[HSIS] Fwd: press release rough draft

[Ethan Chew]

Hello,

      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.

             - Ethan


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Brian Walker <misterworld at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:42 PM
Subject: Fwd: press release rough draft
To: Ethan Chew <spacefelix at gmail.com>


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.

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?

Thanks again,

Brian

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: trevor daniels <trevorcollindaniels at gmail.com>
Date: Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 4:38 PM
Subject: Re: press release rough draft
To: Brian Walker <misterworld at gmail.com>


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 "*over x different workshops from around the globe (or
country or whatever)"*.  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.

Let me know if you have any more questions.

-Trevor

BEGIN PRESS RELEASE:


Makers Local 256 wins First Prize in Weather Balloon Competition





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.


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.  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.  The balloon had a
built-in camera which allowed it to take stunning pictures of earth from the
atmospheric ceiling (see attached)



For more information about Makers Local or the HSIS contest, please visit

www.256.makerslocal.org
contact at makerslocal.org

http://workshop88.com/space/
Makers Local 256
203 Brown Street
Huntsville, Al 35805


END PRESS RELEASE
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