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High school experiments launched on stratospheric balloons

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The Earth captured from the stratosphere on the Asgard XI mission, covered by clouds and fog, showing a bright blue transition from atmosphere to space.
The Earth captured from the stratosphere on the Asgard XI mission, covered by clouds and fog, showing a bright blue transition from atmosphere to space.
By Yves Janssen Verlaak
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The ASGARD project gives highschool students the opportunity to design and launch real scientific experiments to the edge of space using high-altitude balloons from the Royal Meteorological Institute in Uccle, Brussels. It is a hands-on educational program that simulates a genuine space mission, letting student teams plan, build, test, present and analyze their experiments over the course of a school year. ASGARD campaigns focus on learning, teamwork, and scientific curiosity rather than competition.

I personally had the pleasure of partaking in this project for several years in a row, first assisting senior students, then leading the missions myself and guiding new teammates to work together to design, build and launch new experiments. Below is a list of Asgard campaigns in which I contributed and later led:

Many thanks to my former high school physics teacher and dear friend Dirk Geeroms, whose encouragement and guidance inspired me to pursue these campaigns, as well as to all my teammates, whose collaboration and dedication made every mission possible.

Space Heading Deezers
stratospheric balloon science physics engineering experiment
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