8/30/2025

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8/30/2025

SProject Team Updates

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IREC

@Ares Bustinza Nguyen (RIT Student)

  • Met with subteam leads

  • Consolidated preliminary budget (sent to Stephen for sponsorship material)

  • Met with DCO

  • Discussed potential system engineers/mentors for each subteam

  • Established weekly meeting times for subteams during the week

  • Created standard organization for the IREC drive

  • Google Calendar for important IREC dates!

  • Prep for first weekly meeting

  • Reach out to Sam

  • Put together handoff matrix with subteam leads

  • Review and refine rough calendar testing dates with leads

  • Start looking for people for Video Challenge

Space Race (Team A)

@Caden Bickel (RIT Student)

  • Met with space race leadership and discussed week 1 and future plans

  • Looked over L2 education materials

  • Check with new space race members if they want a midweek meeting

Space Race (Team B)

@Harvey Ni (RIT Student)

  • The same thing as Caden

  • Reviewed Yev’s 50 slides

 

Liquid Propulsion

@Riley Quinn (RIT Student) @Hayden Quinn (RIT Student)

 

  • Completed new member presentation

  • Tried to meet with Larry

  • SOP rough draft progress

  • Finish SOP

  • Meet with Humphrey about SOP

  • Meet with Larry about testing

  • Hang up posters

Solid Propulsion

@Christian Freitag (RIT Student)@Claire Virnoche (RIT Student)

  • Picked out meeting time and room

  • Scott wants us to “vet” people before we submit their lab trainings?

Follow up with EHS again
Make sure everyone does Lab Trainings
Make new Solids poster?

Avionics (Hardware)

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)

Ordered BLTs Learning Boards

 

Avionics (Software)

@Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

Ordered SW Learning Boards

Prepare to train people

Stop working for jim so i can do avi things

HAB Team

@Braxton L. Crandall (RIT Student)

Sent a follow-up email to EHS

  • Prep sondes for L1’s while we wait for a response to launch

  • Identify if Stephen can steal our doubloons

E-Board Updates

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President

@Alexis Smith (RIT Student)

  • If you do not fill out swipe access form by the end of i will not give you swipe lol

  • do your week 1 slides!

  • talked to Larry about deployment testing and launching on September 13th (L1s are a bit trickier)

  • Club fair!

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Count L1 motors

Director of Competition Operations

@Alan Grilley (RIT Student)

Getting started with Space Race

When do we want to do safety meeting?

SHED usage/policies 5 minute next week

Ad Astra deployment testing Sept 7

URRG Sept 13-14

 

Packages

 

Director of Research and Development

@Jonathan Godfrey (RIT Student)

  • Club fair went well

    • Maybe we can be inside in the future???

  • Talked with HAB about providing sondes for the Sep 13-14 Launch

  • Talked with Jim about using his tracker

  • Talked with louis about his tracker:)

Figure out which trackers can be used for the Sep launch
Reprogram new RS41

Treasurer

@Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

  • Met with venessa

    • Have amazon access

    • Paid off AirBnB & Rental Car

      • I don’t think there’s any more landmines from last year left

        • (except reimbursing ppl, but can wait till we have money)

    • Sent info for amazon refunds

    • Made request for merch purchase

    • Someone will have to go to the start of year KGCOE club meeting

      • Me, Lexi + Secretaries should receive an email about it

  • Requested email access for new people (if mike asks you about a request to approve new emails, it was me)

    • Lexi

    • Me

    • Dovan

    • Christian

    • Jonathan (won fight against alan)

  • Made graph for sponsorship packet

  • Applied for Target tax exemption

    • The walmart replacement

  • Gave alan the cards

    • travel card expires in january, should get a new one from vennessa

Team Finances Update

Unassigned Rem.

-$199.63

Net Balance

$2,704.05

% Funded

28.38%

  • Realized I allocated too much money to sub teams

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Historical Spending
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Historical Income
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Historical Spending vs. Income

 

Figure out how to get NM storage locker receipt
Discuss future of NM storage locker w/ IREC + Admin
In-person tax-exempt QRH
Ban team from purchasing from Walmart
Mandate order-online for in-store pickup for places like HEB and Target, ect…
Submit HEB tax exemption application
Tell admin to meet with KGCOE ASAP + Tell Sponsorship/Liquids to follow up with MOOG ASAP
Even if we met w/ KGCOE today, we would not see that money until november-december. Does any subteam forsee an issue with operating only on their restricted budget until next semester? (worst case scenario)

Team

Current Rstr.

IREC

$1500.00

Space Race

$0.00

Avionics

$0.40

HAB

$600.00

Liquids

$118.87

Solids

$250.00

Admin

$300.00

Ask HAB if I can promise them 200 less dollars ($600 → $400)
Make a plan with admin for if KGCOE gives us less than $15,000
Also make a plan for if KGCOE gives us less than $20,000 (president)
Double check my work and figure out how to make up budget gap
Buy IREC 2025 wireframes
Check if we’re banned on Carhartt
Beat up Jim for loose change (remotely)

Director of Sponsorship

@Donovan Barros (RIT Student)@Christian Freitag (RIT Student)

  • Did the Sponsorship Packet

  • Did the IREC thank you

  • Altium renewal (Christian)

  • Shoutout Evan Olsen for hounding people at Moog

  • Fill out the Moog form

  • Fill out the NYSG form

  • Reach out to the 80 or so companies @Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student) sent us

    • Every airline

Director of Public Relations

@Clare McMahon (RIT Student)@Catrice Taft (RIT Student)

  • Posters are up (Gleason Removed most of the bulletin boards - buying tape while at hime to finish hanging the 3-4 in Gleason)

  • Countdown Posts are going really wells, lots of interaction

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Add meeting times to calendar and web page
SOLIDS & HAB
Updating General Slides RN
Post in like 15 min for final countdown
Clare & I will meet to discuss more event planning

Secretary

@Caitlin Riley (RIT Student) @Emma Ferraro (RIT Student)

Caitlin-

  • Scheduled rooms for after General

  • Inventoried Merch

  • Pulled out and labeled merch that never got picked up from last year

    • Asked the people that “never got it” if they did or did not

      • Turns out some actually did get their merch

  • Think that almost all the teams have a room for meetings

    • IF NOT PLEASE TELL US ASAP

  • Helped with club fair

Emma:

  • Will be passing out merch from last year after general today

  • Potentially a future sale of the merch in the basement or it will be part of the larger merch sale

Put Merch inventory in a nice sheet
Kindly ask Emma to pass out merch on 8/30
Figure out how louis made that awesome google sheet
Figure out how merch has a “My favoRITe T-Shirt” (where in the world did this come from) ????