Stratospheric Ballooning Team at the U of MN – Twin Cities
Since 2007 the MnSGC at the U of MN – Twin Cities has engaged students in building “near-space-craft” (AKA “payloads”) and using weather balloons to loft them into the stratosphere where the conditions (and the view!) are much like outer space. Student-built payloads carry cameras, microcontroller-logged sensor suites, gps systems, tracking radios, and more. Participants […]
Freshman Seminar on Airships at U of MN – Twin Cities
Freshmen students in AEM 1301: Lighter-Than-Air RC Vehicles built and flew multiple styles of RC blimps, including one rigid airship, during the fall of 2019. The class exhibited some of the vehicles they built in the Balas Atrium of Akerman Hall on Dec. 10. Photo Credits: CSE
Space Grant Midwest Region “Short Talks” public videocon on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2-3 p.m. CT
States from the Midwest Region of NASA’s Space Grant program will hold a public videocon on November 14 containing three back-to-back “Short Talks.” The three topics for this videocon are (a) Make to Innovate: Use of hands-on learning in STEM Education, (b) SmallSat Swarm Proximity Operations: Herding Cats Might be Easier!, and (c) Measuring Light […]
The MnSGC to host the 2019-2020 Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocket Competition on May 16-17, 2020
The MnSGC and Tripoli MN, a local high-power rocketry club, are hosting the 2019-2020 Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocket Competition in May of 2020. In this competition college student teams will design, build, and fly a high-power rocket to accomplish a “photography/altitude” challenge in which they will try to minimize roll during ascent to get […]
Michele Brekke: Meet and Greet
Michele A. Brekke will be doing a meet & greet in the Gary Balas Atrium on October 4, 2019 from 10 to 11:45 a.m. She will be sharing her journey through her career and taking questions afterwards. Brekke is an AEM alumna (B.S. ’75, M.S. ’77) and now a flight manager for the Boeing CST-100 Starliner operational […]