{"id":449,"date":"2015-12-18T10:54:51","date_gmt":"2015-12-18T15:54:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=449"},"modified":"2016-01-08T13:43:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-08T18:43:42","slug":"painting-with-a-purpose-middle-and-high-school-students-assist-with-laser-prep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/painting-with-a-purpose-middle-and-high-school-students-assist-with-laser-prep\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting with a Purpose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-461 img-responsive alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_8663-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8663\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_8663-168x300.jpg 168w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_8663.jpg 575w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/>Middle and high school students from across South Florida have spend weeks learning about CARTHE, our previous research efforts, and our plans for LASER (<a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/laser\/\">LAgrangian Submesoscale ExpeRiment<\/a>), and volunteered to help with the preparations for this enormous experiment.<\/p>\n<p>Almost 1000\u00a0students from 10 schools are painting drift cards (aka biodegradable, bamboo dinner plates). \u00a0CARTHE plans to release 10,000 drift cards into the Gulf of Mexico and track them with the aerostat (aerial photography system discussed in <a title=\"Reaching for the STARSS\" href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/?p=376\">a\u00a0previous post<\/a>). \u00a0In order to track an individual plate\/card, it helps if it is uniquely painted in bright colors.<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-462\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4838-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_4838\" width=\"400\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4838-300x200.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/IMG_4838-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By the end of December 2015, local students will have painted approximately 3000 drift cards for the largest oceanography experiment of its kind &#8211; LASER! \u00a0Thank you so much to all of the students and teachers who helped CARTHE prepare the equipment for this exciting effort.<\/p>\n<table width=\"309\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"309\">Barbara Goleman Senior High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Beachside Montessori Village<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Forest Glenn Middle School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Jose De Diego Middle School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>LaSalle High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>MAST Academy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>New River Middle School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Northeast High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>South Broward High School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>West Miami Middle School<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/S-Broward-girls-2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-466 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/S-Broward-girls-2-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"S Broward girls 2\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/S-Broward-girls-2-1024x576.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/S-Broward-girls-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8822.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-468 img-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8822-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8822\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8822-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8822-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8821.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"img-responsive aligncenter wp-image-470 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8821-e1452182685197-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_8821\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8821-e1452182685197-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/IMG_8821-e1452182685197-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Middle and high school students from across South Florida have spend weeks learning about CARTHE, our previous research efforts, and our plans for LASER (LAgrangian Submesoscale ExpeRiment), and volunteered to <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/painting-with-a-purpose-middle-and-high-school-students-assist-with-laser-prep\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,38,32,22,33],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/carthe.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}