of art and science achieved through this exhibition and the ARISS program. Senators Angus King and Susan Collins and Congressman Michael Michaud have been invited to attend the event.

Participants will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:

An International Space Station school contact is scheduled with participants at Gray Mountain Primary School, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada. The event is to begin at approximately 18:47:50 UTC, which is 20:47:50 CEST.

The contact will be a telebridge operated by IK1SLD, located in North Italy. Interested parties in Europe are invited to listen to dowlink signals on 145.800 MHz FM.

School presentation: The incredible opportunity to speak with the I.S.S. and Chris Hadfield has sparked a frenzy of space related themes and ideas throughout our school and inspired the community. Our small school has been transformed into a space education station with student-created learning displays and artwork throughout. The kids have been reading and writing using space to inspire imaginations and incorporating space exploration into math and science lessons. We have a local artist who is coming to build a life size Soyuz spacecraft out of recycled materials with the Grade 2s and 3s and the media is incredibly excited. The entire process is being documented with pictures and video from the ground, which will lead up to the contact and everyone involved is on pins and needles.

Participants will ask as many of the following multilingual questions as time allows:

An International Space Station school contact is scheduled with participants at John McCrae High School, Nepean, Ontario, Canada. The event is to begin at approximately 18:05 UTC, which is 20:05 CEST. The contact will be a telebridge operated by IK1SLD, located in North Italy. Interested parties in Europe are invited to listen to dowlink signals on 145.800 MHz FM.

School presentation: John McCrae Secondary school is named after the Canadian poet and doctor who during World War I, wrote the famous war memorial poem "In Flanders Fields". With this heritage in mind our school hosts large community Remembrance Day ceremonies every November 11 and celebrates community works of art in the "Red Poppy" gallery. John McCrae students consistently rank among the best academic performers in the province, gaining post secondary acceptance across North America and winning many entrance scholarships. Our specialty High Performance Athlete program attracts some of the best young athletes in Ottawa and they have contributed to several recent provincial championships.

Participants will ask as many of the following multilingual questions as time allows: