I have been getting involved on a student led project to build a satellite. The satellite will hold some DARPA provided payload and will be launched on the side of a Delta rocket next winter. The satellite is going to be small, about the size of a football and will weigh no more than a couple of kilograms. The team assembling it consists of about 15 students of all grade levels and majors. Right now we don’t really know what the satellite is going to do or what its mission will be. The project name is BarnacleSat because it will be launched in a capsule attached to the side of a Delta II rocket. I would point you in the direction of the BarnacleSat website, but it seems that they just finished installing Apache and don’t have it back up yet. UPDATE: Nevermind, it is already back up.
In other news I got back my first computer science test today. Considering the average score was very very low, I am proud of my 86%. However I completely disagree with the format of the test. The test was hand written so we did not have the use of a compiler or the internet. That is incredibly stupid. I can’t think of a time that I will be programming without a compiler and the internet. Tests should be in the format here is a problem, solve it with the use of a computer. Oh well.