CETA Professor Paul Slaboch recently took two trips to the University of Hartford Magnet School to distribute glasses to about 350 students and faculty to use for viewing the upcoming total eclipse. Joined by other members of the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project (NEBP), they taught the magnet school’s PreK, kindergarten, first grade, and fifth grade students about the eclipse, what to expect from it, and how to use their new glasses to safely view it.
Slaboch, along with his student Andrew Kresbach, also brought one of the balloons from their ballooning project, a parachute, and some of the payloads that they are going to be launching when they travel to Illinois for the eclipse next week. On April 4, a group of 13 students (representing seven different majors) and three faculty will be heading to Carbondale, Illinois, where they will launch the balloon and livestream the eclipse.