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Early 2019 Brainstorming for project ideas
3/8
Team responsibilities, leaders, and assignments discussed as well as priorities for future weeks
3/22 Meeting with technology director to present budget
4/5 Team leader meeting to discuss what else needs to be figured out
4/12
Rehearsal for final budget presentation to technology director
5/22 Catch-up meeting so everyone knows what other teams have been doing
5/29
Final budget presentation to technology director
6/6 Team leader meeting to discuss summer plans
6/19 Start building!
7/8 Plans for paracord attachment and sections
7/15 Parachute tests
7/25 Code for altitude sensor, how balloon and parachute connect to payload and each other
8/2 Drawing outlines for cuts, writing information for website
8/9 Starting biology protocol, some cuts in payload
8/13 Yeast protocol, circuit diagram
8/20 Finished yeast protocol, getting ready to solder, windows cut
8/25 Attaching parachute, securing paracord, soldering
9/2 Edges for acrylic windows, soldering completed
9/5 School newspaper interviews team leaders
9/22 Second round of parachute testing
9/23 Bio team practices plating yeast and plans preliminary tests
9/28 An article about the project is published in the school newspaper
10/6 Windows glued in, counted seeds
10/12 Three people pass the ham radio technician test
10/13 Knots, cameras, painting the payload
10/19 Google Hangouts planning meeting
10/27 Calculating flight information, pressure
11/3 More flight information, securing inside components
11/6 Banner painting
11/13 Group-wide update meeting
11/14 Shake test
11/20 Balloon tying practice
2/15/2020 Launch!
2/15/2020 Launch!
We had a few meetings between 11/20 and launch day to finish installing sensors and rehearse day-of procedures.
07/01/2021 publication!
07/01/2021 publication!
Our paper was published in the Journal for Student Research, High School Edition. Read it at https://jsr.org/hs/index.php/path/article/view/1507
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