By JOVE! BFUHS, teacher win technology grant

Bellows Falls Union High School physics teacher Harvey Nystrom has been wanting to have his students receive signals from outer space for a few years now. The high school science teacher heard about a program started by NASA that allows schools to pick up radio signals from Jupiter and from the sun, but at a time when school boards are slashing budgets, Nystrom has not been able to find the $5,000 needed to build the antenna, purchase the computer software and attend the training to open the cosmos up to his students. Last year, Nystrom heard about a special grant program started by the Vermont Department of Education using federal stimulus money.

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