Alabama
NASA Student Launch Teams Returning to North Alabama
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., April 18, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Following two years of digital occasions, groups may have the chance to compete in individual on the 2022 NASA Scholar Launch rocketry competitors.
The annual occasion is ready for Saturday, April 23, at Bragg Farms in Toney, Alabama, minutes north of NASA’s Marshall Area Flight Middle in Huntsville. Scholar Launch challenges center faculty, highschool, faculty, and college college students to design, construct, take a look at, and fly a payload and high-powered newbie rocket. Sixty groups from 23 states plus Puerto Rico are participating on this 12 months’s competitors; 27 groups are anticipated to launch in individual. Groups not touring to Alabama might conduct closing take a look at flights at a house launch area.
Schedule
- April 23: Launch day from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. CDT, or till the final rocket launches. The opening ceremony begins at 9 a.m., that includes audio system from NASA Headquarters, NASA Marshall, and Northrop Grumman.
- April 24: Tentative rain day in case of deterring climate. Competitors will run from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., or till final rocket launches.
Winners can be introduced June 2 throughout a digital awards ceremony as soon as all groups’ flight knowledge has been verified.
Media serious about protecting Scholar Launch occasions ought to contact Christopher Blair at 256-544-0034.
Concerning the Competitors
This 12 months, groups should fly their rocket to an altitude between 4,000 and 6,000 toes and make a profitable touchdown. Groups within the faculty/college division will deal with a brand new activity that mirrors NASA missions just like the Mars Curiosity Rover. Groups should design a payload able to autonomously finding the place their rocket landed by figuring out the rocket’s grid place on an aerial picture of the launch web site, whereas transmitting the information again to their floor station. This should be completed with out using GPS. The requirement simulates a problem confronted by NASA mission managers – speaking with spacecraft and payloads on distant planetary our bodies, the place use of GPS is just not an possibility.
Center and highschool groups can select to aim the faculty/college division problem or develop their very own science or engineering experiment.
Groups predicted their rocket’s altitude months prematurely of launch day. The crew that comes closest to their projection in every division wins the Altitude Award. Groups are scored in almost a dozen different classes, together with security, automobile design, social media presence, and science, expertise, engineering, and math engagement.
NASA’s Southeast Regional Workplace of STEM Engagement manages Scholar Launch, one of many company’s Artemis Scholar Challenges. These actions stimulate innovation and advance NASA’s human exploration mission by collaboration with academic establishments and college students – the Artemis Era, who will assist NASA discover the Moon and Mars. NASA’s Area Operations Mission Directorate and Workplace of STEM Engagement, together with Northrop Grumman present funding and management for the initiative.
The rocket launches are open to the general public, however pets should not permitted.
Reside streaming will start at 8:30 a.m. CDT on Scholar Launch Fb and NASA Marshall Youtube.
For extra details about Scholar Launch, go to:
https://www.nasa.gov/stem/studentlaunch/house/index.html
SOURCE NASA
Alabama
Seth McLaughlin Brings Alabama's Tennessee Victory Cigar Tradition to the Ohio State Sideline
Seth McLaughlin wasn’t able to play against Tennessee on Saturday night.
But that didn’t mean he couldn’t celebrate his team’s dominating 42-17 win the way he used to when he suited up for the Alabama Crimson Tide as an undergraduate student.
The cigar he had with him was not random or a prop. It was part of a tradition he learned in Tuscaloosa.
— Chase Brown (@chaseabrown__) December 22, 2024
As the legend has it, in 1961 one of Bear Bryant’s trainers lit up a stogie following a Tide win which had ended a five-game slide to the Volunteers. This created a tradition maintained over the next two decades – which eventually spread to the opposite sideline.
The Volunteers have been participating in the victory cigar tradition since the early 1980s. It has spread from the sideline into the stands and tailgates. Earlier this season, the Volunteers beat the Crimson Tide in Knoxville, creating a plume of smoke above Neyland Stadium.
Tennessee students light up cigars after an SEC conference game between Tennessee and Alabama in Neyland Stadium on Saturday, Oct. 19, 2024. © Brianna Paciorka/News Sentinel / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
So it was appropriate that McLaughlin, now with the Buckeyes following his Rimington Award-winning season in Columbus found a way to pay homage to his first alma mater while celebrating with his second one.
Former Alabama center Seth McLaughlin is smoking a cigar on the Ohio State sideline as time expires and the Buckeyes beat Tennessee.
— Sidelines – Bama (@SSN_Alabama) December 22, 2024
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Colorado LB Nikhai Hill-Green to transfer to Alabama football. What it means for Crimson Tide
An all-conference linebacker is joining Alabama football for the 2025 season.
Nikhai Hill-Green, a former Michigan and Charlotte linebacker who was second-team All-Big 12 at Colorado in 2024, told On3 he would transfer to the Crimson Tide for his final season of eligibility.
Hill-Green is the seventh player to join Alabama ahead of 2025 along with Cal long snapper David Bird, Colorado School of Mines punter Blake Doud, Florida defensive lineman Kelby Collins, Utah cornerback Cameron Calhoun, Texas A&M offensive lineman Kam Dewberry and Miami wide receiver Isaiah Horton.
Hill-Green is the third transfer commitment Saturday along with Horton and Dewberry.
What Alabama football gets in Colorado LB Nikhai Hill-Green
Hill-Green is coming off his most productive collegiate season yet.
The former four-star linebacker out of Baltimore was the Buffaloes’ second-leading tackler with 82, adding 11.5 tackles-for-loss, two sacks, four pass deflections and two interceptions.
Hill-Green had a 13-tackle performance against Kansas State. He also had back-to-back games against Texas Tech and Utah where he had an interception.
Hill-Green improved upon his productive 2023 season at Charlotte where he had 73 tackles, nine tackles-for-loss, two sacks and three pass deflections.
Hill-Green originally signed with Michigan in the 2020 class and played two seasons with the Wolverines.
Alabama football depth chart: Where does Nikhai Hill-Green fit?
Alabama’s linebacker room is about to get a lot younger.
The Crimson Tide added four linebackers in the 2025 recruiting class: Ohio four-star Justin Hill, Georgia four-star Darrell Johnson, Georgia four-star Luke Metz and California four-star Abduall Sanders Jr.
It’s a room currently in a bit of a transition period, one that will not have Que Robinson and Justin Jefferson in 2025 while Jihaad Campbell and Deontae Lawson are both NFL draft eligible.
Depending on the status of Campbell and Lawson, Alabama could be looking to fill two linebacker spots next to Wolf Qua Russaw. And other than the four freshmen, Alabama’s room does not have many options with players expected to return such as Justin Okoronkwo, Jeremiah Alexander and Cayden Jones.
Hill-Green is a plug-and-play starter, likely at the Mike, one that gives Alabama a chance to develop younger members of the room instead of throwing them into the fire as freshmen.
Colin Gay covers Alabama football for The Tuscaloosa News, part of the USA TODAY Network. Reach him at cgay@gannett.com or follow him @_ColinGay on X, formerly known as Twitter.
Justice Haynes is leaving, Jam Miller is staying, but what about the rest of Alabama’s backfield? Barring any more offseason transition, the Crimson Tide will still have five running backs who were rated as four-star talents coming out of high school
While talent shouldn’t be an issue, Miller is the only member of that bunch with extended in-game reps. Heading into this month’s ReliaQuest Bowl, the rising senior’s 209 career carries are more than three times as many as the rest of the Tide’s current backs combined.
Still, Alabama feels good about its upcoming backfield, even after Haynes’ departure. While the Tide might pounce if the right back hits the portal, the position is low on its list of offseason priorities. With that said, here’s a look at how next year’s backfield could shape up.
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