McGill Rocket Team
McConnell Engineering Building Rm 7, 3480 University St. H3A 0E9 Montreal, QC, Canada

We would like to thank BlueMed(@bluemedshoecovers) for their support this year! Thanks to their help our aerostructure subteam will be able to manufacture all our composites safely!

WE DID IT! For the first time in MRT history, we have reached our Seeds of Change goal ! An immense thank you to everyone who donated to our campaign! Without your support, it would be impossible for us to accomplish all our projects and reach for the sky! There's still time to donate if you haven't already! McGill will match all donations until midnight! You can find our Seeds of Change page here! ... https://www.mcgill.ca/seedsofc/project/mcgill-rocket-team-0 #McGill24 #mcgillalumni #mcgillseeds #mcgillengineering

Every year, our team extensively uses our 3D printer to manufacture structures to house our avionics and payload components. Your support towards our Seeds of Change campaign is crucial to help us procure the filament we need to manufacture 3D printed components! You can find our Seeds of Change page here! https://www.mcgill.ca/seedsofc/project/mcgill-rocket-team-0 #McGill24 #mcgillseeds #mcgillalumni

Our Aerostructures subteam is responsible for the rocket’s structural components. This includes designing and manufacturing the composite airframe, most internal structures, as well as assembling and finishing the rocket fuselage. This year, the subteam has been extensively developing prepreg, a new composite processing method. Fun fact: prepreg needs to be stored at -18 oC to preserve its material properties. You can find our Seeds of Change page here! https://www.mcgill.ca.../seedsofc/project/mcgill-rocket-team-0 By donating to our Seeds of Change campaign, you are contributing to the successful development of our prepreg project! #McGill24 #mcgilseeds

To apply, fill this out before midnight today and we'll send you the application form! https://forms.gle/ukH6fn7A2XAVNauw7 For lack of a competition in summer 2020, here's a glimpse at what we did last year before the shutdown

We are already presenting our last 101 tutorial! Come join us for Avionics 101 tonight from 6:00 to 7:30pm EST! https://mcgill.webex.com/mcgill/j.php... Don't forget to fill out our application form! DEADLINE: September 19th, 5:00 PM EST To get the form: https://forms.gle/abN6BFfX6DexrJrC8

Don't forget that tonight we have our Composites 101 6:00-7:30pm EST and our Recovery 101 7:30-9:00pm EST! https://mcgill.webex.com/mcgill/j.php Don't forget to fill out the application form if you want to join the team! https://forms.gle/ukH6fn7A2XAVNauw7 DEADLINE: September 19th, 5:00 pm ... See you all tonight!

Don't forget today's activities! 1. MIAE first event of the year from 6:00pm-7:30pm EST where we will be presenting the team and answering questions! https://www.facebook.com/events/736003840298632/ 2. Propulsion 101 from 7:30-9:30pm EST where you will have the opportunity to learn about all the basics of a rocket engine! (It will be recorded!)https://mcgill.webex.com/mcgill/j.php... Make sure to fill out our form if you want the recordings and access to the application form! https://forms.gle/mjsY65oMi44Ex5Q77 See you all tonight!

A little reminder that we have our Payload 101 tutorial tonight! Make sure to attend if you are interested in joining one of our payload projects! See you all at 6:00pm EST! (Yes, it will be recorded ) https://mcgill.webex.com/mcgill/j.php Also, don't forget that our application form is out! Deadline: September 19t, 5:00pm EST!... https://forms.gle/mjsY65oMi44Ex5Q77 See more

Join us Tomorrow at 6:00pm EST for MIAE's first event of the year! Come learn more about what MIAE has to offer and ask all your questions about our team!

Today, come to our Instagram to meet our leads and ask your questions about the team and our recruitment process!

Up next is our subteam 101 tutorials! Come join our leads to learn all the basics of the different subteams! If you feel like it, you can come to all tutorials, but we strongly suggest that you at least attend the tutorial of the subteam you want to join! The events will be held on Webex, so please log in with your Mcgill email when you will join the meeting!... Payload 101: Monday Sept. 14th, 6:00-7:00pm https://mcgill.webex.com/mcgill/j.php Propulsion 101: Tuesday Sept. 15th, 7:30-9:30pm https://mcgill.webex.com/mcgill/j.php Composite 101: Wednesday Sept. 16th, 6:00-7:30pm Recovery 101: Wednesday Sept. 16th, 7:30-9:00pm https://mcgill.webex.com/mcgill/j.php Avionics 101: Thursday Sept. 17th, 6:00-7:30pm https://mcgill.webex.com/mcgill/j.php

Our application form is out! Fill this form to receive the application form! DEADLINE: September 19th, 5:00pm EST... No late applications will be accepted! https://forms.gle/6h3sLvZHtrQd4rW4A

Don't forget that we have Rocketry 101 tonight! Please log in 5-10 min in advance if possible! We hope to see you all there!

Come meet us at booth 603 on September 9-10 from 4:00-8:00 pm EST! Our members will be there to answer all your questions about the team and share their rocketry stories with you!

Are you interested in joining the team? Did you ever wonder how rockets work? Join us for Rocketry 101, our crash course on rocketry basics on September 10th 6:00-8:30pm EST. The event will be followed by a Q&A session! The event will be held on Webex, so please log in with your McGill email when you will join the meeting if you want to have access:... https://mcgill.webex.com/mcgill/j.php The session will be recorded, so don't worry if you cannot make it! Just make sure to fill out our interest form so that you can be added to our mailing list, where we will send you any relevant resources (including recordings)! https://forms.gle/YapysxnezjTc9Daj8

Check out the McGill Rocket Team description in the extracurricular section of the Plumber's Ledger to learn a little bit more about us! While you're there, you can also try to solve a little Sudoku to de-stress during this back to school period!

Don't forget that we have our info session tonight at 6:00pm. We can't wait to see you all!

We are pleased to announce our first event of the year, our online info session! To learn more about the team and meet our leads, come join us on September 2nd from 6:00-7:30pm EST. We will have a short presentation followed by a Q&A session! The event will be held on Webex, so please log in with your McGill email when you will join the meeting: https://mcgill.webex.com/mcgill/j.php

Interested in joining the team this year? Fill out this form to be put on our mailing list where we'll keep you up to date with our recruitment info sessions and activities!

Have you ever wondered which subteam would be the best fit for you? Now is your chance to find out with our non-official subteam quiz! Fill it out to find out where you belong, for there's nothing hidden in your head that the sorting quiz can't see. So try it and it will tell you where you ought to be!

Today, we close our presentation with the Payload subteam! The Payload subteam is in charge of designing a scientific experiment to ride on the rocket! We work with several domains of engineering and science to design an apparatus to accommodate the experiment. We typically study biological processes, but we work together to come up with new ideas and experiments. Since the Payload is multidisciplinary, we tend to have a diverse set of members from the engineering and science faculties! Hopefully our work will help us better understand the systems we study!

Say hello to our propulsion subteam! Propulsion designs and tests the rocket's motor and all supporting components to integrate it in the flight vehicle. The subteam is also responsible for the Rocket Team's engine test site, located at McGill's MacDonald Campus, where we designed and built a facility to test our hybrid rocket motors. Tasks we do include infrastructure design and manufacturing, test data collection and analysis, flight motor design, plumbing delivery system design and much more ! Join propulsion if you love learning and applying multidisciplinary knowledge as required by the different tasks we undertake! Here's a brief preview of the infrastructure manufacturing work we do:

Thursday is Logistics day! Logistics people are the heart of the team. Responsible for designing merch, editing videos, organizing socials, and planning outreach events, they are the link between the team and the rest of the world. If you are creative, organized or like to meet new people, and want to learn about rocketry on in a more casual way, you will fit right in with our logistics folks!

Today, we present the Aerostructure-Recovery subteam! Aerostructures and Recovery have merged as one subteam for this year! Aerostructures is in charge of designing, manufacturing and testing the rocket’s airframe. From the nose cone to the fins, we make sure that our composite material parts are of the best quality with our Vacuum-Assisted Resin Infusion process. Aerostructure members have good design skills and want to learn how to craft with their hands.... The recovery division ensures that we retrieve our rocket in good condition after launch by designing and manufacturing our ejection system and our parachutes, which are then respectively tested in a vacuum blast chamber and a high-altitude balloon going up to 30 000 ft! Recovery tasks are very multidisciplinary and thus require a lot of creativity and resourcefulness from our members.

Hello future members! To help you decide which subteam is the best fit for you, we will be presenting all of them this week! First, we have Avionics!... Avionics designs the critical flight electronics which include providing power to electrical devices in the rocket, sending important flight data obtained from different sensors on the rocket to our people on the ground, and ensuring that the rocket body separates at apogee. Our members learn to code, prototype electrical circuits, interact with different sensors, and much more, striving for reliability! Our work help the team reach greater heights each year!

We have the pleasure to announce that the team will be back in action this Fall and will be welcoming new members! Our leads worked hard all summer to prepare for online training! The official recruitement period will start soon so stay tuned In the mean time, we invite you to follow us on Facebook and Instagram, and to enjoy this lovely video presenting the team!

As you can see, our propulsion members are dying to get back to work at our hybrid engine test site! (taken in Fall 2019)

Happy Canada Day to all our fellow Canadians!

Happy St-Jean-Baptiste, Quebec's national holiday!! Thanks RockÉTS for bringing back good memories from SAC 2019!

Day 11: Farewell SAC 2020! Today would be the last day of our annual road trip to New Mexico! We want to say a big thank you to everyone who helped us this year and to all the team members that put time and effort into this awesome project!... See you next year at Spaceport America Cup 2021!

Day 10: Sleeping Beauties Rocketry is a very tiring activity as demonstrated by this collage of our team members napping in the desert!

Day 9: 5 Years of Rocketry! This year would have been our participation to Spaceport America Cup! In five years, we completed a total of 7 rockets (and a half)! ... 2015- Peregrine 2016- Peregrine II 2017- Aeris & Stella 2018- Blanche & Stella II 2019- Caladan 2020- Aramis #MRTThrowbackWeek #McGillTakeOffOnline

Day 8: Proud to be Canadian No greater pride at competition than singing the Canadian national anthem down in New Mexico with our fellow teams from across the nation. #ProudCanadians #MRTThrowbackWeek #McGillTakeOffOnline... (2018) RockÉTS, Oronos Polytechnique, UBC Rocket, Waterloo Rocketry, Groupe Aérospatial de l'Université Laval - GAUL, UVic Rocketry, Queen's Rocket Engineering Team, UOttawa Rocketry, Space Concordia - Rocketry Division, The University of Windsor Rocketry Team, Western Rocketry, Ryerson Rocketry Club, CU InSpace,

Day 7: Recovery! Take out your binoculars and sun hats, we’re going hunting for rockets! Being out in the field for hours is draining, but it’s always an amazing and safe experience thanks to MCC and the rest of the awesome ESRA staff! #McGillTakeOffOnline #MRTThrowbackWeek

Day 6 : Launch Day Part 3 We have a clear range and a clear sky.... to rewatch some old launch pictures! Here is a great shot of our 3rd rocket Aeris taking off in the New Mexico desert. #McGillTakeOffOnline #MRTThrowback

Day 6: Launch Day Part 2 After setting up the igniter, amid radio chatter back to the ground station to check our avionics, we're preparing to leave the launch pad! #MRTThrowbackWeek #McGillTakeOffOnline

Day 6: Launch Day The countdown to our virtual launch has started! Here’s the team driving Stella to the launch pad at SAC 2017. #McGillTakeOffOnline #MRTThrowbackWeek

Day 5 : Judging time! The judging panel is always hard at work going over every team’s design and safety requirements before, during flight and in recovery. Thank you Experimental Sounding Rocket Association for your continuous dedication in making comp as safe and enjoyable as possible! #McGillTakeOffOnline #MRTThrowback

Day 4 : Conference Day One of the most anticipated day at competition, Conference Day is all about discovering innovative designs and engaging with other teams from around the world!! #ThrowbackTuesday #McGillTakeOffOnline

Day 3: Remembering Utah 2015 #Throwback to our team's first IREC experience, where we launched our first two rockets and learned many practical lessons! #McGillTakeOffOnline #MRTThrowbackWeek

Day 2: The Gateway to the WEST Hello St-Louis! A traditional landmark to look out for in our annual roadtrip to SAC! #McGillTakeOffOnline #MRTThrowbackWeek #SAC Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (2019)

Since competition is cancelled this year, we've decided to instead travel back in time to our old competitions, bringing you along for our trip down operations memory lane--and the convoy leaves today! Follow our online journey through the States and the New Mexico desert for a rocketry blast to the past! #McGillTakeOffOnline #MRTThrowbackWeek Experimental Sounding Rocket Association

This week is around the time when we would be preparing to compete with other universities around the world in the Spaceport America Cup. Even if we couldn't compete this year due to the ongoing pandemic, we would like to thank our sponsors and donors for their generous and continuous support throughout the year with this special video! Our goal of encouraging student-led design advancements in rocketry wouldn't be possible without your help. We also want to send a special thank you to our Seeds of Change donors, your help will allow us to keep competing in the years to come! Thank you for helping us achieve our rocketry dreams, and see you soon with more exciting #aerospace activities to come!

In light of McGill's recent decision to bring all incoming university courses online for the fall semester, we are continuing our work towards providing an accessible and inclusive platform for students to engage in rocketry and aerospace together! Join us next semester on our social media channels and website for update videos, research progress and online hackathons! #StaySafe everyone

As we enter the third week of social-distancing, our team found a way to lighten the mood: impersonating our captain to celebrate today as our own! Happy April Fools and we hope you find joy in our conversations as we all #StayHomeSaveLives

Unfortunately, in light of the pandemic, Spaceport America Cup has been cancelled for this summer. Although the team is saddened by this, we support the decision to put the health of students, faculty and industry representatives above all else. We are already setting our sights on SAC 2021 and know that the progress we made this year will lead to some of our best launches yet!

Like most universities and student groups, we are on hiatus due to the ongoing pandemic. The team is continuing to do remote work such as writing reports and documentation. Until we're back, we hope everyone stays safe and follows government guidelines!

We reached 50% of our goal in the span of 24 hours yesterday, thank you everyone for your warming support! Our #mcgillseeds campaign at bit.ly/MRTDonate is still opened until April 28th at 12AM, so if you haven't had a chance to donate yesterday, please have a look at how you can help our rocket projects Reach New Heights #mcgill24 #mcgillproud #McGillTakeOff McGill Seeds of Change McGill University Alumni

Your support can help us participate in rocket competitions as exciting as Spaceport America Cup, which we participated last summer in this throwback video! Today, all donations will be matched, and between 5-6PM, the #mcgillseeds team with the most donations raised can receive an additional $500! Please visit bit.ly/MRTDonate and help our rocket projects Reach New Heights! #mcgill24 #mcgillproud #McGillTakeOff Experimental Sounding Rocket Association McGill University Alumni McGill Seeds of Change

Help us ensure that our nosecone can in fact phone home today! Visit bit.ly/MRTDonate to donate Nosecone for Spaceport America Cup complete! #mcgill24 #mcgillproud #space #STEM #mcgillseeds #SpaceportAmerica

We have lift off for #McGill24 - McGill's Day of Giving! Today, for any amount that you donates towards our #mcgillseeds campaign: bit.ly/MRTDonate, your donation will be matched, for up to dollar-by-dollar! Every gift counts, no matter the size! The more people gives, the more each gift gifts! Please join us and help make a difference to our projects by visiting here: bit.ly/MRTDonate... #mcgillproud McGill Seeds of Change McGill University Alumni

As today marks T-1 day to #Mcgill24, we wanted to highlight our amazing Payload subteam. If you wish to support their project and many others, please consider donating at bit.ly/MRTDonate The Payload subteam is responsible for creating the experiment we are going to launch aboard our rocket in order to give meaning to our activities. The first reason why we use rockets is to be able to perform experimentation and collect data. Since the team's creation, several payloads ha...ve been developed. This year these include a bacteria sampling experiment to study the microorganisms present at high altitude and a vibration detector in order to understand how vibrations taking place during flight affect our rocket. They are constantly looking for new ideas for our future launches #mcgillseeds #McGillTakeOff McGill Seeds of Change #mcgillproud

Did you know? On this Wednesday, Mar 11th, for any donation amount you make towards our fundraising campaign at bit.ly/MRTDonate, McGill's generous donors will match your donation up to dollar-by-dollar! Our team is working on many exciting projects, such as building our first hybrid-motor rocket, and we need your support more than ever to make this possible! Every single gift counts, no matter the size! Starting from now, we hope you can donate and join us as our team att...empts to reach new heights this year #mcgillseeds #McGillTakeOff

Happy International Women's Day from our rocket family! A special thanks to the women of MRT for their extraordinary work and relentless passion for making aerospace and STEM an environment open to all ages and genders "An equal world is an enabled world." Join us on this special day to celebrate this year's #IWD2020 message #EachForEqual, and test your knowledge of the top women in STEM who changed the world:... https://www.internationalwomensday.com//13-Women-in-STEM-W https://thebestschools.org/features/50-top-women-in-stem/ #WomeninSTEM #InternationalWomensDay #McGillTakeOff

Our aerostructures team recently went on a short expedition to get our molds coated! These freshly coated molds help us manufacture air frame parts for our second rocket to be launched at Launch Canada Since we need to depend on external facilities for painting expenditures like these, your support is crucial in helping us continue our work. Please consider donating to our student initiative at: http://bit.ly/MRTDonate #mcgillseeds #mcgill #LaunchCanada #SpaceportAmericaCup

While the McGill reading week kicks off today, the team is definitely not taking a break! This weekend was spent on progressing our test sites hot fire capability. Please consider supporting our fundraising campaign to fund amazing projects such as this one: bit.ly/MRTDonate #mcgillseeds #spaceportamericacup #launchcanada

Thank you for the shoutout from our sponsor Digi! Read more about how the McGill Rocket Team uses Digi's XTend radios for their avionics here: https://www.digi.com//the-skys-the-limit-for-mcgill-univer #Mcgill #McGillTakeOff #McGillRockets #McGillSeeds Experimental Sounding Rocket Association Spaceport America Cup

This past Saturday the team held our first MRT Hackathon! For a full day, members had a chance to tackle a challenge one of our subteams was facing, regardless of what they typically work on. Did you know? Donations as small as $20 allow us to host these kinds of events completely free of cost for members! If you have the means, please consider donating: bit.ly/MRTDonate

We are excited to kick off our yearly Seeds of Change fundraiser: bit.ly/MRTDonate! Over the next two months we will be asking for your support in helping us reach our goals this year. Donations go directly towards funding: - Our first ever student developed engine - Increasing the number of students who can attend competition - Our participation at the Spaceport America Cup and the first ever iteration of the Launch Canada competition... Every dollar helps us reach the stars, please consider donating at: bit.ly/MRTDonate! #mcgillseeds #spaceportamericacup #launchcanada Music: The Arc - The Arcs

The MRT is wishing you a nominal valentines day with your loved ones Sending out valentines cards (of varying quality) to everyone who has supported us over these years!

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We are officially back in the lab! Thank you to the Department of Chemical Engineering - McGill University for hosting us this year again! We couldn't do this without you.

We are proud to announce that our Spaceport America Cup 2020 rocket will be named Aramis from the famous French novel "The Three Musketeers" by Alexandre Dumas! Here is this year's mission patch.

Ever wonder what material we use to make our airframe mould? We use a type of modelling board called RenShape thanks to Huntsman Corporation & Freeman Manufacturing & Supply Company who support us with all our projects!

We're tabling at EUS Winter Involvement Day! Come chat with us about the cool projects we have going on!

The team took a break from exams this afternoon to relax and spend some time together outside of the shop! Wishing everyone good luck on their final exams and an enjoyable start to the holidays!

Today, on the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence against Women, we remember the 14 women who were murdered 30 years ago in the École Polytechnique de Montréal massacre. We remember those killed and hope we all continue fighting against gendered violence, a problem that persists to this day. If you wish to commemorate the memory of those lost, a memorial will be taking place tonight at the Kondiaronk lookout facing the Mount Royal Chalet: https://www.facebook.com/events/1349312611917330/?ti=cl

Is the team building a glass harp? We wish! The payload team is hard at work testing our vibration standalone module on a wine glass! This module will help us characterize what kind of vibrations our rocket will experience in flight, to help validate and improve our designs. If you want to see a full glass harp in action, check this out: https://youtu.be/QdoTdG_VNV4?t=11

Where can you find our propulsion members at 10 AM every Saturday morning? In the computer lab, working hard to design our new test site and hybrid engine!

Our second CDR occurred this past Wednesday! We got valuable feedback on our mission operations, recovery and overall rocket layout. Thank you once again to our advisors who attended!