 An eclipse shaow seen from the
stratosphere from a MN Space Grant balloon
flight in 2017.
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2022-2023 MN Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC) Eclipse
Ballooning Intercollegiate Challenge
NASA’s MN Space Grant Consortium
(MnSGC) – read more at https://www.mnspacegrant.org/ – led from the Aerospace Engineering
and Mechanics (AEM) Department at the University of
Minnesota - Twin Cities (UMTC) (Director, Professor
Demoz Gebre, and Associate Director, Professor James
Flaten) is organizing the 2022-2023 MnSGC
(mock-)Eclipse Ballooning intercollegiate challenge.
This program is designed to enhance student and
faculty capability at colleges and universities in
Minnesota in STEM areas of interest to NASA - in this
particular case, using microcontrollers, sensors,
and/or video cameras, all carried on a "payload" into
the stratosphere on a weather balloon flight to study
conditions - especially conditions that would change
during a total solar eclipse. Oversight of this
challenge is being organized by Professor James Flaten
and Ashton Posey, an undergraduate teaching assistant,
at the U of MN - Twin Cities.
Promo video of the Eclipse Ballooning challenge (17 min)
U of MN / MnSGC Contacts and Organizers
Demoz Gebre-Egziabher, Director of the MN Space Grant Consortium gebre@umn.edu
James Flaten, Assocociate Director of the MN Space Grant Consortium flate001@umn.edu
Ashton Posey, U of MN - Twin Cities student assistant posey033@umn.edu
Participating Institutions
Concordia College, Moorhead
St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud
Winona State University, Winona
U of MN, Twin Cities
Document archive for the 2022-2023 Eclipse Ballooning Challenge
Learn to Learn-To-Solder comic
Soldering Tips - The Basics training video (32 min)
Soldering Tips - Beyond the Basics training video (40 min)
Photo instructions for Learn-To-Solder "Flasher" kit
CAD (using Onshape) Basics training video (38 min)
Arduino Programming Basics training video (80 min)
Video Analysis and Data Plotting with Excel training video (17 min)
NASA Adult Media Release Form (i.e. photo release form) (required of all student and faculty participants)
NASA Parent/Minor Media Release Form (i.e. photo release form) (if you happen to have any team members who are minors)
Additional Documents (check back upon occasion)
PDR
Template (in MS Word format) for the
written report due by December 21, 2022
Direct link to some PTERODACTYL
documentation.