An International Space Station Expedition 18 ARISS school contact has been planned with participants at the Oregon City Schools, Fassett Middle School, Oregon, Ohio on 23 February. The event is scheduled to begin at approximately 1435 UTC.

The contact will be a direct between stations NA1SS and KB9UPS. The contact should be audible over most of eastern N. America. Interested parties are invited to listen in on the 145.80 MHz downlink. The participants are expected to conduct the conversation in English.

Fassett Middle School, located in Oregon, Ohio started with the first school year in the fall of 1960. It was named after Miss Josephine Fassett, who was an outstanding figure in guiding the Oregon school system from the days of the one-room schoolhouse through an expansion program which led to the existing superior educational facilities. The school started as a 7-9 building, then to a 7-8 building, and currently a 6-8 middle school. Currently there are 473 students at Oregon. Oregon has two middle schools that lead into its high school, Clay. The school is in the effective category, determined by the state and continually making more progress toward the excellent category. Some teachers teach solely their subject, and some teachers teach up to three preps.