Blue Dot Sponsored Film Wins Award at the La Jolla Film Festival
With the support of BDE, a group of female students came together to create and submit a film to the La Jolla Film Festival. Please check out their award winning work here:
View ArticleStudents Capture Amazing GoPro Footage of Earth from a High Altitude Balloon!
A small group of students at High Tech High School in San Diego successfully recovered a high altitude balloon that they launched to an estimated altitude of 90,000 -110,000 ft. The balloon carried a...
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Anza Borrego Trip 1/5/17
Taken by a Canon 70d and edited in lightroom. Photo Credit to Pablo Robin. Taken by a Canon 70d. Photo Credit to Marco Giacomangeli. Taken by a Canon 70d. Photo Credit to Marco Giacomangeli....
View ArticleStudent Inspired Space Science Program
Image Credit: Brianne Nguyen c/o 2014. One of our first star images of Orion and the iconic nebula. In the fall of 2013, I was looking to develop projects in the fields of space and planetary science....
View ArticleBalloon Beginnings – The First Weather Balloon Launches in 2014
The video below shows the first two attempts to send a weather balloon by students at High Tech High School in San Diego, California. The project’s inspiration came from Brian Delgado, a freshman...
View ArticleA Piece of Space on My Computer Screen – Student Captured Image – By Lucy...
Triangulum Galaxy, or M33, is in the “Local” group of galaxies. This group includes the Milky Way and Andromeda. Triangulum Galaxy is the smallest of the group, but it is 50,000 light-years across...
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Blue Dot Education purchases Celestron RASA 11 inch Astrograph Telescope
Blue Dot Education has recently acquired a Celestron 11 in. RASA Schmidt Astrograph Telescope. The telescope has an aperture of 11 in., and the focal length of f/2.2. This telescope possesses a lot of...
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Celestron 11″ RASA First Images
When the new Celestron boxes arrived at HTH we were filled with excitement. Almost immediately a group of students arranged an outing to SDAA’s Tierra Del Sol site in Eastern San Diego to try out our...
View ArticleThe Rocket Project
As Blue Dot Education was starting, Brian Delgado’s Weather Balloon Experiments were redefining what adventurous projects with students could look like. I had been teaching Chemistry at High Tech High...
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Learning to Fly
In the spring of spring of 2016, I had a project in mind that I thought would be a huge shift in the world of project based learning. I had the chance to teach seniors that semester, and I’d always...
View ArticleThe story behind our logo
Our logo is a rendition of the famous Pale Blue Dot image of Earth captured by the Voyager 1 probe as it reached a distance of nearly 6 billion kilometers. In the original image, the three colored...
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