We awoke to rain this morning. The gauge at my house showed and inch and 40 points. This made for a wonderfully cool start to the day. It stayed cloudy a good part of the day, but the ceiling lifted so that we were a go for launches,
We actually started the day by locating a rocket we had all searched for numerous times yesterday to no avail. We decided to make a pass by the tank in the back, and there it was just waiting to be found. This made five finds for us for Thursday’s rockets. Today was a different story though. None of the rockets were in our area, and though we did search for several, we ended the day with two nose cones, and then we helped Team Five recover one we had walked right past earlier and they had gone back and found.
The Recovery Teams were all having a great time. We do get a little competitive and do all love to find the rocket first, but at the same time we all search well together. Recovery is the name of the game, and finding and returning those rockets to the students is the main objective. We have a really awesome group of recovery volunteers, and we really enjoy working with each one of them. They are a fun group. Of course, the whole SystemsGo organization is like this, they all work hard, and have fun while they are accomplishing the goal of the weekend.
Mission Control launched 21 rockets today and only had 2 others that didn’t pass to the final stage to launch. Recovery located and returned all but two back to the students, and those are still being sought after.
Mid way through the day, the clouds burned off and rewarded us with a bright blue sky to continue launching. The schools involved in today’s launches included: Fabens High School, RL Turner High School, Marble Falls High School, Akins High School, Maypearl High School, North Lamar High School, Tom Moore High School, and University High School. Once again I want to extend congratulations to each of these schools and their students for a successful program in making it here with their vehicle, and a successful launch.
Tomorrow, Saturday May 16, there are 20 more launches scheduled. Following is the launch schedule which can also be downloaded and the SystemsGo website, which is www.systemsgo.org .
| Saturday, May 16, 2015 | ||
| School Name |
# 1st Level Tsiolkovsky |
# 2nd Level Oberth |
| Alamo Heights High School Colin Lang |
3 | |
| Fort Stockton High School (Midland) Jim Hatcher |
5 | |
| Henrietta High School Doug Underwood |
1 | 1 |
| McGregor High School Chris Kuhl |
2 | |
| Northwest High School Ashley Mitias |
4 | 2 |
| Union Grove High School Greg Park |
1 | 1 |
| 6 | ||
| Schools Launching | ||
| Totals | 13 | 7 |
| May 16th Total Rockets | 20 | |
Tomorrow is a very special day in our family in that our other wonderful daughter, Kasey Burow, turns 20. She is in the Navy, stationed in Norfolk, VA. She was also a STEM student and built and launched rockets here in Willow City as well with her classmates. She is now an Avionics Structural Mechanic, working on Sea Dragon Helicopters. She is planning to take courses through Embry Riddle University to pursue an Engineering Degree as well. We are so extremely proud of her and all she is doing. I hope you have a Happy Birthday tomorrow Kasey. We all love you. Don’t worry you will hear about it again tomorrow as well, I would never let you off the hook this easy on your birthday.
Look for more pictures from today’s launch on Facebook and be sure to come back for more high lights. Have a wonderful evening.
www.systemsgo.org as always is the place for more information on this program. Take the time to get your school involved, the future of your students will be greatly benefited.
On the Wings of Angels 