Hey Guys!
My mom called me to tell me about a couple of students from MIT, and I thought I'd share it with you! These two undergrads, Justin Lee and Oliver Yeh created a near-space launch by building a weather ballon, for $150! They bought a camera from eBay, a BoostMobile phone with GPS from radio shack, a beer cooler and a balloon from the grocery store and launched it 92,000 feet into the atmosphere in Boston! They programmed the camera to take pictures every 5 seconds, and the weather balloon touched down in Worcester about 5 hours later. What they're excited about doing is streamlining the process to make the project something that middle- and high-schoolers can do in the classroom. One of the coolest thing about this is that these kids aren't even studying rocket science...one is a computer science major and the other is a mechanical engineer!
I think this would make a really cool podcast if anyone is looking for a neat idea.
Here is their website!
Check out their interview with CNN here:
~Sara :o)
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