Hello Everyone!

For anyone who could not make it to the meeting last week, these are the topics we covered. We hope to see everyone at the meeting this week!

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• Room for meetings
• New room: ENC3006 Fridays from 3-5 PM, reserved until December 3
• Advertising
• Need a new poster for X-Labs to get members.
• Coyt, Billie, and Lucky are going to work on the poster
• Website
• Change it so that spammers can’t create accounts
• New members will have to send an e-mail to Coyt to join.
• Google Group  
• X-labs members must sign up for the Google group in order to send and receive e-mail
• Expo
• Budget is due next Friday; Keven and Alex will do the budget next week
• Ideas for EXPO: handout, t-shirts, electronics parts, fusor ($300), lifter ($150), Tesla coil ($150), plasma speaker ($150), balloon camera ($150), ferrofluid ($100), coil gun/cap bank, mod stacks ($50)
• Y-1
• Payload dragged to bottom by weights, weights will be released, payload (filled with oil) will then float back up to the surface
• Need a scuba tank to test components under pressure
• Possibly use fishing line or spool to retrieve payload
• First test should be at about 100 feet with fishing line attached in case release system fails; second test at 200 feet
• Coyt will see if we can test in his pool
• Indica will e-mail someone about the pressure vessel
• Alex will do the math on the fishing line
• Joe Register will talk to USF St. Pete about the 30 foot pool and the pressure vessel