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== SSI Overload ==  

= SSI Overload =  

So you've joined [https://ssi-teams.slack.com/join] Slack, maybe gone to a meeting or two, but you're not sure what you can do or what there even is to do with so many teams swirling around? Well you've come to right place! Below are all the projects each team is working on, what skills they utilize or where they're especially looking for help, and who you can contact to jump in! Think of this like a jobs listing page except that the jobs are always available and you apply by poking the person of contact and saying you want the job -- and it's probably yours.

So you've joined [https://ssi-teams.slack.com/join] Slack, maybe gone to a meeting or two, but you're not sure what you can do or what there even is to do with so many teams swirling around? Well you've come to right place! Below are all the projects each team is working on, what skills they utilize or where they're especially looking for help, and who you can contact to jump in! Think of this like a jobs listing page except that the jobs are always available and you apply by poking the person of contact and saying you want the job -- and it's probably yours.

As you can see from the length of this list, there will always be more SSI to do than you will have hours in a day, week, month, or year -- don't feel pressured to overextend yourself! If you have questions, are feeling overwhelmed, or just want to chat with someone, don't hesitate to reach out to a leadership member. ''SSI exists for, and because of, its members (that's you.) Your sanity, health, and overall well-being always come first.''

As you can see from the length of this list, there will always be more SSI to do than you will have hours in a day, week, month, or year -- don't feel pressured to overextend yourself! If you have questions, are feeling overwhelmed, or just want to chat with someone, don't hesitate to reach out to a leadership member. ''SSI exists for, and because of, its members (that's you.) Your sanity, health, and overall well-being always come first.''

= Mars =

== Mars ==

Team Leads: {{Slack-user|@shreya garg=Shreya Garg|@Kylie=Kylie Holland}}

Team Leads: {{Slack-user|@shreya garg=Shreya Garg|@Kylie=Kylie Holland}}

This subteam won an opportunity to send an experiment to the ISS via SPOCS (Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science), a NASA design competition.  We will send a payload that will test how BSC dries in microgravity aboard the International Space Station, which will provide valuable data to compare with ground experiments, hopefully shedding light on the material’s usage on the Moon and Mars.<span data-stringify-type="paragraph-break" class="c-mrkdwn__br"></span>Over the next year, we will process data and publish results from our ISS experiment. Additionally, we will finish designing our brick-making machine and start testing and iterating! This project would be particularly well suited for people interested in urban studies/housing, chemical engineering, materials science, MechE, EE, CS, and product design, as well as anyone who loved playing in mud puddles as a kid!

This subteam won an opportunity to send an experiment to the ISS via SPOCS (Student Payload Opportunity with Citizen Science), a NASA design competition.  We will send a payload that will test how BSC dries in microgravity aboard the International Space Station, which will provide valuable data to compare with ground experiments, hopefully shedding light on the material’s usage on the Moon and Mars.<span data-stringify-type="paragraph-break" class="c-mrkdwn__br"></span>Over the next year, we will process data and publish results from our ISS experiment. Additionally, we will finish designing our brick-making machine and start testing and iterating! This project would be particularly well suited for people interested in urban studies/housing, chemical engineering, materials science, MechE, EE, CS, and product design, as well as anyone who loved playing in mud puddles as a kid!

= Balloons =

== Balloons ==

'''Please see the [[Balloons]] page for more info.'''

'''Please see the [[Balloons]] page for more info.'''

== HABMC ==

=== HABMC ===

'''Please see the [https://ssi-wiki.stanford.edu/HABMC HABMC] page for more info.'''

'''Please see the [https://ssi-wiki.stanford.edu/HABMC HABMC] page for more info.'''

HABMC is SSI's in-house developed web-based High Altitude Balloon Mission Control (HABMC) platform.  From here, we can track our balloons all over the world, streaming live telemetry data from onboard sensors and controlling the balloons altitude and trajectory by sending commands.  Infinitely adaptable and expandable, HABMC allows balloons to launch a diverse set of payload types and receive data ''from'' anywhere in the world, ''to'' anywhere in the world.  HABMC can be found [https://habmc.stanfordssi.org/flight here.]

HABMC is SSI's in-house developed web-based High Altitude Balloon Mission Control (HABMC) platform.  From here, we can track our balloons all over the world, streaming live telemetry data from onboard sensors and controlling the balloons altitude and trajectory by sending commands.  Infinitely adaptable and expandable, HABMC allows balloons to launch a diverse set of payload types and receive data ''from'' anywhere in the world, ''to'' anywhere in the world.  HABMC can be found [https://habmc.stanfordssi.org/flight here.]

== Cycloon ==

=== Cycloon ===

'''Please see the [https://ssi-wiki.stanford.edu/Cycloon Cycloon] page for more info.'''  

'''Please see the [https://ssi-wiki.stanford.edu/Cycloon Cycloon] page for more info.'''  

Our task is exciting and ambitious, and a ton of cool challenges await. Want to design lightweight, power-optimized embedded systems? Have a ham radio license and ideas for scaling up data downlink? Interested in inventing new search and optimization algorithms? Just love meteorology and want to direct engineering efforts for a scientific objective? Can’t wait to see the day when the next NHC advisory means dozens of balloons launched within 48 hours? We can’t either! Join Cycloon to develop cutting-edge technology, perform important scientific research, and create a meaningful impact on the world!

Our task is exciting and ambitious, and a ton of cool challenges await. Want to design lightweight, power-optimized embedded systems? Have a ham radio license and ideas for scaling up data downlink? Interested in inventing new search and optimization algorithms? Just love meteorology and want to direct engineering efforts for a scientific objective? Can’t wait to see the day when the next NHC advisory means dozens of balloons launched within 48 hours? We can’t either! Join Cycloon to develop cutting-edge technology, perform important scientific research, and create a meaningful impact on the world!

== Balloonerang ==

=== Balloonerang ===

'''Please see the [https://ssi-wiki.stanford.edu/Balloonerang Balloonerang] page for more info.'''

'''Please see the [https://ssi-wiki.stanford.edu/Balloonerang Balloonerang] page for more info.'''

If you’re interested in CAD design, board fabrication, data visualization, aerodynamics, optimizing flight paths, or anything electronics, Balloonerang has a place for you to shine. Join this tight knit team to experience a little bit of everything: flight control algorithms, complex mechanical design, and hands-on electrical engineering experience.

If you’re interested in CAD design, board fabrication, data visualization, aerodynamics, optimizing flight paths, or anything electronics, Balloonerang has a place for you to shine. Join this tight knit team to experience a little bit of everything: flight control algorithms, complex mechanical design, and hands-on electrical engineering experience.

== ValBal ==

=== ValBal ===

'''Note: the below project is no longer active in SSI. Please see the [[Balloons]] page for an updated list of projects.'''

'''Note: the below project is no longer active in SSI. Please see the [[Balloons]] page for an updated list of projects.'''

ValBal (Valve and Ballast), is a world record-breaking high-altitude balloon payload that autonomously maintains a set altitude for days of flight by venting helium gas and dropping ballast. If you are interested in MechE, EE, CS, Physics, or even MatSci or ChemE, there's a place for you on the ValBal team!

ValBal (Valve and Ballast), is a world record-breaking high-altitude balloon payload that autonomously maintains a set altitude for days of flight by venting helium gas and dropping ballast. If you are interested in MechE, EE, CS, Physics, or even MatSci or ChemE, there's a place for you on the ValBal team!

*MatSci/ChemE -- '''Lead: Paige Brown'''

*MatSci/ChemE -- '''Lead: Paige Brown'''

ValBal has a '''fatal problem''': latex balloons are quickly weakened by UV radiation and ozone at high altitudes, leading to mission ending failure in just a few days. If this sounds like an interesting problem to you, and you want to be an integral part of helping us circumnavigate the world someday, come help us figure out how to strengthen or alter the latex balloon with s c i e n c e. Contact {{slack-user|paigebrown}} if you're interested!

ValBal has a '''fatal problem''': latex balloons are quickly weakened by UV radiation and ozone at high altitudes, leading to mission ending failure in just a few days. If this sounds like an interesting problem to you, and you want to be an integral part of helping us circumnavigate the world someday, come help us figure out how to strengthen or alter the latex balloon with s c i e n c e. Contact {{slack-user|paigebrown}} if you're interested!

= Rockets =

== Rockets ==

== Daedalus ==

=== Daedalus ===

Daedalus is our suite of technology development projects. The work done here pushes forwards on our long-term plan for a space shot. Each project will involve some mechanical, electrical, programming and simulations work, so feel free to join any one of them - but each focuses on a different aspect of rocketry.  

Daedalus is our suite of technology development projects. The work done here pushes forwards on our long-term plan for a space shot. Each project will involve some mechanical, electrical, programming and simulations work, so feel free to join any one of them - but each focuses on a different aspect of rocketry.  

** Signals - RF & transmission tech.

** Signals - RF & transmission tech.

== Competition (IREC/SA Cup) ==

=== Competition (IREC/SA Cup) ===

* Structures, '''Lead: Will'''

* Structures, '''Lead: Will'''

** Design and test all airframe hardware

** Design and test all airframe hardware

** Inform the decision making of the team with analysis of motors, weights and design

** Inform the decision making of the team with analysis of motors, weights and design

= Satellites =

== Satellites ==

===🌲🛰Sequoia 🛰🌲===

===🌲🛰Sequoia 🛰🌲===

**'''The People To Talk to''' Connor, TaNia

**'''The People To Talk to''' Connor, TaNia

= Biology =

== Biology ==

== Enzymatic DNA Synthesis Methods ==  

=== Enzymatic DNA Synthesis Methods ===  

'''Lead: Michael Uttmark''' {{slack-user|uttmark}}

'''Lead: Gwyn Uttmark''' {{slack-user|uttmark}}

** Test commercial blocking groups for compatibility with [[Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase]]

** Test commercial blocking groups for compatibility with [[Terminal Deoxynucleotidyl Transferase]]

** Chemically synthesize nucleotides with different reversible blocking groups

** Chemically synthesize nucleotides with different reversible blocking groups

** Design and test your own synthesis method!

** Design and test your own synthesis method!

== Sequence Verification ==

=== Sequence Verification ===

** Execute and optimize any one of our existing verification procedures--[[Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis]], [[Pyrosequencing]], or [[Ligation and Sequencing]]

** Execute and optimize any one of our existing verification procedures--[[Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis]], [[Pyrosequencing]], or [[Ligation and Sequencing]]

** Adapt LCMS or MALDI-TOF procedures for detecting single-base addition or determining the sequence of a sample.  

** Adapt LCMS or MALDI-TOF procedures for detecting single-base addition or determining the sequence of a sample.  

** Come up with new ways to verify single-base addition to a starting strand of DNA

** Come up with new ways to verify single-base addition to a starting strand of DNA

== Microfluidic Device Design ==

=== Microfluidic Device Design ===

** Design and program an [[Electrowetting on Dielectric]] microfluidic PCB

** Design and program an [[Electrowetting on Dielectric]] microfluidic PCB

** Simulate and test how a microfluidic system would work in microgravity

** Simulate and test how a microfluidic system would work in microgravity

** Build testing rigs for DNA synthesis methods that are needed for experiments in lab

** Build testing rigs for DNA synthesis methods that are needed for experiments in lab

= Policy =

== Policy ==

Outer space is cold, dark, and dangerous, yet people keep risking lives and spending billions of dollars to venture into its depths. Space projects have historically been some of the most dangerous and time consuming human endeavors ever attempted. So… why do we do it?

Outer space is cold, dark, and dangerous, yet people keep risking lives and spending billions of dollars to venture into its depths. Space projects have historically been some of the most dangerous and time consuming human endeavors ever attempted. So… why do we do it?

SSI’s Policy Team investigates the politics of space. Whether you are an economist, philosopher, engineer, or anything else, whether you are fascinated by today’s rapidly changing space industry or wish you were around for the first moon landing, Policy Team is the place for you. Join us for our weekly general meetings to discuss the trends and issues of the space industry, or take part in one (or more!) of our subteams below! The future of space is in your hands.

SSI’s Policy Team investigates the politics of space. Whether you are an economist, philosopher, engineer, or anything else, whether you are fascinated by today’s rapidly changing space industry or wish you were around for the first moon landing, Policy Team is the place for you. Join us for our weekly general meetings to discuss the trends and issues of the space industry, or take part in one (or more!) of our subteams below! The future of space is in your hands.

== UN Proposal & Citizens for Space Exploration ==

=== UN Proposal & Citizens for Space Exploration ===

Ever dreamed of visiting the United Nations or meeting with senators in Washington DC to discuss hot topics in outer space? SSI’s Policy Team provides incredible opportunities to delve into the intriguing, controversial, and challenging world of space policy.  

Ever dreamed of visiting the United Nations or meeting with senators in Washington DC to discuss hot topics in outer space? SSI’s Policy Team provides incredible opportunities to delve into the intriguing, controversial, and challenging world of space policy.  

Last year, eight students from the Policy Team worked with the nonprofit [https://www.forallmoonkind.org/ For All Moonkind] to write a proposal about the preservation of human heritage in space, and the paper is going to be published by the Astrosociology Research Institute. Normally these students would get to travel to Vienna, Austria and present their research to the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space; although we weren’t able to last year due to COVID, we plan on going again this year!

Last year, eight students from the Policy Team worked with the nonprofit [https://www.forallmoonkind.org/ For All Moonkind] to write a proposal about the preservation of human heritage in space, and the paper is going to be published by the Astrosociology Research Institute. Normally these students would get to travel to Vienna, Austria and present their research to the UN’s Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space; although we weren’t able to last year due to COVID, we plan on going again this year!

== Podcast ==

=== Podcast ===

Space policy is a large, complex, intergenerational conversation — and we want you to join! Our weekly space news podcast “This Week in Space” (check us out on Spotify or iTunes!) addresses what's currently going on in the space industry through discussions among team members and interviews with distinguished members of the space industry. We currently have listeners in 25 countries and are looking to keep expanding!

Space policy is a large, complex, intergenerational conversation — and we want you to join! Our weekly space news podcast “This Week in Space” (check us out on Spotify or iTunes!) addresses what's currently going on in the space industry through discussions among team members and interviews with distinguished members of the space industry. We currently have listeners in 25 countries and are looking to keep expanding!

== Book Club ==

=== Book Club ===

Love space related pop culture? Interested in how science fiction eventually becomes science fact? Eager to meet sci-fi authors? Just looking for a place to vibe with really cool people? Come join our book club! We read sci fi novels and discuss them at our biweekly meetings.

Love space related pop culture? Interested in how science fiction eventually becomes science fact? Eager to meet sci-fi authors? Just looking for a place to vibe with really cool people? Come join our book club! We read sci fi novels and discuss them at our biweekly meetings.

= Operations =

== Operations ==

== Community ==

=== Community ===

* Come up with a theme for Special Dinner and make decorations (like a model Falcon 9!)

* Come up with a theme for Special Dinner and make decorations (like a model Falcon 9!)

* Help {{slack-user|dragland}} run SSI general dinners

* Help {{slack-user|dragland}} run SSI general dinners

* Plan and run general community events like Trivia Night, Pathfinder, and Movie Night

* Plan and run general community events like Trivia Night, Pathfinder, and Movie Night

== Diversity ==

=== Diverssity ===

* Find diverse speakers to bring to campus

* Find diverse speakers to bring to campus

* Organize diversity mixers (including with other engineering groups)

* Organize diversity mixers (including with other engineering groups)

* Help {{slack-user|ruqayyatoorawa}} run workshops

* Help {{slack-user|ruqayyatoorawa}} run workshops

== Events ==

=== Events ===

* Find an interesting company and arrange a tour or talk

* Find an interesting company and arrange a tour or talk

* Help handle logistics of an existing talk, like by meeting an astronaut and walking him to Durand 450

* Help handle logistics of an existing talk, like by meeting an astronaut and walking him to Durand 450

* Give a CEO or Venture Capitalist a tour of ESIII

* Give a CEO or Venture Capitalist a tour of ESIII

== Finance ==  

=== Finance ===  

* Complete reimbursements  

* Complete reimbursements  

* Apply for grants & seek out new sponsors

* Apply for grants & seek out new sponsors

== Marketing ==

=== Marketing ===

* Design awesome swag (t-shirts, jackets, posters)

* Design awesome swag (t-shirts, jackets, posters)

* Reach out to reporters

* Reach out to reporters

* Designing flyers for upcoming talks

* Designing flyers for upcoming talks

* Going on launches to take pictures and videos

* Going on launches to take pictures and videos

== Outreach ==

=== Outreach ===

* Start discussions with local highschools and their science clubs

* Start discussions with local highschools and their science clubs

* Organize or join an existing trip to a local school

* Organize or join an existing trip to a local school

== Sponsors ==

=== Sponsors ===

* Pursue a sponsorship (we'll walk you through how!)

* Pursue a sponsorship (we'll walk you through how!)

* Compile a list of bay-area aerospace companies

* Compile a list of bay-area aerospace companies

== Website ==

=== Website ===

* Overhaul the budgeting system

* Overhaul the budgeting system

* Give the sponsors page dynamic content

* Give the sponsors page dynamic content

* Manage this very wiki

* Manage this very wiki

* Manage our public and internal websites

* Manage our public and internal websites

== Workspace ==

=== Workspace ===

* Make space-themed artwork to decorate ESIII

* Make space-themed artwork to decorate ESIII

* Plant more herbs

* Plant more herbs