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 …
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 …
A Piece of Space on My Computer Screen – Student Captured Image – By Lucy Conover
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 …
Balloon 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 …
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 …
The 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. …