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the shores of lake erie are not your

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typical school laboratory and that's

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exactly the point of a unique

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educational effort initiated by nasa's

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lewis research center in cleveland ohio

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called the student remote sensing

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project it's designed to excite young

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people like these from saint edward high

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school about scientific research

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the measurements they're taking today

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were part of 18 environmental impact

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studies they've designed themselves

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shoreline erosion and the flow of

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effluent from wastewater treatment

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plants are two of the topics under

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consideration

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as with any research proposal the

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students had to prepare an abstract

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determine the equipment they needed to

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carry out their studies

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and describe the specific research

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procedures they plan to use

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they'll also have to prepare reports

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summarizing their conclusions

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while these student researchers collect

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ground truth data one of their teachers

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brother david martin works with nasa

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pilot bill ricky to produce aerial

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photographs used in the studies

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their aircraft is an old t-34 navy

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trainer salvaged from a storage facility

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in arizona and given new life by the

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lewis aircraft maintenance team before

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leaving the hangar two cameras one a

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standard model and the other an infrared

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to bill rickey who spent a lot of time

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in advanced fighter jets the t-34 is

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hardly a high-performance aircraft

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but for brother martin the experience is

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ricky positions the aircraft and martin

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triggers the cameras which look through

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by comparing what they see in the

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imagery with measurements gathered in

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the field students employ the same

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scientific principles used by

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professional researchers and they had

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nothing to begin with no cookbook recipe

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no guidance no hints they had to design

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it for themselves

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i want them to take the film

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see what they can do with it maybe it

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will answer the question they raised

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maybe it won't but that's the beauty of

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science and in that sense it'll be a

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real learning experience it's not

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something that was given to them they

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can see now that they could put

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something together which is actually

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their own

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in a sense they are creating something

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new for each and every one of these

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experiments we did

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the goal is to involve more students and

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schools around the country and to use

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the t34 to do other types of classroom

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related studies including newton's laws

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of motion

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and microgravity research

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nasa's student remote sensing project