9/27/2025

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9/27/2025

Project Team Updates

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IREC

@Ares Bustinza Nguyen (RIT Student)

  • Bought a lot of things for various subteams

  • Watched and took notes on the ESRA Town Hall

  • PDR (+ sent notes and recording to Sam)

  • Managing timeline with the rest of the subteam leads

  • Talking with stephen about budget

Space Race (Icarus)

@Caden Bickel (RIT Student)

  • Team name decided (Icarus)

  • Meeting time and room figured out

    • Tuesdays 5pm in GLE 1149

  • Going over payload and mission ideas today

  • Make sure that every new member has a team and knows how to find info

  • Get members emails and send to Alan for google drive access 

  • Work on plan for possible combined meeting on Oct. 4th

Space Race (Team B)

@Harvey Ni (RIT Student)

  • Started brainstorming names and payload ideas

  • Send out when2meet, waiting for more reply

  • Created slides for this week meeting

  • Figure out an official second meeting time for room

  • Member emails for google drive access

  • Decide on a team name/ rocket name today

  • Potentially a payload/mission idea today

Liquid Propulsion

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

 

 

  • Got flights for Florida, working on hotel and rental car now

  • Caitlin submitted travel form thank you!!!!!

  • Figured out NOx supplier and bottle situation

    • Racing supplier in Buffalo, can use our bottle ($550) with 20 lbs of NOx ($160)

    • Need to find someone in Buff. to transport and fill our bottle

  • Talked with Mike yesterday

    • Cleared up vice concerns

    • Figured out Certificate of Insurance process

  • Budget figured out (Thank you Stephen!!!)

  • email Campus Life about COI

Solid Propulsion

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

  • Getting tentative approval for 40g, ehs wanted to send it to someone (sorry forgot who)

  • Broke down semester plan, need to figure out specific burn/mix schedule

  • Forgot to send when2meet to admin my bad

  • Talk to Scott

  • Talk to admin

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Avionics (Hardware)

@Mary Dertinger (RIT Student)

  • Got BLT plane

  • MIA shielded inductors that are out of stock everywhere

  • ordered new inductors with my own money bc we have none

  • mesh has pickout out their MCU and radio chip, going well so far

  • made 4 shirts

  • solder BLT, probs shai 

  • make shirts

  • keep up with DVR 

  • keep up with mesh 

Avionics (Software)

@Richard Sommers (RIT Student)

  • SW Boards up and running

  • More teaching and learning

  • Told Balloon SW People to lock in

  • Prep for radio testing

  • GSW Discussion Monday

  • Radio Testing (post cookout)

HAB Team

@Braxton L. Crandall (RIT Student)

  • Visited the helium tank in GLE shop (it’s in fact still there)

  • Took inventory of team space shelf (our stuff is in fact still there)

  • Identified things we need to buy before we can launch

  • Acquired a few new HABlings

  • Jonny-Go-Fast printed the HAB Box

  • Order the stuff

  • Work on finishing the HAB box while we wait for EHS insurance department to decide our fate

  • Put together line diagram, make some payloads to send up

E-Board Updates

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President

@Alexis Smith (RIT Student)

  • Going to meeting with Jonathan and Alan to discuss PTOH

  • Filled out Makerfair application

  • Talked to Mike about swipe for Nat

  • Went shopping for cookout

  • Schedule sending email out to KGCOE for Monday morning

  • Responded to Adams email about PTOH

 

Director of Competition Operations

@Alan Grilley (RIT Student)'

#workparties

Nov 8 and 15 SR PDR

Machine trainings with Donovan, Oscar, Riley Brown

Fusion workshop after general in Oct?

Director of Research and Development

@Jonathan Godfrey (RIT Student)

  • Liquids event form is filled out(Still need to do travel form today)

  • Received a rundown on Liquids engine test ops

  • Worked with hab to identify action items for launch

  • Fill out travel form for liquids Florda trip

  • email CL for certificate of insurance

Treasurer

@Stephen Zelazny-Medina (RIT Student)

  • Venessa says she’ll try and get the amazon refunds done by the end of September

  • Still no August statements :(

Restricted Budget Remaining

IREC

$817.87

SR A

$0

SR 1

$0

Avionics

$0.78

HAB

$350

Liquids

$436.52

Solids

$50.00

Admin

$2.08

Club Finances

Unassigned Rem.

-$530.41

Net Balance

$1,160.39

% Funded

30.10%

Reimburse Evan
Reimburse Ellie

Director of Sponsorship

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

  • Donovan sent out more emails/follow-ups

  • Heard back from Bracalente, need to reach out with number

  • Delta form filled out

 

Director of Public Relations

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

  • BBQ TODAY!!!!

    • 103 People Signed Up!

  • Will be leaving right after General to set up

  • Went Shopping for supplies

Send out reminder for BBQ today

Secretary

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

  • Sending out interest form for merch today (due 10/11)

  • Will fill out form for Performance Team Open House as soon as we have number of people attending

Send out merch interest form
Fill out performance team open house