Club Meeting Minutes, 1/13/10

We began the meeting with a 5-minute video about the Space Escalator project, created by Andy from the AP Physics C course.  This led to a discussion on the space elevator and carbon nanotubes.

Following the technical portion of the meeting, club members broke into groups to develop a formal scope of work for the projects under consideration (laser, rocket, superconductor).

We talked about what makes for a good Scope of Work document, and used information developed from our previous meeting as a starting point.

We will continue to work on these with the goal of submitting them to the science department head prior to mid-term week.

There will be no meeting next week due to mid-term exam preparations.  Next meeting will be Wednesday, February 3, at 3:10 p.m. in Room 3033.

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Next Meeting

Next meeting of the Xtreme Science Club will be Wednesday, January 13th, after school in Room 3033. There will NOT be a meeting on January 6th.