Learning space weather through the Astro Pi Project: the experience at a Secondary School

The European Astro Pi Challenge is a school project run by ESA. Through this Project, the AGUERE team, made up of Secondary School students and their teachers, developed a python code. The team run this code in one of the two Astro Pi computers to get from the sensors onboard the International Space Station (ISS) the temperature, the acceleration and the magnetic fields for three hours on April 4th, 2019 from 16:08:44 until 19:06:24. When plotting the data, the team discovered some anomalies that they were not able to understand by themselves. Then, they searched for the help of an expert in space weather. The final result of this experience was double: on one side we discovered a space weather disturbance observed by the ISS; on the other, the students learnt that doing research can be thrilling.