The INSPIRE project will continue, rallying around opportunities for observations of special events, but with a base of activity to make U.S.-wide observations of natural and manmade phenomena.
Additional internet resources will be added to the INSPIRE website, including more streams of INSPIRE data.
The INSPIRE Journal will continue to be an important part of these activities. It will be issued in November and April of each year with INSPIRE news, activities and results. In addition, more high school physics classes will be recruited to participate in INSPIRE, to learn about space and NASA through the study of the ionosphere, lightning, electronics, mechanical and electrical construction techniques, data gathering procedures, and data analysis. Spring and fall observing campaigns will be organized to observe natural and manmade phenomena.
INSPIRE plans to hold Workshops each year. The Workshops will be primarily organized by local teachers and volunteers and will offer an introduction to INSPIRE and its projects, to kit building (sometimes the students and teachers do not have the expertise to build the kits without help), to site location and data gathering procedures. A Workshop will usually be held on a Saturday, with INSPIRE participants both teachers and students attending.
After short talks by a national INSPIRE organizer, introducing INSPIRE, describing previous and planned projects (such as INTMINS); the local organizer, and a talk by a representative of the local power company to help select interference free sites, the Workshop would typically break up into small groups to discuss particular aspects of INSPIRE, and to build kits. A national INSPIRE representative will attend each Workshop as a resource person and to lend continuity to the Workshop.