SATLAB day 1

We made it to Gainesville! I'm here with 3 of my high school students, 3 from Spain and 3 from Gainesville to work on building experiment packages that are going to be launched on a weather balloon near Kennedy Space Center next week. 

It was a fun first day filled with learning about NASA, learning about the GPS tracking for our balloon and learning about how to set up our experiments. Unfortunately, the UV sensors we have couldn't be tested (thanks Florida weather) but hoepfully tomorrow everything will go smoothly... But maybe not, because science. :) We think our experiment is going to gather data for us on how well different SPF sunscreen works with changing amounts of UV radiation. 

Looking forward to dinner and tomorrow! 

The building where we're working! 

In the lobby of the building... Yay NASA! 

On the roof, we didn't see the SpaceX launch, but we did see the swamp! Go Gators! 

Just starting our experiment! 

Working! 

Saran Wrap was not our friend.