High school students will build a hand-held receiver. They can build it from scratch (it is open source after all!) or they can buy a kit being hosted by our partners at Crowd Supply. It should only take a few hours to build from a kit. It's a WiFi receiver, a small computer with a WiFi transmitter, an helical antenna, and some radio chips from our friends at Qorvo. And no, you don't actually need a hard hat to build the ground station. But you know: safety first.

Kids tell us where they are in Oregon. We tell them when the satellite is going to pass overhead. They choose a time, and we've got a date. With space. Which, frankly, is terrible. You don't want a date with space. Trust us.