| ARISS: IIS Deambrosis-Natta, Sestri Levante, Genoa, Italy |
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Stations IK1XHI and IZ6BAJ in Italy will call NA1SS at approximately 08:23 UTC. The IIS Deambrosis-Natta school is located in Sestri Levante, near Genoa. It consists of 900 students and 140 teachers. The Deambrosis-Natta is a high school specializing in scientific and technological subjects. Students can choose among several courses: mechanical, electronics, electro-technological focusing on automation. It also specializes in telecommunications. The school is a member of the national networks "The radio at school" and "Radio transmission experiments for educational purposes". The Engineering Faculty of the University of L’Aquila was founded in 1964 and now offers 10 different undergraduate degree programs at the level of Bachelor of Science in Engineering, 12 graduate degree programs at the level of Master of Engineering, one single-stage degree program, and a number of advanced graduate courses leading to the degree of a PhD. In the field of Information Engineering there are specific degree programs in Electronics, Telecommunications, Automation and Computer Science. The faculty is located on the hill-top of Roio a few km from the city of L’Aquila. Presently there are 5000 students enrolled, who reach a high level of preparation through the coordinated action of 164 faculty professors. Students will ask as many of the following questions as time allows:
For everyone's information and future reference. When any ARISS event is supported through the IRLP "Discovery" Reflector 9010, audio is automatically streamed to the Internet. It is then available via the "Discovery" Reflectors companion web site www.discoveryreflector.ca . Once on its main page, select "Audio Library" (left sidebar). The prompt to join the audio stream is posted at the top of this page. More directly the URL is as follows: www.discoveryreflector.ca:8000/listen.pls Information about the next scheduled ARISS contact can be found at 'NextContact'. ARISS is an international educational outreach program partnering the participating space agencies, NASA, Russian Space Agency, ESA, CNES, JAXA, and CSA, with the AMSAT and IARU organizations from participating countries. ARISS offers an opportunity for students to experience the excitement of Amateur Radio by talking directly with crewmembers on-board the International Space Station. Teachers, parents and communities see, first hand, how Amateur Radio and crewmembers on ISS can energize youngsters' interest in science, technology, and learning. Further information on the ARISS program is available on the website http://www.rac.ca/ariss (graciously hosted by the Radio Amateurs of Canada). |

An International Space Station Expedition 16 ARISS contact has been planned with the IIS Deambrosis-Natta, Sestri Levante, Genoa, Italy and Faculty of Engineering, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy on Monday, October 29, 2007. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 08:23 UTC.