The station is open

Pelion Science is live. This log is where the station reports what it is measuring, what students are learning from it, and how to get involved.

What the station is

The Pelion Field Station is an environmental monitoring project run by students at City Honors School. It starts with the STARS Science classes and is open to any class or club that wants to collect real data.

The station is not one box on a pole. It is a set of sites:

• The school grounds. Weather, air, and soil around the building.
• The Pelion Outdoor Classroom. The station's outdoor home base.
• Indoor sites. Classrooms and hallways, where the air students breathe all day can be compared with the air outside.

What is on hand

The station opens with a PocketLab Air, a set of ESP32 sensor boards built in house, and water test kits and probes.

More is coming. The station has received a grant from YLACES (Youth Learning as Citizen Environmental Scientists) for three PurpleAir air quality monitors, each with a solar power kit. PurpleAir monitors count fine particles in the air (PM2.5), the kind that come from traffic, wood smoke, and wildfire smoke. With solar power they can run outdoors without an outlet, so students can place them where the questions are instead of where the plugs are.

Status

Commissioning, fall 2026. Instruments come online one at a time. Each one gets checked before its numbers count. Live readings and the student data log will appear on the Field Station section of this site as that happens.

How to get involved

Students in STARS Science are already station operators. Other classes and clubs at City Honors are welcome to take readings, propose a question, or adopt a site. Email Mr. Sajdak to start.