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Team Summit 2013
April 12, 2013
In early April Robert and Sven went to 2013 Team Summit. This year it was in Santiago de Chile, hosted by fellow GLXP team Angelicum. All 23 current GLXP teams have to attend the annual Team Summits to discuss status, progress and changes to the competitions. Beside that it also a good opportunity to network with other space enthusiasts and spy on other teams :-). Besides the X-PRIZE Foundation (XPF), the managing organization, main sponsor Google, co-sponsor Shell, and several representatives of the Chilean space industry were also there.
- Aram Khalili
Axe Apollo Space Academy - Last Weekend to Vote
February 16, 2013
Being Part-Time-Scientists, we are always interested in space exploration, especially those that involve civilians like us. And particularly when it is ONE OF US! To that end, we would like to direct your attention to the Axe Apollo Space Academy and ask that you vote for Part-Time Scientists’ own Tom Schachner.
As explained on the contest website ".. Axe is searching the world for a few brave civilians for the opportunity of a lifetime - a trip to space..."
The winner will have the chance to fly 103km up to space with SXC, and we need your help! We would like to get as many people as possible to vote for Tom Schachner!
Remember, a vote for Tom is a vote for Part-Time Scientists everywhere!
- Frank Fomby
Campus Party is "Buzz’in"
January 31, 2013
Buzz Aldrin at Campus Party Brazil
The team is having a great adventure at Campus Party Brazil. Here’s a post from Part-Time-Scientists’ own Wes Faler.
I wish my cell phone really worked here – I actually miss live Tweeting observations.
- Wes Faler
Campus Party 2013!
January 28, 2013
Hell yeah, it's a party!
We've sent three members of the Part-Time-Scientist team to Brazil for this week's Campus Party in São Paulo. For those of you who are not familiar with Campus Party, it is a week-long global technology festival. According to their website, "Since 1997, Campus Party has brought young, passionate technologists throughout Europe, Latin and South America together to collaborate, learn and promote innovation." There will be thousands of campers (campuseros) networking and participating in lectures, workshops and competitions.
- Frank Fomby
Campus Party Brazil!
January 17, 2013
If you are heading to Campus Party Brazil 2013 (Jan 28 - Feb 3), come and see us!
For those of you not familiar with Campus Party, it is an annual week-long, 24 hour a day technology festival and LAN Party held in several countries.
The Boot Camp or Camp Robotics is a traditional activity at Campus Party, but for this edition we have prepared a very special surprise. The scheme is the same as ever: six campers will be selected during the event to work in teams developing software and programming robots that can end up on the moon in search of water or minerals. Yes, the moon!
That’s because this year’s Boot Camp will be supervised by Part-Time-Scientist Team Members Cládio Martins, Wesley Faler and Thomas Kunze. And you have the chance to work shoulder to shoulder with them throughout the event.
To participate in the selection, you must be a registered camper in the event and send your CV to our own mission members to the addresses bootcamp@ptscientists.com . All Resumes MUST BE SENT IN ENGLISH. On 01/25/2013 we will disclose here the list of selected people. You don’t want to miss this chance, right?
- Frank Fomby
Founders and Entrepreneur Days
October 29, 2012
Last week Robert and Mario visited the "Founders and Entrepreneur Days" at an old abandoned military airport: Tempelhof. You know, the one famous for the ‘Luftbrücke’ or airlift that supplied the western part of Berlin back in the cold war days.
- Mike Doornbos
Hurricane Sandy
October 29, 2012
As you know, we’re an international team. Several of us, myself included are on the East Coast of the US where this monster is about to hit.
I’m in the North Carolina mountains at 3000 feet (915 meters) so I’m not in danger from flooding, but we’ve got high wind and power problems. Many, many of our friends and family are in the direct path of this storm today and may even be in danger.
- Mike Doornbos
Team Summit 2012 - Arrival and Preps
June 1, 2012
Every year all current teams of the Google Lunar X PRIZE gather for the Team Summit. This makes it a large meeting where everyone is given the opportunity to talk about the last year and discuss the upcoming one. It’s the only time in the year where every team is required to attend; hence it gives an opportunity to talk to everyone involved.
- Daniel Ziegenberg
We need your help!
April 22, 2012
Our team member Cornelius Krüger needs our help. He is a student at the university, and for his studies as well as for our work, he urgently needs a new laptop so he can continue to work with computationally very complex simulations. Because he is a student, his resources are limited, and the PTS cannot pay for his either, because the PTS are a volunteer organization.
Hence he applied for a grant with Absolventa. Absolventa makes a limited amount of money available for grants, and the awards are selected by online voting. Because of this, we need for as many of you as possible to vote for Cornelius’ grant application to help is chances of getting it.
Voting is done via Facebook account and goes like this:
- pull up Cornelius’ application,
- click on "Vote" (german: "Stimme ab") near the bottom,
- and allow access for the Facebook application that records the vote.
Many Thanks!
- Daniel Ziegenberg
Happy April Fools’ day!
April 2, 2012
Originally we didn’t want to tell you "the Obvious", but due to some serious email requests we really feel the urge to clarify and tell you that yesterday’s blog post was an April Fools’ prank.
We have NOT changed our mission goals and we do NOT want to terraform our beloved moon. There are NO plans to "generate" an artificial lunar atmosphere with the help of nuclear power and we are NOT going to descend from the lunar orbit with a parachute, but with rocket thrusters, like everybody would do. We’re still developing our four-wheeled rover Asimov and he’s the one who’s going cruise on the lunar surface, NOT a hovercraft.
We hope you loved and laughed reading yesterday’s blog post. We also had fun reading others April Fools’ jokes like the one about another Space Shuttle mission »STS-136« using Atlantis to support the latest ATV Missions to the International Space Station (only available in German language, sorry). We’re looking forward to next year’s 1st April and hope to read good stories again!
Yours, Part-Time Scientists
- Daniel Ziegenberg
