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Particle sampling in the stratosphere | Alex Baker and Chris Rose | TEDxYouth@Manchester

618 views · Published 4 December 2014 · 13:45 · Indexed 21 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2014 · Nonprofits & Activism

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This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. TEDxYouth@Manchester is proud to present its 6th TEDxYouth conference on Wednesday 5th November 2014. Our event is presented to 450 post 16 students from The Fallibroome Academy in Macclesfield, UK and to over 150 invited students from local schools. We live stream our conference around the world and our theme is ‘Reset’ and the exciting programme includes brilliant speakers, and stunning student performances.

Dr Alex Baker and Chris Rose are the co-founders and directors of sentintospace.com, a website which enables anybody to take on their own near space project. After gaining global media attention for their own near space exploits they turned there attention to developing kits and technology to make the process easier and more reliable. They have had recent international press attention for their involvement in near space particle sampling experiments, which yielded some very unexpected results.

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