Sunday, August 17, 2014

Adventure is out there!!!!!!


I'm sure many have been sitting on the edge of their seats awaiting the latest news on science honors. Unfortunately for our readers, with papers to write, presentations to give, and balloons to find, blogging was not exactly at the top of the to do list. So, where did we leave off? Oh right, two balloons were 50 feet up in trees and one was yet to be found. The Thursday morning following launch, at 6am a groggy Team Sparkles, climbed into the Houghton van once more in search of adventure. Along with the professors (and luckily a professional tree climber this time), they headed south towards Williamsport, PA again. The tree climber was able to retrieve the Maple Leaf and Flying Monkey balloons. After searching for Team Sparkles' balloon for a Ruthanna spotted their ozone sensor lying on the ground. Why was it not longer attached to their balloon? Later discovery of their balloon revealed that their secondary cutdown had released their parachute a couple thousand feet up. Bad news is their box made a crash landing in the forrest. Good news is they captured sweet video on the GoPro of the free fall (and that's all that matters right?). In addition Flying Monkeys received nice pictures from their GoPro (seen in this post).


 Lastly, Maple Leaf's program recorded all of their data to the SD card. Yes. We were shocked too. Especially at 9pm when we received the data with 11 hours until paper and presentation deadline. The next morning after presentations and sad goodbyes we all headed home for some much needed sleep. Since Dr. Wolfe extended our biology paper deadline, the first week of summer included completing that paper as a group online. This will probably be one of our last posts. I know I know, how will you go on? It'll be OK. Follow a food blog (thought not not as cool as ours), subscribe to more youtube channels, climb some mountains, anything to get your mind off of it really. With 24 students next year maybe one will be as awesome as we are and blog about their adventures. Until then, pray that is the case, and watch Up over and over.
--Kayla

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