Spaceport America Cup 2024

Final Reminder to please vote for the Tripoli Board of Directors - Deadline June 1st

May 5, 2024, 7:59 p.m. PDT by ESRA Executive Director

Please consider voting for Dr. Ken Overton, Rick Maschek and Chris Nilsen who are all running and are active ESRA Volunteers!

Quick Q&A with Ken Overton:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTZ7wN9A0Y4&ab_channel=KenOverton

This year's election of directors is underway, with a deadline of June 1. We have a group of seven well-qualified candidates who have volunteered to serve our organization, and all we have to do is select three. At this point in the election, about 10% of the 7,900 members have voted.

Invitations to vote, including instructions for submitting your ballot online, are sent via email to all eligible voters from our partner, BigPulse.com. These instructions will be sent again shortly to all who have not yet voted.

If you have not received your personal invitation to vote, please double check your spam folder. If you need assistance, please send me an email and I'll help you out.

Thanks again for casting your vote.

Bill Riley
Tripoli Election Committee Chair
BRiley@Elections-Tripoli.org

Submissions for Technical Paper, School Participation Letter, Podium Session Extended Abstract and Poster Content are now being accepted

May 5, 2024, 6:54 a.m. PDT by ESRA Executive Director

Submissions for Technical Paper, School Participation Letter, Podium Session Extended Abstract and Poster Content are now being accepted on HeroX.

As listed in the Integrated Master Schedule, the deadline for submission for these documents is this Friday, May 10th at 5pm CENTRAL time.

Upload your Project Technical Report in accordance with the IREC Rules and Requirements Document section 2.7.2. Files MUST be less than or equal to 50 MB in size.
Upload your podium session abstract in accordance with the IREC Rules and Requirements Document section 2.7.4.
Upload your podium session presentation in accordance with the IREC Rules and Requirements Document section 2.7.4.
Upload your school participation letter in accordance with the IREC Rules and Requirements Document section 2.7.5.1.
Upload a .pdf of your poster display in accordance with 2.7.3 of the Rules & Requirements

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KUDOS to Duke University for being the 1st team to submit their PRE-REGISTRATION forms

May 4, 2024, 9:42 a.m. PDT by ESRA Executive Director

We’d like to thank all of the teams who have already submitted their pre-registration forms on HeroX. Shoutout to Team 25, Duke University, for being the first entry this year, keep up the good work! So far, all but one team has chosen the earliest time-slot (9-11am) as their number one pick, so if your team is interested in the earliest start time, make sure to submit as soon as possible to receive your preference!

Another note, upon checking the earliest submissions, we realized that the excel document on our website was outdated, this sheet was missing the column for ethnicity data which ESRA requires this year. This will not affect the placement of teams who have already submitted, I will email those teams individually to gather the information. For those who have not submitted yet, please check if you have the most updated document and transfer your information to it if necessary.

It has also been brought to our attention that there was an issue purchasing non-attending rocketeer tickets on our website, this issue has been resolved, so your team will be able to purchase those tickets now if desired.

Thank you all for your patience and hard work during these changes to SAC, we hope to make this competition the best one yet!

Sierra Stockwell
Registration Coordinator

Video Challenges are Updated

May 4, 2024, 6:30 a.m. PDT by ESRA Executive Director

The Team Video Challenge, Live Rocket Video Challenge, and Livestream upload links are all updated. We look forward to your submissions! We are also excited to be bringing the Live Rocket Video Challenge for the first time this year.

For more information, see the challenge pages here and discuss in the HeroX forum "Video Challenge and Live Video Challenge Questions".

Note the upcoming deadlines for Dropbox submissions:

3 June 2024: Livestream video submission
2359 local time on Friday, 21 June 2024: Team Video Challenge submission
2359 local time on Friday 21 June 2024: Live Rocket Video Challenge highlight submission

Pre Registration Process that will help reduce or ELIMINATE the long lines on Monday during Registration

April 28, 2024, 11:26 a.m. PDT by ESRA Executive Director

Hello everyone,

This year, in our efforts to improve the Spaceport America Cup, we will be implementing a new HeroX form as a part of our registration process. This Pre-Registration form will allow us to gather the information normally gathered on Registration day ahead of time to make lines run smoother and faster. Standing out in the heat last year was terrible and ESRA hopes that it never happens again.

In this form, teams will be asked for student information, Tripoli cards, waivers, and preferred start times. This is explained in more detail in the video that has been released with the registration form and its associated documents. These materials are linked within the form.

Please watch this video at your earliest convenience. And get started collecting the items needed ASAP. We understand that this is a new process that will take some time to complete. The form will be open for submission from today until May 10th. Early teams will be rewarded with their preferred start times as explained in the video. If students attending competition are swapped out after submittal or you have any questions please email .

Thank you all, we look forward to seeing you on registration day!

Sierra Stockwell

ESRA Registration Coordinator

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