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Columbus Elementary students retrieving weather balloon instrumentation

Geography Outreach Soars to New Heights

Last Tuesday Mark Hildebrandt and Randall Pearson of the SIUE Department of Geography teamed up with Columbus Elementary and Edwardsville High School for a synchronized weather balloon launch.  Students and faculty built, launched, chased, and retrieved balloons carrying global positioning and weather monitoring instrumentation for an over the top science experiment.

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