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Shimek Students Launch Weather Balloons, April 25, 2014
Ted Neal, Clinical Instructor, Science Education and Crystal Rodger, a U of Iowa sophmpore inflate and tie off a weather balloon at the School of The Wild’s Bluestem Shelter at Macbride Nature Recreation Area on Friday, April 25, 2014. 13 elementary education methods students worked with UI graduate Kami Skay’s Shimek Elementary fifth graders earlier this week to design and build helium weather balloons that carried cameras high into the sky to measure the curvature of the earth.(Justin Torner/Freelance for the Gazette)
Photo ID: 0426_NEW_WeatherBalloon.Gazette.JustinTornerPhoto-3
Photo size: 5.8 Mpixels (16.7 MB uncompressed) - 1946x3000 pixels (6.5x10 in / 16.5x25.4 cm at 300 ppi)