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Winter Term Plans

A project log for Amateur Rockets

Progress of Elon University's Rocket Team on making a rocket fly to 10,000 ft.

keeley-collinsKeeley Collins 01/05/2017 at 01:090 Comments

It's Winter Term here at Elon, which is the awkward period between Spring and Fall semesters where there isn't a whole lot going on at the university. The rocket team just met today to discuss what we would be doing over the term. We decided that we need to get our level 2 certification by January 22, and we also decided that our best (and cheapest) option was to go ahead and make our full scale rocket and use it to get the level 2 certification. We ordered the parts today and agreed to meet every day after the parts arrived to work on the rocket until it was finished.

Other than that, we applied to the kickbox project here at the university (again) to get some more funds. We're pretty sure we're going to be accepted again because apparently only 13 people applied with projects (one of Liam's bosses decides who gets accepted, so he told us all the details), and last year they accepted 13 projects, so yeah. Plus, the guys in charge of the kickbox thing like rockets because who doesn't? Julia is in charge of the kickbox this time and if she creates a hackaday page for it I'll link to it.

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