Updates
ExoLab-13: Mission MushVroom !
We’re absolutely delighted to bring you the next ExoLab experience: Mission MushVroom. ExoLab-13 marks a major departure from our usual missions. We’ve seized a rare and historic opportunity to ride along with a private astronaut crew to achieve something no other humans had ever done: a unique orbital trajectory that flew over the Earth’s poles.…
Prepare Your Students for CAST Success
As California incorporates science into the Education Dashboard and prepares for CAST assessments, we’re offering an essential resource for your educators: the Science Dashboard. Developed by educators through a partnership between Magnitude and Fizzics Education, this comprehensive digital platform is specifically aligned with CAST requirements for Grades 5 and 8, featuring: 250+ experiments with worksheets…
July 23 Lecture: Plants For Space w/ Dr. Frazer Thorpe
Plants provide humans with oxygen, food, shelter, medicine, and countless other resources essential for our survival and well-being. Crop growth during NASA missions is essential to provide fresh foods for crew members while providing oxygen, medicine, and a close tie to earth. Growing plants in microgravity and on the moon facilitates biological science while lifting…
Magnitude introduces VR experience Starborn Academy with Uplift Aerospace
Uplift Aerospace (Symbol: NRPI) has selected magnitude.io/ as an outreach partner to bring Virtual Reality (VR) to schools across the United States and beyond. This collaboration marks a new era of immersive STEM learning and significant expansion of Uplift’s Starborn Academy into strategic global markets, including a main focus on California school districts. The new…
Lifting Science Test Scores: Unlocking the Wonders of Science
We are excited to announce that world class educator Ben Newsome from Fizzics Education Australia will be in Northern California this February and March 2024. This is a unique opportunity to ignite a spark of scientific curiosity and wonder in the minds of 5th grade students in preparation for the California Science Test (CAST) through…
Bitmoji in Space!
We are excited to announce a fun project that we did with Bitmoji and the ISS US National Laboratory for Teachers and Students. More poses will come out next week as will more details about how YOU might be able to get you Bitmoji into space on our next mission in February! Stay tuned… …
A Day of Data Science at Wilhelmina Henry Elementary in Stockton
Analyzing the data captured by the CanSat during the balloon launch is the most important part of the lesson and activity. Today we spent some time with the students at Wilhelmina Henry Elementary School in Stockton looking at the data and how a lot of answers could be in the raw videos. Creating charts to…
Lodi School District High Altitude Balloon Launch
By Nicholas Filipas Record Staff Writer Posted Apr. 1, 2016 at 7:10 PM STOCKTON — The weather conditions on Friday were just right. Light winds; low humidity and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky. A perfect day to launch a weather balloon 100,000 feet and beyond into the atmosphere. Seventh- and eighth-grade…