Help support over 70 teams, comprised of more than 1,000 middle school, high school and university students from across the nation, who are designing, building, testing, and flying high altitude balloons that will live stream the upcoming total solar eclipse from near the edge of space.
The Eclipse Ballooning Project needs to raise 20K by June 30th to help the teams conduct practice launches, replace payloads lost during practice, and replace parts broken though testing.
These students need your help to participate in this exciting, engaging, real-world, hands-on, life-changing experience and to give the world an opportunity to come together as a community to participate in this spectacular event!
The National Space Grant Foundation started this fundraiser to help students from Oregon to South Carolina launch more than 70 high-altitude balloons on August 21, 2017 along the path of the first total solar eclipse to occur across the continental U.S. in over 38 years. Project activities by students, mentors, faculty, and staff have far exceeded our resources to fund everyone. So, we need your help. All donations are tax deductible as they are being made to the National Space Grant Foundation, a 501(c)3, non-profit organization.
Providing real-world experiences for students is life changing, yet often funding constraints restrict a program’s ability to execute. Further, with one-quarter of the US population thinking the sun revolves around Earth (2014 NSF survey), we do not want to turn away anyone who has an interest in science and the ability to participate in this valuable and likely once-in-a-lifetime educational experience.
We have done an amazing amount of work to bring this project to this point with limited resources, but…
– List of Teams
– The Eclipse Ballooning Project In the Media
Donate $100+ and get a USPS Thermal Eclipse Stamp that has flown to near space on one of the student balloons!
Knox County Eclipse Space Balloon Project