This document provides updates on the activities of a student space program over a 3 day period due to school closures from COVID-19. It discusses progress made on developing a tardigrade microgravity habitat including 3D printed components. It also outlines a summer program including course topics from surveys and details logistical planning. Updates are given on plate scanner software development and team members' feelings about working remotely during quarantine.

1. ROUND 3 WEEK 1
Moon Bears to
Space
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2. GOAL 1
Tardigrade
microgravity
habitat
development.
GOALS
GOAL 2
GOAL 3
Plate Scanner
Software.
Summer program
planning.
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*This was a short week (3 days)
due to no school days. In
addition, we are all working
remotely due to COVID-19.

3. PARENT SURVEY
These responses
were from a
google forms
survey sent
through
Constella.
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Timestamp
Would you be
interested in
having your
student attend
this summer
program?
How many weeks is your
student available for during
the summer? How many
days in a week? Which
days?
How much would
you expect this
program to cost?
Would you be
more interested
having your
student attend a
summer where
you can produce
a product like a
cubesat (small
cube-shaped
satellite)?
Does our flyer
give you
enough
information?
1/18/2020
13:52:16 Yes
6 weeks, any,
Monday-Thursday n/a No No
1/18/2020
21:10:03 Yes 8 weeks , 5 days , free Yes No
1/19/2020
8:08:11 Yes
It can be a week long summer
camp as long as we have the
schedule early for planning
Depending on the
content and
activities, 300-400
per week is
reasonable Yes Yes
1/20/2020
7:55:07 Yes
Available weekdays most
weeks except for the last 2
weeks in July 2020. Some
weekdays, might need to leave
at 2pm. $300-500/week Yes No
2/2/2020
21:05:44 Yes 3 300 per week Yes No
2/9/2020
15:06:12 Yes
several weeks, usually all 5
days Monday-Friday $500 Yes Yes

4. FINALIZED SUMMER
PROGRAM COURSES
Using the responses gathered from the parent and student surveys, we
created a finalized summer program course and detailed which topics we
want to touch on in each of the 4 main classes: Hardware, Software,
Business, Marketing.
Link to summer program outline:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oEInr1yzEA0b13gRvuGS3S82xhX424UT4NrN
m-_wyHc/edit?usp=sharing
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5. SUMMER PROGRAM
LOGISTICS
Over this past week, we have also spent time working on doing
research to brainstorm what the logistics of the program will look
like.
We have been working on looking into:
● Non-profits
● Insurance
● Potential locations
Link to doc:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PoxTg78OQeAF7ieNCsWc-Hr-1pNjFj0XJms-
hE60vqw/edit?usp=sharing
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6. PLATE SCANNER
SOFTWARE
Progress so far:
● Majority of UI created
● Functionality for connecting to Arduino
● Basic framework for program
What needs to be done next week:
● Functionality for every other part of the UI
● Functionality for microscope pictures and video feed
● OpenCV algorithms for calibration, image stitching, counting, etc.
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7. Main Control Tab: All standard plate scanner activity can be done
only on this screen.
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Movement Control Tab: This is for monitoring the operations of
the arduino and motor shield.
This is where the video
stream from the
microscope will go
This is a
navigation
aid
This is
manual
control of
scanner
movement
v these are the different
scanner operations
^ scanner statistics
^ controls for connecting to the scanner

8. TARDIGRADE
MICROGRAVITY HABITAT
Progress so far:
● Finished designing and 3D printing the petri
dish container and the plate for the grow
lights.
● Acrylic piece has been designed and sent off
to be laser cut.
● Bought more petri dishes.
What needs to be done next week:
● Attach grow lights and cover top part of
microgravity habitat in aluminum foil.
● Testing the design.
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9. PICTURES OF
PROTOTYPE SO FAR
The acrylic piece design with
engraving to be added with
laser cutter. Design created on
Inkscape.
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Petri dish container with foam
and the grow lights piece with
aluminum foil. Connectors have
been screwed in.
All put together. The acrylic
piece would go in the middle,
between both parts.

10. HOW WE FEEL ABOUT
THIS WEEK...
Christina - 9: I felt like the quarantine this week was pretty relaxing and I
felt like I was more productive because I had less distractions and could
therefore be more organized.
Holger - 9: I was more productive this week because I was less distracted due to
the quarantine.
Justin - 7.5: Although it was relaxing being in quarantine, I did not get as
much done compared to other weeks where I could collaborate with other team
members.
Alex - 9: I was able to learn a lot due to the lack of distraction. I also had a
lot of time to do a lot of work on the microgravity habitat.
Drew - 7: I did not enjoy the quarantine and it limited our ability to do group
work. We made good progress but group communication is more difficult.
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