An International Space Station Expedition 17 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants from the Town of Berkeley Heights, NJ, Summer Playground Camp on 13 August. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 16:08 UTC.

The contact will be a direct between stations NA1SS and N2XJ. The contact should be audible over Eastern North America. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

The town of Berkley Heights, New Jersey sponsors an annual summer playground camp at one of the town's parks. Each year the New Providence Amateur Radio Club sets up its station, N2XJ, at the camp as an educational opportunity for the children attending the camp. The club lets any interested camper get on the air to make both local and long-distance contacts. The camp is open to all grades of school students, but most campers are in grades from kindergarten to sixth grade.