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Wednesday, May 11, 2016 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon 23 The Nugget Newspaper Crossword By Jacqueline E. Mathews, Tribune News Service — Last Week’s Puzzle Solved — photo by erin borla Students prepare for launch. BALLOON: Device was recovered by students in Maupin Continued from page 3 Collins and Cal Allen of the Sisters Science Club, connected with SHS Science teacher Rima Givot last year. 2015 was the first year he worked directly with her chemistry classes. “This year, the students have taken a more active role,” says Peterzen. “It’s been hard because we have only had two weeks to study, discuss and develop their experiments.” Last Wednesday, both Givot’s chemistry classes met at Sisters Eagle Airport to launch their experiments with one of the smaller 600-gram latex balloons. Everything had to be right; the baromet- ric pressure, the weather, the cloud cover, and the wind speed. “This balloon we used today is significantly smaller than what I launch,” says Peterzen. “The larger bal- loons could house the entire high school and take a 70-foot crane to place.” Those larger balloons have the capability to cir- cumnavigate the planet. In fact, in June of 2006, ISTAR launched the first circumpo- lar balloon flight which mea- sured the flux of the earth’s magnetic field. Givot and her classes were hard at work on Wednesday putting the finishing touches on their experiments, check- ing the weather, taking notes, and readying the helium. The high school’s two dif- ferent experiments went up around 9 a.m. from Sisters Eagle Airport. The experiments were carried by the latex balloon and armed with a GoPro. The balloon traveled miles before it was collected by the “student retrieval team” near Maupin that same afternoon. Next week, the students in both classes will review the data collected and analyze it. “This has been an opportu- nity for our students to apply the concepts they learn in class in a hands-on way,” said Givot. “It has been an amaz- ing opportunity for student- directed research and to apply to real life what they have been learning in the classroom.” Recently, Peterzen has been working with Sir Julian Knott, a balloon historian from the United Kingdom. It is his hope that he can put together a team of students consisting of 10 Flemish stu- dents, 10 students from the United Kingdom and two high school students from Sisters to join him at a bal- loon launch from his base in Norway in September. This Week’s Crossword Sponsors Essentials Skincare EXPRESS SIGNATURE FACIAL - $35 Cfeanse. Exfofiate. Treatment masque. BEAUTIFUL BACK TREATMENT - $35 Deep cfeanse. Sugar or saft scrub. Massage. Masque. GENTLEMAN’S FACIAL - $35 Deep pore cfeanse. Hot barber towefs. Enzyme peef. Customized masque. 541-480-1412 | 541-588-6271 | 492 E. Main Ave. | Mon-Sat Flexible Hours | www.SistersEssentials.com Pump & Electrical Contractor WE CAN FIX IT ALL IRRIGATION/WELL PUMP SERVICE FREQUENCY DRIVES • MOTOR CONTROLS • PUMPS A Division of 24-HOUR EMERGENCY SERVICE Sisters Owned CCB#178543 Curt 541-480-1404 • Zach 541-420-8170 ned! LTcally Tw Simple Ways TT Eat Fresh… DON’T spend lTts Tf time in the kitchen Tr lTts Tf mTney at the stTre. DO break away frTm prTcessed fTTds & help yTu and yTur family tT eat healthy & with ease! CLASS & MEAL Saturday, May 28, 6:30 tT 8:30 p.m. Angelena Bosco 760-415-6345 www.simplenfresh.cTm
