Sally Ride EarthKAM April 2023 Mission Report
JBM Global School, Noida

ABOUT THE PROGRAMME: Sally Ride EarthKAM is a NASA sponsored project. EarthKAM means Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle school students. It is an educational program that enables students to take pictures of their own planet from a digital camera on board the International Space Station (ISS) via a web interface. International Space Station is an artificial satellite where astronauts reside for various experiments based on micro-gravity. EarthKAM camera is till date a permanent payload on board the ISS and supports approximately four missions annually, one for each season. The recent mission was opened from 11^th April to 14^thApril 2023

DATE OF CONDUCTION: 11^th April 2023

TIME AND VENUE: Senior Computer Lab

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS: A total of 48 students participated in this workshop. List of the participants are as follows-

S.No	Name Of Student	Class, Section
1	AASHVI SHAH	VIII-A
2	ADHYA JAIN	VIII-A
3	ADHYAN KHANNA	VIII-A
4	AKSHITA CHAUHAN	VIII-A
5	ANAM	VIII-A
6	ANSUYA	VIII-A
7	APOORV	VIII-A
8	DHRUV	VIII-A
9	LAKSHYA	VIII-A
10	IDARMISH	VIII-A
11	KHUSH	VIII-A
12	LAVISH	VIII-A
13	NAITIK	VIII-A
14	OM	VIII-A
15	PRAKRITI	VIII-A
16	SAAMIR BISHT	VIII-A
17	SAANVI NAGAR	VIII-A
18	SOCHIT KUMAR	VIII-A
19	SAMRAT SINGH	VIII-A
20	VANSIKA SAH	VIII-A
21	VIHAAN ROHATGI	VIII-A
22	YASHI NAGAR	VIII-A
23	YASHIKA ARORA	VIII-A
24	ADITYA SANGWAN	VIII-B
25	AKSHIT KUMAR ROY	VIII-B
26	AKSHITA DWIVEDI	VIII-B

27	AMRIT ROY	VIII-B
28	ARNAV SINGH	VIII-B
29	AVIKA CHAUDHARY	VIII-B
30	DEV CHAUHAN	VIII-B
31	DIVIT KHANDELWAL	VIII-B
32	JANYA DUREJA	VIII-B
33	KAAVYA CHAUHAN	VIII-B
34	OJUS TANDON	VIII-B
35	RAKSHIT SHANDILYA	VIII-B
36	RUDRANSH SHRIVASTAVA	VIII-B
37	SANCHIKA AGARWAL	VIII-B
38	SAVI UMAKANT KSHIRSAGAR	VIII-B
39	SIMON WALIYA	VIII-B
40	VASHU TYAGI	VIII-B
41	ADWAITT SHUKLA	VIII-CAMBRIDGE
42	SHRIYANSH PATEL	VIII-CAMBRIDGE
43	PRABHMEHAR	VIII-CAMBRIDGE
44	ANUBHAV SHRIVASTAVA	VIII-CAMBRIDGE
45	NIBHIT	VIII-CAMBRIDGE
46	VANSH SHARMA	VIII-CAMBRIDGE
47	SAUYMYA CHAUHAN	VIII-CAMBRIDGE
48	KRISHNA	VIII-CAMBRIDGE

DETAILS OF THE WORKSHOP: The workshop took place in Sr. Computer Lab of the school from 10:05AM – 11:20AM. A total of 48 students from different schools were part of this workshop.

Students were briefed about ISS and then guided to select locations of interest and request ISS EarthKAM to take images of those locations.

The workshop started with a presentation on Sally Ride EarthKAM and a brief demonstration of how the program interface works by an educator, who showed the students how to request for the photographs keeping various aspects such as orbital path of ISS, weather, location, and day/night preference in mind.

After this, the students were given the freedom to choose their own locations and spent an hour of exciting time locating regions of their interest and requesting for photographs after examining weather, orbits and other aspects. Students researched and selected locations of environmental, climactic and geographical interest such natural disasters, coasts and forests, deforestation, glaciers and landscapes and monuments etc.

The project helped students understand about ISS and gave them hands on experience of researching specific locations and submitting to the project for photography.

The workshop ended with the students writing Messages to Astronauts.

PHOTOGRAPHS OF THE EVENT:

Students understood about Sally Ride EarthKam

Students filled their target sheets

Students selected different locations

Students requested for images using the web interface

PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN BY ISS:

Image of Jim Corbett requeted by Advait Shukla

Image of Pir Panja Range requested by Krishna

Image of Valley of Flower requested by Shriyansh

Image of Hafa Al Batin requested by Prabhmeher

MESSAGES TO ASTRONAUT / FEEDBACK:
• Hello! My name is Nibhit. How are you? I also want to be an astronaut. Wish you good luck on your next mission.

Report compiled by:
Javed Alam EDUCATOR SPACE