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  News and Notes from the October 30, 2007 SPS meeting


Annual Can Sat competition.  If you are interested in building a little
satellite for this competition, you must claim your interest by TOMORROW. 
The write-ups are due in the spring.  There is a packet of details on the
Seminar room post up board.


Calendar competition.  Has anybody else entered the calendar competition
besides Jen and Tyler?


Volleyball.  If you are still interested in playing on our intramural
volleyball team, talk to Tyler to see about getting signed up.


Housekeeping.  Since the seminar room gets so much use throughout any
given day, we are asking that we reduce the extra workload on our
custodian and make it more pleasant for others wishing to use the room by
picking up after ourselves.  This involves throwing away empty packages,
taking home dirty dishes, not leaving text books and notebooks strewn
amongst the room, and so on.


Holmes Comet.  Last night we were able to take a picture of the Holmes
comet.  It was so bright that we are thinking that maybe it fragmented. 
You can see it with a pair of binoculars, or by checking out
www.spaceweather.com.


New Richmond High School visit today.  We showed them the trebuchet, bed
of nails, liquid nitrogen, the sun telescope, and the basketball drop with
an egg.  Although we tried to do the drop from the observation deck, we
found that our aim needs a little bit of work, as does the reaction time
when throwing an egg into a bed sheet.


Membership Drive.  You need to get signed up and notify Dr. B by the end
of the month, which happens to be tomorrow night!!!   Two of the phabulous
prizes that were discussed today were a Freddy Falcon watch and a usb
laser printer that still works!


Shirt Designs.  We will be offering them in multiple colors, which will
soon be decided.  The design itself is almost ready for printing.


Fall competition.  We are for sure doing solid fuel rockets, as the
models were delivered today!  We ordered 48 kits, so this is a first come,
first serve competition.  The cost of the kit is $10 to allot for prize
money.  There is a clipboard to sign up for the competition in the seminar
room, and make sure you do it by Monday, November 12th or before we run
out of kits, whichever happens first.  We are thinking that the launch day
will be Thursday, November 15th at either the intramural field or the
soccer field.  If anybody would like to help in the construction of an
altitude calculating device or help with making the software work for it,
let Dr. B know.


Trebuchet refurbishing.  The projectile guide track has been replaced,
but we're tossing around ideas for paint/stain.  We should get it done,
though, before the weather turns bad for us.


Field trip.  Still thinking about going to the Bakken Museum on a
Thursday night.


Pre-engineering Society.  They are going to hold a special re-election
for secretary because of a class conflict (silly pe classes).  They also
cleaned the pond last night.


Demo.  Our demo today was the basketball with egg (tennis ball) on top. 
It was decided it would be good to practice this demo since we would be
doing it for New Richmond later on in the day.

Minutes taken by Jen

Happy Halloween Everybody!!!


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