St. Mary’s School in Sycamore acquired a weather station to assist elementary and junior high students with science and math curricula.

The private Catholic school purchased the station earlier this year and mounted it on the roof of the building at 222 Waterman St. The station has two remote devices. One connects to the fifth-grade classroom, and the other connects to the seventh- and eighth-grade classrooms.

The wireless devices receive and record all the weather data from the station on top of the building and store it in classroom computers, Principal Roseann Feldman said.

Students calculate real-life data from the weather station to study trends, said Brad Speiser, seventh- and eighth-grade math teacher .

The fifth grade also relays local weather to NASA.

NASA sends a weather satellite over the Sycamore area once a day, Feldman said. Students assist NASA by relaying cloud cover conditions from ground level that the satellite can measure from above.

St. Mary’s paid for the weather station with a $9,000 grant from Toyota last year. Only 35 schools nationwide received the grant.

Feldman said the school plans to purchase two more mobile weather stations in the next year to place in rural areas east and west of Sycamore.