The 2021-2022 Space Grant (in-the-) Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition will be the “Return to Flight: Fleet Challenge” – sign up now!
The Minnesota Space Grant Consortium and Tripoli MN, a local high-power rocketry club, have just announced rules for the 2021-2022 Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition. This intercollegiate competition, entitled the “Return to Flight: Fleet Challenge,” should appeal to teams of both new and experienced high-power rocketry students, allowing them to demonstrate their design/build/fly “chops” […]
Minnesota Space Grant Exhibit at STEM Day at the State Fair Featured on Channel 45 TV News
Channel 45 (ABC) featured Panos Delton, a University of Minnesota senior, and stratospheric ballooning hardware at the Minnesota Space Grant Consortium booth at the Minnesota State Fair. The MnSGC regularly has a day-long exhibit on STEM Day on the first day of the Minnesota State Fair. Typically the exhibit includes student-built aerospace hardware, such as […]
Minnesota Space Grant offers stratospheric ballooning workshop for GO4ST8 high school physics teachers
James Flaten and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities ballooning team, assisted by Erick Agrimson and the St. Catherine University ballooning team, offered a learn-to-do-stratospheric-ballooning workshop for high school physics teachers from GO4ST8. The teachers constructed two payloads containing multiple cameras, stand-alone sensors, and microcontroller-logged sensors suites, then helped launch them on a weather balloon on […]
Minnesota Space Grant announces “GLEAM Lunar Robotics” Intercollegiate Challenge for 2021-2022. (Sign-ups are now closed.) Kick-off at U of MN – Twin Cities on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021.
NASA’s Minnesota Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC) is pleased to announce the “MnSGC 2021-2022 GLEAM Lunar Robotics Intercollegiate Challenge.” In this challenge, which will run from October 2021 through March 2022, teams of students will develop small electronic sensor suites which will be carried by miniature radio-controlled surface vehicles to explore an unknown, totally-dark environment. Think […]
Free Robotics Workshop for Teachers Offered
Concordia College Graduate and Continuing Studies is offering a free robotics workshop consisting of a 100% virtual NASA-in-the-Classroom professional development activity. The workshop is open to all Minnesota K-12 educators (and, space permitting, education majors). Participants will receive a free Sphero robot and join their class as they learn how to integrate coding into their […]
Quadcopter Challenge Winners Announded
Despite pandemic-related challenges, teams from eight colleges and universities and one high school were able to complete the 2020-2021 Minnesota Space Grant Consortium Exploration-Flying Quadcopter Challenge. Congratulations to all! Judges ranked these teams as the top three: First Place: Minnesota State University Moorhead Second Place: Century College Third Place: Hill-Murray High School Here is a […]
MN Space Grant Student Symposium on March 27, 2021
The Minnesota Space Grant Consortium hosted a statewide Student Symposium on Saturday, March 27, 2021 – see link to “abstract booklet” (including recorded video links) posted below. This day-long virtual event included talks from 24 individual students and student teams who have been working on MnSGC-sponsored projects during the past year. There were also talks […]
Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars
On Feb. 18, 2021, NASA’s Perseverance Rover landed in the Jezero Crater on Mars. The car-sized rover is set to have a mission duration of at least one Mars year, which is about 687 Earth days. Perseverance is tasked with seeking out signs of ancient life and collecting rock and soil samples for possible return […]
Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition Cancelled for 2020-2021 Academic Year
Due to ongoing COVID-19 restrictions and uncertainties in Minnesota (and around the country), the Space Grant Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition for the 2020-2021 school year needed to be cancelled. We are optimistic that by late summer 2021 we will be able to propose a new competition for the 2021-2022 academic year. Stay tuned!
NASA’s Artemis Team Returning to the Moon
NASA recently created the Artemis Team, which is a group astronauts from diverse backgrounds that are planning to walk on the Moon in 2024. This mission will involve the first ever woman to walk on the lunar surface and will be focused around scientific objectives. Furthermore, this mission will prepare NASA for their next large […]