In Peques and Más a few months ago we conducted an interview with the teacher José María Muñoz Vidal responsible for Limasat project. Then we talked to him because they had done, with great success, the project in its first edition. Recently José María has contacted us to explain that they have just completed the second edition of Limasat. And the goal of this mission is twofold, on the one hand to repeat what was done well in the first mission and achieve some new challenge by improving what was not done well and also, disseminating what is done today in a public institute of Cordoba. Is about support technology education in Spain.
The project images, the video below and the detailed explanations can be read in the project blog. This time the flight started at 12:00 noon and ended at 13:38, almost two hours later. The capsule this time rose to 22,000 meters high and reached temperatures of -60º C. In the blog you can also see graphs and details of this ambitious project in which Students learn science in a very practical way by consolidating concepts that they will never forget. In addition, José María's work is fantastic because the documentation of the project is very extensive and among the curiosities that can be seen from the capsule that ascends, it is the province of Malaga, the Autonomous Community of Andalusia from the stratosphere and to the Strait of Gibraltar .
José María Muñoz Vidal is a professor at the I.E.S. Santa Rosa de Lima in Córdoba and responsible for the Limasat Project. He began his project at the beginning of the 2011-2012 academic year as a technology teacher's challenge to his students to see how it could be verified that the Earth is round. Already takes two Limasat releases and I hope there are many more.
I remember that the Limasat blog explains, quite correctly, the steps to make a project like this. The Limasat team is made up of students from seven different centers in Córdoba capital and is possible thanks to the financing of the deepening knowledge expansion program.
In Peques and More | José María Muñoz Vidal of the Limasat Project: "We learned that goals can be achieved with shared effort and enthusiasm" More information | Limasat project
