1. Maryland Space Grant Consortium Program Highlights Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting 2006 September 14

2. Balloon Payload Project

3. 9 Launches to date U. Maryland, Morgan State U., Hagerstown CC, & Carver Center (high school) & other parts of NASA Teays attended the Colorado Workshop Special challenges in Maryland DCSGC Some interesting payloads this summer

4. Sending eggs to 100,000 feet on a balloon, and then returning them to Earth on a parachute Made it! Unfrozen! Unbroken!

5. RECTIFICATION, GEOREFERENCING, AND MOSAICKING OF IMAGES ACQUIRED WITH REMOTELY OPERATED AERIAL PLATFORMS Gabriel B. Ladd University of Maryland Eastern Shore ASPRS 2006 Annual Conference Reno, Nevada ♦ May 1-5, 2006

6. AIRSPACES

7. Summer Internships NASA Academy – sponsored 2 students –Team project will be presented at the AAS DPS meeting Robotics Academy –GSFC & ARC APL Summer Institute in Engineering & Computer Applications SAWDRIP

8. NASA Summer Aerospace Workforce Development Research Internship Program Partnership with GSFC and the Maryland Space Business Roundtable Six participants this year Expect to expand it next summer

9. 2006 SAWDRIP Interns

10. 2006 SAWDRIP INTERNS

11. September 16-18, 2006 Baltimore, Maryland Baltimore Hyatt Regency at the Inner Harbor Co-hosted with the Space Telescope Science Institute

12. Exhibit booth MDSGC and National Space Grant Foundation booth at the meeting All Space Grants encouraged to use the booth to –Distribute materials –Tell people about Space Grant –Meet other Space Grant participants

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