Graded's Ardusat: To Infinity and Beyond

On August 3rd, 2013 Graded’s Ardusat team’s experiment will be launching from Japan to the International Space Station (ISS). The launch will take place this Saturday at 16:48pm São Paulo time, or Sunday at 4:48am Japan time. The experiment will be run from an Arduino Satellite to measure and keep track of the way solar flares affect the radiation of the earth’s atmosphere. Several other schools have carried out an experiment on the Ardusat however, this is the first time Nanosatisfi and NASA have sponsored a Brazilian school to use it. In the next few weeks, the team will monitor the data collected by the satellite, and later on release the results. You can watch the release live at this LINK.

Yes. This is the actual rocket.

Graded's New App Developers Organization

Friday after school was the first meeting for the Graded App Developers Organization. Maybe the next Mike Krieger will come out of this group's work. This group of high school students will be working with Luciano Romalho to run a 10 week course on programming for middle school students. The course kicks off on February 27. The Graded App Developers Organization actually has several projects that they are working on. They will organize this middle school course, continue to hone their skills in app development so that they can create apps for sale, and run these same type of courses for members of the outside community. Lofty goals but the group seems to be focused. For those of you who are wondering if there is a demand for programming here at Graded - The e-mail went out to MS parents at 1619 on the Friday before Carnaval and by 1650 there had already been six students who responded that they wanted to join the class.