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Show Utah School Districts Involved With Satellite Seven Utah sites have been selected to participate partici-pate in an experiment involving for the first time in man's history a spaceborne satellite in direct educational application. appli-cation. Superintendent Walter D. Talbot has announced. an-nounced. The seven Utah communities com-munities are Heber, Ka--i nab, Enterprise, Morgan, Panguitch, and Hyrum. Dr. Talbot pointed out that final approval of the sites is contingent upon the signing of contracts between school board officials of-ficials in the communities communi-ties and representatives of the Educational Technology Tech-nology Demonstration. The ETD, funded mainly main-ly by the U.S. Department Depart-ment of Health, Education, Educa-tion, and Welfare, will utilize a satellite to be launched next spring by the National Aeronautics i and Space Administra- tion. The project is being coordinated by the Federation Fed-eration of Rocky Mountain Moun-tain States, of which Governor Gov-ernor Calvin L. Ramp-i Ramp-i ton is a director. Televised programs beamed through the satellite will be devoted ' to career education aimed aim-ed primarily at junior high school students. The programming, to cover the 1974-75 school year, will be broadcast into 56 rural sites in eight Rocky Mountain states. Besides Utah, the participating states are Idaho, Arizona, Arizo-na, Nevada, New Mexico, Mexi-co, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado. The spacecraft, the , ATS-F, will be the world's largest and most powerful communications communica-tions satellite. Specially designed receiving equipment to be installed at each selected site wiU cost less than $3,000, a revolutionary breakthrough break-through in the cost of such communications receiving re-ceiving equipment. The demonstration will examine the effectiveness effective-ness of a satellite-based telecommunications system sys-tem in rural isolated schools. y JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO |