South Jersey STEM Club reaches new heights with weather balloon launch (New Jersey)

For four hours or so, the weather around Seabrook was news heard, if not around the world, at least as far as Australia and Europe.

You had to listen — hard, with special software on your radio receiver — because the meteorological data was being picked up and broadcast from four high-altitude balloons carrying electronic equipment local middle school students made in their STEM Club.

And for those not at Woodruff Middle School or listening in to the broadcasts, the weather Nov. 19 wasn’t favorable to using helium balloons. But the launch was still a success.

STEM Club advisor Angela Metzger, a seventh-grade math teacher at Woodruff, said the long-range goal is to one day send balloons that will circumnavigate the Earth.

“And it does happen,” Metzger said. “It just hasn’t happened for us.”

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