ub-seds open house

University at Buffalo Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

What Is SEDS?• National student run organization• Goal is to promote space• Members include all majors • Member schools are all over the country

SEDS-USA• National Organization for Coordinating SEDS

Activities• Council of Chapters (CoC)• National E-Board

What we do at UB• Current Projects– Rocketry– Educational Outreach– Propulsion – Astronomy– Botwars

• Past Projects– NanoSat

What we do at UB• Current Projects– Rocketry– Educational Outreach– Propulsion – Astronomy– Botwars

• Past Projects– NanoSat

What we do at UB• Yuri’s Night– The worlds party for space!– April 12th

• Conferences!– SpaceVIsion– Regional Space Conference

Why Join SEDS• Have a great time• Participate in projects• Talk/learn about space• Learn about NASA and other internships• Meet people from all across the country interested in Space• Meet astronauts • Get a sweet job when you graduate• Full members get sweet benefits

– Free E-Ball ticket raffles.– Reduced Price Trips

Steps to Joining UB-SEDS• Sign in at meetings• Join the UB-SEDS Facebook group• Sign into ubseds.org to create account (via Facebook)• Sign into national, seds.org website• Also…

– Full Member System– Added Benefits– Participation and Service requirements

• 50% of meetings OR active in project group for Participation• 2 Service events

When/Where• General meetings

– Wednesday, 5:00 pm Furnas Hall, Room 206• Weekly

• Project groups meet at various times, to be posted on Website (+ Google calendar)

Anything else?• Something else you’d like to do• We’ll try it!

• We’re about helping people do anything (space related)• Examples include space course, space newsletter,

recent projects, etc.

• Website: UBSEDS.org • Email: ubseds@gmail.com