Project High Flight

TOMORROW! Project High Flight will be having its annual balloon launch! There will be FREE food and fun from 2-4 pm behind Benton! Miami University

THIS THURSDAY! Come out to Project High Flight's balloon launch behind Benton! Take a study break and come enjoy free food, fun, and space from 2-4pm! Miami University

Come out and support Project High Flight this Thursday May 7th at our annual balloon launch! There will be free food, fun, and space! The event is from 2-4 pm and is located behind Benton Hall! Miami University

Operations-High Powered Rockets Team:

On April 9th our team successfully cut slits into our rocket and fit our wings into the slits. We did this so that our wings would be sturdy for flight. We also started gluing the wings so that they would stay in place throughout the entire launch. In the later weeks we plan on finishing gluing the wings to the rocket as well as figuring out what type of motor we will use for our rocket launch.

Design Consulting Team:

We are currently designing and figuring out how to get the case to stand. Have a meeting Tuesday with the original designer who will be able to help us with all of our questions!

Balloon Group:

This week we picked the new shape of the enclosure. We had a team discussion to weigh the pros and cons of each idea and settled on the one we thought was best. This week the teams were asked to look into exact dimensions for the enclosure and the rudder. As well as materials that could be used.

Balloon Group:

On March 16th we determined how to stabilize the payload this week. All the students were asked to bring in possible solutions.We shared ideas, talked through them all as a group, and then voted on what we think would work best. Now that we have a rough idea of the path we are going down, we are able to specialize in creating more detailed designs and figuring out what materials to use to build these stabilization devices.

This week we had our meeting with mark and talked about a lot. He pretty much gave us free range to do whatever we wanted! So as of now we are looking up prices, supplies and general designs that would work for the case. Hopefully we will be able to start some CAD next week!

On March 12, our rocket team successfully secured the inner compartments with L brackets. This ensured that if anything were to get damaged on the inside then the damaged component would be able to replaced easily. The L brackets were secured using screws and after tests we found that this method will be strong enough to secure everything safely. Next project is to work on the motor since the majority of the rocket is built.

IT Systems-Website

This week we reached out to other teams in High Flight for help with content organization. We met with Aryelle from the Divergent Thinking team and Niki Fisher to brainstorm content organization. We also set up a meeting with Shelli for next week to get approval.

Our team completed:
- 2 hr Cascade training and gained access to the site
- Made a detailed project plan
- Brainstormed and assigned roles to team members
- Created high-level content organization plan

On February 26th, we managed to drill holes in to the rocket body for the L brackets. Since the holes were already aligned from the previous meeting we knew exactly where we wanted to put the brackets. Drilling the holes was fairly quick and screwing the L brackets into place was an easy task.