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3. Establish a model program for K-U participation in building, integrating and flying payloads on experimental rockets and balloons Stanford University will establish and promote a payload development program at Stanford University with graduate, undergraduate and local high school students to build payloads for space testing. Design and build the things that can enhance outreach.

4. Near space balloons flown on March 2007 and March 2008 to altitudes of almost 100,000 ft. Developed high power ARLISS type rocket to fly payloads to over two miles. Flown at Fresno. Developed Virtual Classroom system to provide outreach to schools from launch sites of rocket, near space balloons and other field activities. Developed devices for in classroom learning – BuzzBot, CricketSat Developed and managed program for payloads on Garvey Spacecraft/CSULB - Rockets Completed PolarBot rover and tested in Antarctica.

5. Near space balloon launches

6. SJSU ARLISS Rocket

7. Integrated student payloads for Garvey Spacecraft and CSULB – Rocket Flights September 2007 October 2008

8. VC System Mojave October 2008 Black Rock September 2008

9. Testing near Lake Tahoe, CA PolarBot

10. The balloon launch to near space was conducted twice with students. The first in March of 2007 and the second in March of 2008. The total crew of students were about 20 from Stanford University and about 5 private volunteer mentors. Balloon Launches Conducted

11. Over the period of the WIRED contract, there were multi year launch campaigns. 2006 ARLISS – September 2006, ~60 students, 25 rockets launched. 2007 ARLISS – September 2007, ~80 students, 30 rockets Garvey/CSULB – September 2007, ~ 4 students, 1 rocket 2008 ARLISS – September 2008, ~ 100 Students, 40 rockets SJSU ARLISS Rocket – June 2008, ~5 students, 1 rocket Garvey/CSULB – July 2008 ~ 15 students, 1 rocket Rocket Launches Conducted

12. High School – 2 – learning electronics Undergraduate – 2 – learning electronics Undergraduate – 1 – working on nephelometer Graduate – 1- working on lunar sat model Undergraduate – 2 – working on VC System Interns

13. Procedures for procurement policies in a program like the WIRED program working with a private university require: 1.An understanding of selection of needed parts and how to effective purchase them. The ways are: a.Small purchase of parts or materials that are needed quickly of value less than $250 can be done by the designers with their personal assets with general oversight by the project manager. b.Parts that are needed but have at least 2-4 weeks of lead time can be purchased through the university purchasing department. c.Parts, materials or services that exceed the cost of $1,000 must have WIRED program mangers approval. Generally these purchases must have three vendors or a sole source justification must be provided. 2.Delivery and receipt of ordered products. a.Parts and materials can be delivered directly to the designer if ordered other than through the university purchasing department. b.All enclosed invoices and packing receipts must be kept and returned to the university purchaser for receipts payable if ordered by the university.

14. 2.Delivery and receipt of ordered products. (cont’ed) c.Parts and materials that were purchased by the university will be delivered to the university, unless other arrangements are made. d.All enclosed invoices and packing receipts for purchases made other than through the university purchasing department must be given to the Task Partner, who will process them for reimbursement to the purchaser. e.Coordination must be maintained between ordering for the project and receipt of materials to make sure that all ordered material is received when expected. 3.Parts storage and inventory a.All parts or materials received must be placed into an inventory storage unit and added to the inventory list. The inventory list should indicate the amount and what the part or material is to be used for. b.When parts are take permanently from the inventory, this should be indicated on the active inventory list, the date and who receive the part.

15. ARLISS – involving ARLISS mentors, the Aeropac rocket club, brought them into the VC system program & they are now going to expand the ARLISS program to a June launch in addition to the October launch to be able to provide more rocket flight outreach. SJSU – these students built an ARLISS rocket with the aid of an Aeropac club member. This rocket is now available to for use to carry extra payloads during the ARLISS and other rocket events. Garvey Spacecraft/CSULB – provided 2 launches for the program and has developed the capability of repetitive payload flights. The Virtual Classroom System is the primary product of this WIRED task. It was conceived, designed and developed with mentors and students and will provide outreach capability with rockets and balloon flights far beyond other programs by being able to work with student located geographically independent of the remote launch and flight areas. Highlights of Major Accomplishments

16. The ARLISS program, although having provided outreach services for ten years, will continue with enhance capability with the VC System, but is also expanding the outreach endeavor due to the association with the WIRED program. Collaboration with SJSU – student for building an ARLISS rocket, working on the VC System and the PolarBot program, to name a few – has moved into project not done before in this engineering training. The collaboration with Garvey Spacecraft & CSULB has developed a capability that can be tremendously exciting and useful in the outreach programs. Having the ability to carry payloads on the P8 and the P12 rockets along with the use of the VC System can provide a large number of launch opportunities. Sustainability is now dependent upon parties of the WIRED program seeking fund to continue this program. Sustainability

17. There are several things that this WIRED Task 3.3 program has produced that will be transferrable to other outreach programs. 1.Experience in working with students to develop and use existing tools that can be used in other outreach program. 2.Use of rockets to carry student payload – pioneered by the ARLISS program. 3.The development of the VC System to demonstrate that a system like this can be develop for 1/5 – 1/10 the cost of a commercial system. The plans and replication of this VC Systems at other locations can now be done for less cost and much quicker than this system. 4.The ability to collect and coordinate integration of payloads for outreach has been developed and stream lined. Use of the webinar was a unique way to get remote locations involved in local flight opportunities. Transferability

18. The future created by this WIRED Task 3.3 has: 1.Given the participants training in what is required to do outreach from: a.Learning how to use students to develop outreach tools and infrastructure. b.Finding ways to connect the classroom with real world experiences in real experiments in a natural environment. 2.Understanding of better ways to collaborate with industry and government space programs to launch payloads/experiments that can demonstrate skills needed for high tech employment. Future