Near Space Club

The Near Space Club at the International School of Panama sends capsules to the edge of space with high-altitude balloons. When I took over, the club had not launched in three years.

As president and electronics leader I rebuilt the program: I designed and built the capsule electronics, organized the club into six departments, and led more than 50 members through the full cycle of building, launching, and tracking a capsule.

There is something about watching a balloon you built disappear into the stratosphere, then chasing the signal to recover it, that no classroom replicates.