Wednesday, February 22, 2012

VT KTU Feb. 25th exhibit- CanSat at VT organization and the RASC-AL senior design team joint booth!

The CanSat at VT organization and the RASC-AL senior design team are hosting a joint exhibit for KTU on February 25th. CanSat is a competition for students to build a miniature satellite roughly the size of two soda cans that gets launched into the lower atmosphere and collects and transmits atmospheric and telemetry data on its way down to the ground. The RASC-AL group works on a paper study for NASA for a potential manned mission to Mars.

We will be hosting 3 distinct activities at our booth. For the first activity kids will build paper rockets using paper, a straw and a index card. They'll learn very basic things about control and fins. For the second activity the kids will design a duck call straw. And lastly, the kids will see some "cool" electronics gadgets.

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