Rising Data
Development in the Classroom
Rising Data is a three-year curriculum developed for California Community Colleges. From 2015-2019, the course taught principles of rocketry, software, hardware, construction, data analysis and aerial vehicle operations for over 200 students at nine Hispanic Serving California community colleges.
The Launch
The curriculum taught students how to engineer and launch a Quadcopter and Model Rocket with an experimental payload that included a position, velocity and acceleration sensor as well as a sensor to measure temperature.
The Rising Data course taught skills useful to the NASA workforce, and also promoted the success of STEM students in the California State University system. The curriculum development was led by faculty from Sonoma State University and CSU Fresno.
All the resources that were created during this project are made publicly available for use at any institution.
Projects
Development of quadcopter by assembling hardware components and connecting the controller through C code.
Development of a payload with position and temperature sensors.
Thank you to our Partners for making this possible:
Rising Data was supported by a grant from NASA's Minority University Research and Education Program (MUREP), Community College Curriculum Improvement (MC3I) grant NNX158
