The Space Grant Midwest Rocketry “Return to Flight: Fleet Challege” concludes on May 21 and 22
High-power rocketry teams from 11 colleges and universities will gather in Wyoming, Minnesota, on Saturday, May 21, 2022, to deliver oral presentations to a panel of judges. On Sunday, May 22, 2022, the teams will fly their “fleets” of rockets at the Tripoli Minnesota Rocketry Club launch field near North Branch, Minnesota (if weather and […]
Winners announced for GLEAM Lunar Robotics Intercollegiate Challenge
The Minnesota Space Grant Consortium is pleased to announce the top three teams for the 2021-2022 “GLEAM Lunar Robotics” intercollegiate challenge. First Place Winona State University Lunar Scouts Second Place Concordia College Moorhead Lunar Robotics Team Third Place Minnesota State University Moorhead The Land Dragons Congratulations to all the teams that participated in this challenge! […]
“Physics Lessons From Biology” – Lecture at Augsburg University
The Future is Alive! “Physics Lessons From Biology” Jennifer Ross, Ph.D. Physics Department Chair Syracuse University Zoom Recording from Tuesday, April 12, 2022 Augsburg University Imagine a world where potholes in roads seal themselves like cuts in your skin, your body reports directly to your doctor on pain and medication, and we can explore and […]
In-person exhibits included at the 2022 MnSGC Student Symposium
On Saturday, March 26, 2022, the Minnesota Space Grant Consortium held a statewide Student Symposium at the University of Minnesota Twin Cities. In-person attendees gathered at Akerman Hall. Sessions were also streamed on Zoom for remote attendees. This year’s symposium marked the inclusion of in person presentations and exhibits. The first symposium, in March 2021, […]
NASA’s Minnesota Space Grant Consortium Student Symposium on March 26, 2022
Saturday, March 26, 2022 9 a.m. – 4:45 p.m. (in person in Akerman Hall (map) or on-line on Zoom (links in abstract booklet)) The nearest parking (though not the least expensive) is in the Washington Avenue Parking Ramp. NASA’s Minnesota Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC) presented a free, day-long student symposium for students to share about […]
High-Power Rockets are Flying!
High-Power Rocketry (remote) Lessons are now finished, and rockets are flying! Five of the rockets built during this fall’s Minnesota Space Grant Consortium High-Power Rocketry (remote) Lessons program were taken to the Tripoli, Minnesota, launch site near North Branch and launched on December 4, 2021. The remaining rockets will be flown in the spring. To […]
Macalaster College First Year Rocketry Class Blasts Off!
For students enrolled in Professor Tonnis ter Veldhuis course at Macalaster College it literally is all about rocket science. In this physics course the lab is learning how to design, simulate, build, and launch a high-power rocket. The course covers standard material such as Newton’s laws, conservation of energy, linear momentum, angular momentum, oscillations, […]
The 2021-2022 Space Grant (in-the-) Midwest High-Power Rocketry Competition – the “Return to Flight: Fleet Challenge” – has now begun
The Minnesota Space Grant Consortium and Tripoli MN, a local high-power rocketry club, has now 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 […]