[HSIS] Fwd: press release rough draft

[Rohan Rana]

I concur with all the comments. I will just add that we don't want it too
Long and boring. I think we should include brief details about the
parts/materials used, basic design philosophy, length of time and cost. Also
perhaps a brief description of flight day and your tracking/recovery
adventures. That's my two cents.

~Rohan
On Oct 4, 2010 8:01 PM, "Ethan Chew" <spacefelix at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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