Nate's blog

My Birthday is on November 21. In case you can’t wait here is a counter that is counting down until my birthday.

All birthday checks can be addressed to “Nathan Schloss”.

As you may all ready know I recently entered the “Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award ” but did not qualify as a finalist. However another team from my school did and I went to New Mexico to help then with their entry. Well they won the award! They are being interviewed a lot now and are appearing on televised news and in newspapers, and one of thoes newspapers talked about how I helped them make/set up their display, “…while Schloss — who Kassebaum calls a computer genius — got the display working.”. They also talk about my entry. You can view the article here.

“The Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award is both the world’s premier student prize for innovative aerospace concepts and the premier educational tool for exciting and involving students in the rapidly growing personal spaceflight industry. Not only are the prizes impressive for the winners, but the educational benefits of competing are enormous. The award creates a new level of excitement and dynamic participation in all fields of science and technology. It also provides an unparalleled opportunity to connect the most innovative students with the companies and entrepreneurs who are leading the way in opening the space frontier to the world.” (http://space.xprize.org/x-prize-cup/conrad_award/)

I am entering this competition as part of a team from Milken. I think that we have a good chance of winning because we are team id 17 (and 17 pwns).