Once again we hosted a great group (56 students) from Kenmore East HS outside Buffalo, NY. Each year Tim Freeman and Bob O’Connor put together an amazing field trip for the school; this year visiting Boston, Woods Hole, New York and a mine in Scranton, PA. We divided into 3 groups and rotated between the […]
September: We just completed building an Augmented Reality Sandbox. Check out this video (by developer Oliver Kreylos) showing how cool it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9JXtTj0mzE Look at additional information and clips in our December post. There are only a handful of these in the country. School classes on the Zephyr field trips can use this sandbox while in […]
With the help of Lowell Instruments (www.lowellinstruments.com) we installed a data buoy about a mile east of Nobska Point in Vineyard Sound. It transmits the following data every half hour: wind speed, highest wind gust, air temperature, barometric pressure and surface water temperature (1 meter depth). One interesting thing we’ve found is that surface water […]
June was an exciting month for field trips, aided by the great weather we’ve had in Woods Hole. Classes from Falmouth’s Lawrence Academy, Oak Ridge School in Sandwich, and the Future Scholars program from Mass General Hospital all came out on Vineyard Sound. Chester High School from Pennsylvania came to Woods Hole for several days […]
Thanks to a grant provided by the Richard Lounsbery Foundation, we will run Science at Sea trips at no charge for Boston city school classes from May 5-8, 2014. The two hour trips will run several times per day aboard Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s research vessel “Tioga”. This series is jointly presented by Zephyr, New […]
What Students and Teachers are Saying…
“What a fabulous program! What a fabulous day!
What a fabulous crew! I’m recommending we
make this a permanent trip, and perhaps even
engineer some experiments we can do, leveraging
our new science lab scheduled to open next year.”
– from a teacher’s email
