Fairhope, Alabama
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| New weather station at elementary school. |
FIRST IN BALDWIN COUNTY
A 'WeatherSTEM' weather monitoring station has been installed at the Fairhope East Elementary School on Bishop Road to assist students in learning about STEM: Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math. It is also equipped with a high resolution camera; conditions are monitored every minute and published on social media sites (click). Wind speed/direction, precipitation/rate of precipitation, and solar/uv radiation are some of the readings recorded.
The company was founded by Floridian Ed Mansouri and most stations are still in that state, but are rapidly spreading to other states in the region.
From web sources: "Based out of Florida, Weather STEM was founded by Edward Mansouri as a passion to find ways of innovating education through technology. Previously, Edward started another online learning management system called Ucompass Educator that has nearly three million users. WeatherSTEM was originally built in introduce live weather data to K-12 STEM curriculum. For those unfamiliar, STEM stands for Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math.
Today, Weather STEM provides a live alert notification system with safety alerts using data from their various weather stations posted around the country, many of which are in Florida. Of course, most of the weather stations are located at schools, thus further bringing interest to the students.
... Weather STEM makes their
installations fun for the students by providing customized weather
stations at each school, or location. They partner with Davis
Instruments and appear to use the Davis Vantage Pro2 exclusively for
their installations."
The stations cost about $5,500 each but sometimes fees are waived, according to the company.
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