What’s in a name?
All great project start somewhere and all great projects have a name. Some names are abbreviations of their true meaning and some are just for fun. After our team had Continue Reading →
Category Archives: Blog
Meet the Team: Chris Tiller
Name: Christopher Tiller DOB: May 23rd, 1993 Major: Physics Class Standing: Junior Chris is a third year Physics major at the University of Central Florida. In high school he was Continue Reading →
Electrical versus Mechanical
BY| Kelly Lai and Brad Hoover The electrical prototype will utilize muscle wire, which is a shape-memory alloy, and various torsion springs to achieve the requested results. First, the launching Continue Reading →
Meeting Recap 11/12-11/19
On Tuesday, November 12, our team went into a discussion about the speed at which the ball would be launched. Dr. Colwell brought up the point that in order to Continue Reading →
NASA Telecon
BY| Sara Lane As a student who has never done much in the science field, I was excited to experience a telecom with NASA and the other selected USIP teams. Continue Reading →
Meet the Team: Sam Benjamin
Name: Samuel Benjamin Age: 19 Major: Photonic Sciences and Engineering Class Standing: Junior Sam was born and raised in Orlando. Science has always captured his interest and playing music Continue Reading →
Meeting Recap 9/10 -11/5
Our team meets once a week on Tuesdays at 11 a.m. to review what each of our members has been working on and what the next steps will be. Over Continue Reading →
First Team Meeting 09/10/13
After months of waiting to receive the news of acceptance, it finally arrived on September 5, 2013– also known as the greatest day ever! I’m sitting in my room studying Continue Reading →