Columbia Space Initiative

Hello Friends and Alumni of CSI, First, some introductions. My name is Moises Mata, and I am one of the newly elected Co-Presidents of CSI, alongside Sarine Mardirosian (Co-President), Ashika Gullapalli (Treasurer), and Dyahatou Saanon (Secretary). We are super excited to be stepping into this role and are eager to work with the rest of CSI's incoming leadership team to build on the club's many accomplishments from this past year! Continuing to support the growth and success of CSI starts with funding our 13 active projects. To that end, we are excited to announce that—for the first time ever—we are participating in Columbia Engineering’s annual Pi Day fundraiser! From now until Pi Day (March 14th!), you can support the club in all that we do through individual and corporate contributions. This year, your Pi Day donations will directly impact: Hybrid Rocket Launch:?Our rocketry team is one of the few collegiate teams in the country to designs and builds hybrid fuel rockets. This year, they have stepped up their technical efforts by incorporating a liquid oxygen oxidizer! Your support enables us to send more students to compete yearly in the Friends Of Amateur Rocketry Competition (FAR-OUT), showcasing Columbia’s engineering talent on a national stage. CubeSat Launch:?Help us make Columbia history! Your donations will directly fund the purchase of critical hardware and support the extensive preparation needed for the launch of Columbia’s?first ever?satellite in 2026, with a second satellite slated to launch in 2027. NASA Competitions:?We are thrilled to have TWO of our NASA competition teams (Micro-g and SUITS)?accepted as finalists?in their respective prestigious challenges this year (with a potential for three more)! Your donations directly support prototyping these projects and allowing students to present at NASA laboratories across the country. Outreach: We’re committed to giving back to our community and inspiring the next generation of STEM enthusiasts. Your support allows us to bring engaging STEM education to NYC public schools, making a real difference in the lives of middle and high schoolers. More!:?From space microbiology to high-altitude balloon launches to cleaning up our local waterways, our diverse projects span all disciplines, offering students from?any?background the chance to find their place in aerospace. Your support significantly impacts CSI's 250+ active student members by providing invaluable, once-in-a-lifetime experiences to our students. To hear directly from our members about how your donations make a difference, please view the video below. (Video Credit: Claudio I. Solano & Jorge Casas) If you are interested in supporting us or learning more about what we currently do, please visit the link below to help us achieve new heights. https://lnkd.in/e34un6UV Ad Astra, Moises, Sarine, Dyahatou, Ashika, and the rest of the CSI team

Hello Friends and Alumni of CSI, First, some introductions. My name is Moises Mata, and I am one of the newly elected Co-Presidents of CSI, alongside Sarine Mardirosian (Co-President), Ashika Gullapalli (Treasurer), and Dyahatou Saanon (Secretary). We are super excited to be stepping into this role and are eager to work with the rest of CSI's incoming leadership team to build on the club's many accomplishments from this past year! Continuing to support the growth and success of CSI starts with funding our 13 active projects. To that end, we are excited to announce that—for the first time ever—we are participating in Columbia Engineering’s annual Pi Day fundraiser! From now until Pi Day (March 14th!), you can support the club in all that we do through individual and corporate contributions. This year, your Pi Day donations will directly impact: Hybrid Rocket Launch:?Our rocketry team is one of the few collegiate teams in the country to designs and builds hybrid fuel rockets. This year, they have stepped up their technical efforts by incorporating a liquid oxygen oxidizer! Your support enables us to send more students to compete yearly in the Friends Of Amateur Rocketry Competition (FAR-OUT), showcasing Columbia’s engineering talent on a national stage. CubeSat Launch:?Help us make Columbia history! Your donations will directly fund the purchase of critical hardware and support the extensive preparation needed for the launch of Columbia’s?first ever?satellite in 2026, with a second satellite slated to launch in 2027. NASA Competitions:?We are thrilled to have TWO of our NASA competition teams (Micro-g and SUITS)?accepted as finalists?in their respective prestigious challenges this year (with a potential for three more)! Your donations directly support prototyping these projects and allowing students to present at NASA laboratories across the country. Outreach: We’re committed to giving back to our community and inspiring the next generation of STEM enthusiasts. Your support allows us to bring engaging STEM education to NYC public schools, making a real difference in the lives of middle and high schoolers. More!:?From space microbiology to high-altitude balloon launches to cleaning up our local waterways, our diverse projects span all disciplines, offering students from?any?background the chance to find their place in aerospace. Your support significantly impacts CSI's 250+ active student members by providing invaluable, once-in-a-lifetime experiences to our students. To hear directly from our members about how your donations make a difference, please view the video below. (Video Credit: Claudio I. Solano & Jorge Casas) If you are interested in supporting us or learning more about what we currently do, please visit the link below to help us achieve new heights. https://lnkd.in/e34un6UV Ad Astra, Moises, Sarine, Dyahatou, Ashika, and the rest of the CSI team

Congrats to Cody O'Ferrall, S. Marcus Lam, and the whole AQUAS team for all the fantastic work they have done this year!

FUTEK is supporting the Columbia Space Initiative Rocketry team for a second year as they advance their engineering capabilities. This year, the team aimed for a higher target altitude with a significantly taller rocket. To achieve this, they integrated our IDA100 Strain gauge amplifier with digital an analog output and two versatile LSB350 tension and compression S-beam load cells, known for their varied capacities and configurations. These tools provided crucial data to lead the CSI Rocketry team to a new school record. We extend our best wishes to the team for this year's project and look forward to following the developments of the 2024-2025 rocket. Check out this year's rocket here: https://lnkd.in/gAWZmAre

FUTEK is supporting the Columbia Space Initiative Rocketry team for a second year as they advance their engineering capabilities. This year, the team aimed for a higher target altitude with a significantly taller rocket. To achieve this, they integrated our IDA100 Strain gauge amplifier with digital an analog output and two versatile LSB350 tension and compression S-beam load cells, known for their varied capacities and configurations. These tools provided crucial data to lead the CSI Rocketry team to a new school record. We extend our best wishes to the team for this year's project and look forward to following the developments of the 2024-2025 rocket. Check out this year's rocket here: https://lnkd.in/gAWZmAre

Hello CSI LinkedIn community! As we gear up for the academic year starting in a few weeks, it seems like some updates are in order. We wanted to share our most recent detailed mission portfolio (which you'll find attached to this post), but also wanted to take the time to highlight a few of our members’ major accomplishments during the past few months. This year, we’ve: - Launched our first high-altitude balloons since before the pandemic, allowing us to return multiple hours of flight data - Successfully launched and recovered a hybrid-fuel rocket at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry: Oxidizers Uninhibited Tournament (FAR-OUT) (for which we received a first place presentation award based on the work of our fluids team) - Flew a biological experiment on a parabolic flight, testing the isolation of mitochondria for future experimentation - Were named national finalists in three separate collegiate NASA competitions (SUITS, MicroG-Next, and BlueSkies) - Won first place in the International Space Elevator Consortium Academic Challenge for a policy proposal on space elevators - Had six students listed as co-authors on a Blood-Brain Biomarkers Manuscript - Welcomed a number of amazing speakers including astronauts, space policy experts, astronomers, and researchers in space medicine - Presented in Japan at the Astronomical Instrumentation Conference on the work of our CubeSat team - Won Columbia’s Robert D. Lilley Award for the aerospace outreach work we did with >1,000 middle and high school students in NYC Of course, none of these successes would be possible without the incredible support of a huge number of members of the Columbia Engineering Community, especially in the engineering dean’s office, Columbia University Mechanical Engineering, and at Undergraduate Student Life. We also want to give a huge shoutout to our sponsors within and outside the University, including NASA New York Space Grant Consortium, NASA Education Office, Columbia Engineering Outreach, FUTEK, Ansys, and Kulite Semiconductor Products Inc.. Thank you all for continuing to make hands-on engineering education accessible to our students, and for enabling us to continue to grow! Looking forward to the year ahead, and to seeing the new heights to which CSI will climb. Ad Astra, Will Specht,?Kathryn Lampo,?Chloe Jones, and?Moises Mata CSI Executive Board 2024-25

Well said Theo - it’s been a pleasure co-leading with you, our whole team is just incredible!