September 30: At Pinecrest Academy, a K-12 school in Cumming, GA, students talked with Mike Fincke during an ARISS radio contact. He answered 20 questions with an audience of 550 at the school watching the students. The public could choose from two livestreams (one link is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov7yPw0PzUg) and these generated 800 viewers, which increased to over 1,268 within two days. Forsyth County News ran blurbs about the contact on Facebook, X, and Instagram. To prepare for this day, faculty had inspired youth to engage in initiatives tied to space, exploration, and communication, such as discovering different NASA employees’ careers, bioastronautics, the solar system, and sound waves. AP English students created a weekly ARISS newsletter, young students visited a planetarium, and the school established an amateur radio club.

Images: students starting to line up for the ARISS contact, the big crowd

October 1: Students at Instituto Politecnico Nacional-Planetario Luis Enrique Erro in Mexico City, Mexico took part in an ARISS contact with Zena Cardman. She answered 17 student questions. Reported attendance size totaled about 250. The public viewed a livestream and within two days’ time, captured 1,500 views. The host facility, one of the largest public educational institutions in Mexico, offers highly qualified professionals who promote scientific and technological advancement and provide programs with a strong focus on research and innovation in STEM for the high school, undergraduate, and postgraduate levels.

Image: Mexico City youth and adults enthralled with the ARISS contact

October 1: Students in the village of Pobeda in the Aznakaevsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan in Russia engaged in an ARISS radio contact. Sergey Ryzhikov supported it. Youth had engaged in some of the About Gagarin from Space lessons. Russia’s Mission Control Center-Moscow scheduled the radio contact.

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