<div class="gmail_quote">Hello,<br><br> This is the Makers Local 256 press release on the HSIS competition (at the bottom). I have added some of my own revisions. Please revise and return to me either today or tomorrow. Some recommendations on edits are in the test body. I will consolidate the versions. Thanks.<br>
<br> - Ethan<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Brian Walker</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:misterworld@gmail.com" target="_blank">misterworld@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:42 PM<br>Subject: Fwd: press release rough draft<br>To: Ethan Chew <<a href="mailto:spacefelix@gmail.com" target="_blank">spacefelix@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>This is Trevor's input - he raises some good points about what to include. There's a lot of questions I don't have answers for, like where you found the parts and how many spaces participated. I didn't see it on the HSIS website. Do me a favor and add your input and let me know. It's kind of time sensitive, so please get it back to me today or tomorrow.<br>
<br>I'd also like to include the names of everyone who worked on it - I think I remember, but if I type it I'm going to leave someone's name out and that would suck. Can you include that for me, too?<br><br>
Thanks again,<br>
<br>Brian<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">trevor daniels</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:trevorcollindaniels@gmail.com" target="_blank">trevorcollindaniels@gmail.com</a>></span><br>
Date: Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:38 PM<br>Subject: Re: press release rough draft<br>To: Brian Walker <<a href="mailto:misterworld@gmail.com" target="_blank">misterworld@gmail.com</a>><br><br><br>You should probably say that it was made by them using things that you can go out to the store and buy, explain some of the cooler little gizmos attached to it (like whatever they used as a transceiver and GPS), and say how much it cost. You should download the HSIS press release and get some more information about them in there. Put in there that y'all were competing with "<b>over x different workshops from around the globe (or country or whatever)"</b>. I can send it out to the media for you when you get it done through Main Street. They talk to the media regularly, so you have a better chance of getting in if they do it. Of course, that's only if you want me to send it out for you. I can understand if you want to do it yourself. Also, you may want to include how long it took to build the device and plan the launch. And put in a quote from the team lead.<br>
<br>Let me know if you have any more questions.<br><font color="#888888"><br>-Trevor</font></div>
</div><br></div></div>BEGIN PRESS RELEASE:<div class="im"><br><br><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Makers Local 256 wins First Prize in Weather
Balloon Competition</span></p>
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</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Huntsville, Al (October 4, 2010)-- Makers
Local 256, Alabama’s first hacker space and make shop, has just been
awarded
first place in the Hacker Spaces in Space competition run by Workshop 88
in
Chicago to launch a weather balloon to near-space altitudes and return with photographs in which the curvature of the Earth and the blackness of space are visible.<br></span></p><div class="im"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">The Hacker Spaces in Space (HSIS)
competition is an annual event where different workshops all over the
country
try to launch an object into the upper atmosphere. <span> </span>Each
launch is scored based on factors of altitude
reached, weight, speed of module recovery, and the cost of parts used in
the
module. Makers Local 256 members launched their weather balloon several
times,
and came in first place by only half a point.<span>
</span>The balloon had a built-in camera which allowed it to take
stunning
pictures of earth from the atmospheric ceiling (see attached)</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For more information about Makers Local or
the HSIS contest, please visit</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><a href="http://www.256.makerslocal.org/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">www.256.makerslocal.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><br>
</span><a href="mailto:contact@makerslocal.org" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">contact@makerslocal.org</span></a><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><a href="http://workshop88.com/space/" target="_blank">http://workshop88.com/space/</a></span></p>
</div><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><div class="im">Makers Local 256<br>
203 Brown Street<br>
Huntsville, Al 35805</div><span> <br><br>END PRESS RELEASE<br></span></span>
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