NASA Conference

This week was a pretty mellow week in regard to my semester project.  Our project is complete and we presented our data last weekend at U of A.  You guys will see a version of our powerpoint on May 2nd, or whenever we are presenting out data to the S-STEM group.  From here on out is just going to be ironing out the research paper associated with this class.  There has but a lot of study on this topic, but to my dismay there have not been many articles written on this topic.  I am hoping to find a holy grail of sorts that will lend me all of the supporting information required to complete this paper.

After our presentation last weekend our mentor professors told us that not only were we the rowdiest group they have ever had, but we were also the best.  This made me feel good about my future, that I will not have to sell out and "grow up" to be around a bunch of conservative engineers.  I have always been an individual and plan on continuing that trend.  It is good to know that I can kick some serious butt at something and not be frowned upon for being a goofball to loosen up the group dynamic!

Below is a 60 sec edited video of the balloon's launch!

Symposium Time!!!

Hey Everybody,

After our successful balloon launch a couple weeks ago, we had to hurry and put together a powerpoint and data analysis for the National Space Grant Symposium at U of A this Saturday.  It seems like this entire semester it has just been one thing after another.  I feel like I am never caught up.  To make matters more complicated, I just found out that a rough draft for our research papers are due tonight!  Good thing it is just a rough draft, and all of my data analysis/questions/abstract has already been completed for the purpose of my own project.  To give you guys a an idea of what my data looks like, I have some VERY beautiful excel graphs that show our data analysis.  Let me know if you have any questions.

Great Success!

Last Saturday my group launched our payload into near-space.  Everything on our end went according to plan, but the guys at ANSR (Arizona Near Space Research), forgot to bring the parachute for our balloon, so launch was delayed by about 4 hours.  Good thing there was a bowling alley in the middle of the desert at some casino!!!  All of our sensors worked perfectly and now its time to analyze everyone of our 11,106 data points.  This analysis will be presented the weekend of Apr. 12th at UofA.  Our payload took a ton of supercool pictures...let the slideshow begin!!!