Minnesota Space Grant Exhibit at STEM Day at the State Fair Featured on Channel 45 TV News
Channel 45 (ABC) featured Panos Delton, a University of Minnesota senior, and stratospheric ballooning hardware at the Minnesota Space Grant Consortium booth at the Minnesota State Fair. The MnSGC regularly has a day-long exhibit on STEM Day on the first day of the Minnesota State Fair. Typically the exhibit includes student-built aerospace hardware, such as […]
Minnesota Space Grant offers stratospheric ballooning workshop for GO4ST8 high school physics teachers
James Flaten and the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities ballooning team, assisted by Erick Agrimson and the St. Catherine University ballooning team, offered a learn-to-do-stratospheric-ballooning workshop for high school physics teachers from GO4ST8. The teachers constructed two payloads containing multiple cameras, stand-alone sensors, and microcontroller-logged sensors suites, then helped launch them on a weather balloon on […]
Minnesota Space Grant announces “GLEAM Lunar Robotics” Intercollegiate Challenge for 2021-2022. (Sign-ups are now closed.) Kick-off at U of MN – Twin Cities on Sunday, Oct. 10, 2021.
NASA’s Minnesota Space Grant Consortium (MnSGC) is pleased to announce the “MnSGC 2021-2022 GLEAM Lunar Robotics Intercollegiate Challenge.” Challenge website: https://m.dept.aem.umn.edu//msgc/MN_Space_Grant_GLEAM_Lunar_Robotics_Challenge_2021_2022/ In this challenge, which will run from October 2021 through March 2022, teams of students will develop small electronic sensor suites which will be carried by miniature radio-controlled surface vehicles to explore an unknown, […]
Free Robotics Workshop for Teachers Offered
Concordia College Graduate and Continuing Studies is offering a free robotics workshop consisting of a 100% virtual NASA-in-the-Classroom professional development activity. The workshop is open to all Minnesota K-12 educators (and, space permitting, education majors). Participants will receive a free Sphero robot and join their class as they learn how to integrate coding into their […]
Quadcopter Challenge Winners Announced
Despite pandemic-related challenges, teams from eight colleges and universities and one high school were able to complete the 2020-2021 Minnesota Space Grant Consortium Exploration-Flying Quadcopter Challenge. Congratulations to all! Judges ranked these teams as the top three: First Place: Minnesota State University Moorhead Second Place: Century College Third Place: Hill-Murray High School Here is a […]
MN Space Grant Student Symposium on March 27, 2021
The Minnesota Space Grant Consortium hosted a statewide Student Symposium on Saturday, March 27, 2021 – see link to “abstract booklet” (including recorded video links) posted below. This day-long virtual event included talks from 24 individual students and student teams who have been working on MnSGC-sponsored projects during the past year. There were also talks […]