Today started off with running the laboratories with running the temperature sensor laboratory as well as the Monte Carlo Method laboratory with the teachers. The temperature sensors that were built were hot glued together and will be flown on our high altitude balloon next Wednesday.
The Monte Carlo method is a way of predicting, using known data (like NOAA weather data in our case) where an object has the greatest probability of landing. In our case, we can predict landing sites based on known weather patterns and a known launch site (Mt. Greylock).
We approximated landing sites, the cluster near the Vermont/NH border is a launch from Mt. Greylock, while the pins at sea were from a launch from the Photonics center in Boston.
We spent the rest of the day talking about what lessons we will take back to share with our students. I will take back the importance of collaboration and maybe the use of lab notebooks. Also, I will take back the perspective of being someone who has lived in the city- completely different from my life in Western MA.