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  • AIAA presentation by Siddhi, Wex Foundation

    Siddhi Raut and her team at LCATS, Wex Foundation, created this amazing video slide show for the AIAA presentation a couple of weeks ago. They have summarized their research and experiences really well, making the best of being in the pandemic. We are super impressed with how Siddhi delivers the presentation with her engaging personality.

  • CanSat High Altitude Balloon Launch – USC: Project Payload

  • My dream is to work for NASA – Stockton 2019

    Not only were these students totally engaged, but they were also eager to mentor and share with younger students what they have learned. The data and programming team kept the realtime telemetry data being collected. The payload design team secured all the internal experiment and positioned all the electronics. The weather team kept the rest…

  • Learn how to stream real-time data with Excel from Steve

  • CanSat and ExoLab were part of the NASA presentation at Clyde Arbuckle Elementary in San Jose

    Big thanks to Andres Martinez for inviting us, magnitude.io/, to be part of the “An Evening with NASA” at Clyde Arbuckle Elementary in San Jose. We had a great time introducing our CanSat and ExoLab to some younger students. We got the students reading live data and doing some math, figuring out how high the balloon is by…

  • A Day of Data Science at Wilhelmina Henry Elementary in Stockton

    Analyzing the data captured by the CanSat during the balloon launch is the most important part of the lesson and activity. Today we spent some time with the students at Wilhelmina Henry Elementary School in Stockton looking at the data and how a lot of answers could be in the raw videos. Creating charts to…

  • CanSat PD at Sierra High in Manteca Unified School District

    Steve Unterholzner, the Science teacher of Sierra High School, decided to run an experiment to see at what altitude the alcohol will freeze or boil due to the changes in temperature and pressure. The 2nd year of CanSat Professional Development for Manteca Unified School District was joined by Kim Merrill, Kristen Messer, Hortencia Garcia, Robert…

  • Lodi School District High Altitude Balloon Launch

      By Nicholas Filipas Record Staff Writer Posted Apr. 1, 2016 at 7:10 PM STOCKTON — The weather conditions on Friday were just right. Light winds; low humidity and sunny with hardly a cloud in the sky. A perfect day to launch a weather balloon 100,000 feet and beyond into the atmosphere. Seventh- and eighth-grade…

  • A walking 3D Printer Hexapod created by Michael Shiloh’s students

    [youtube_video id=”FHnaLbghZ1o” height=”” width=””]   Is it robot or art?  Our education advisor, Michael Shiloh, appeared in an article today by Signe Brewster on GIGAOM.   Michael Shiloh Arduino Education at Arduino Arduino San Francisco Art Institute Exploratorium         Last year, Michael Shiloh, an engineer, tinkerer and lecturer at Bay Area colleges, co-taught an advanced…