Danbury students have sent weather balloons into the skies that made it all the way to the Rhode Island border.  100 students from the Westside Middle School Academy STEM program launched two weather balloons yesterday.  The Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math students designed and built two payloads for each of the balloons with sensors that took atmospheric pressure and temperature readings recorded on computer chips. 

School officials say the balloons were tracked somewhere along the Connecticut border with Rhode Island, making it further than last year when the balloons became stuck in a tree in Seymour.  The balloons were in flight for about two and a half hours.

The launch was done from the field behind Danbury High School.