{"id":12725,"date":"2021-05-26T16:39:47","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T16:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/?p=12725"},"modified":"2021-05-26T18:03:54","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T18:03:54","slug":"ncc-engineering-students-complete-balloon-launch-and-payload-recovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2021\/05\/ncc-engineering-students-complete-balloon-launch-and-payload-recovery\/","title":{"rendered":"NCC Engineering Students Complete Balloon Launch and Payload Recovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12752\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC_0244-964x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"763\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC_0244-964x1024.jpg 964w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC_0244-283x300.jpg 283w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC_0244-768x815.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/DSC_0244.jpg 1440w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\" \/>Members of Nash Community College\u2019s High Altitude Balloon Team, &#8220;The Nashtronauts&#8221;, launched this year&#8217;s payload on the campus on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The balloon launch and payload recovery are the final steps of a six-month-long, open-ended Engineering project.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<p><div dir=\"auto\">At the beginning of the academic year, NC Space Grant provides a list of rules and basic components that must be included in the balloon\u2019s payload.\u00a0Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 and 2021 statewide ballooning competitions were canceled. However, a generous donation to the NCC Foundation allowed the Nashtronauts to continue working and learning.\u00a0Alan and Ashley Moore established the Moore Family Fund for College Support that provides funding for the NCC Foundation Campus Mini-Grants and the Student Ambassador programs. The project was funded through a campus mini-grant.<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The\u00a0majority of the students on the team plan to transfer to a university to major in engineering. Most of their course work at Nash Community College is theoretical, classroom instruction. The High Altitude Balloon Team provides the students an opportunity to apply the skills they\u2019ve learned in the classroom to real-life situations. The students learn about federal regulations, proper documentation, planning, teamwork, research, programming, soldering, working with various electrical sensors and components, and so much more.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">For more information, please contact\u00a0Shilo Lawrence, NCC\u00a0Director, Associate in Engineering and Transfer and\u00a0Professor, Mathematics &amp; Engineering at\u00a0(252)451-8398 or\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:smlawrence923@nashcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">smlawrence923@nashcc.edu.\u00a0<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Nash Community College\u2019s High Altitude Balloon Team, &#8220;The Nashtronauts&#8221;, launched this year&#8217;s payload on the campus on Wednesday, May 19, 2021. The balloon launch and payload recovery are&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/2021\/05\/ncc-engineering-students-complete-balloon-launch-and-payload-recovery\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12725"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12757,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12725\/revisions\/12757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nashccnews.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}