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Today marks my third week for me here at Oklahoma State University. This week was actually pretty different in comparison to the others.
Entrance to the National Weather Center in Norman, OK.
On Monday, I started the day off by waking up at 4:45 AM and getting ready to drive the hour and a half to Norman, Oklahoma. As mentioned in my previous blog, we would be coming up to Norman three times, July 8-10, to attend the CloudMap Symposium held at the National Weather Center. We dedicated the first day to listening in on different presentations from the different universities who were there. These presentations informed the other members of CloudMap what they were currently working on and everyone could then discuss to be able to help each other, whether it was advice or an offer of collaboration. It was very informative. Basically everyone who presented had a PhD in Aerospace or were PhD students, so these were extremely intelligent people. I took note of how they presented their information and how everyone communicated.
The National Weather Center lobby full of posters.
The following day, we listened to more presentations and then after lunch, it was our turn to show off some of our work. About 20 posters were placed inside the National Weather Center and everyone was allowed to free roam and check out the ones they liked. Our group of high schoolers had two posters out, one explaining the phenomena going on at Lake Carl Blackwell and the other talking about radiosondes and our data collection. I promised to talk about radiosondes in last weeks post so here it is! Radiosondes are telemetry devices used to record atmospheric data. This includes atmospheric pressure, temperature, etc. They are typically the devices we strap onto UAVs to collect data. We talked about radiosondes in the poster and how we would implement them into our inflatable wing idea to create a very compact, portable aerial system that can collect a wide variety of information. It’s an amazing project honestly.
The high school crew, feeling a little under the weather.
On Thursday we spoke with Dr. Jacob about our achievements and how everything has been going so far with our projects. We used the remainder of the day cutting baffles for our next practice inflatable wing. This might be our last practice one which means hopefully we’ll be putting something into the air within the next couple weeks. During our trips to Norman, we collected a nice 12-14 hours of work each day so the USRI had us take Friday off which no one really complained about. I used that day to head back to the YMCA and work out as usual. As I’m typing this, my core feels like a giant bruise and my legs feel like noodles. Let’s hope I get rock solid abs by August 2 😎
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