Do you have what it takes to send a capsule at an altitude of 40 kilometers (120,000 feet) above Earth's sea level? Can you retrieve and process the data from the environmental experiments you sent up there? We know a group of students who can, and this is their story.
Here is some trivia about this episode in case you are not familiar with Monterrey, Mexico or our school:
Min 8.28 / An Oxxo is a Mexican chain of convenience stores, with over 14,000 stores across Latin America
Min 11.28 / "Kiko" (Air Recovery Team) is not one of our students, he is an engineer and one of the mentors of the project. And, yes; he does have an helicopter (A helicopter company actually).
Min 25.4 / The Presa Rompepicos or Rompepicos Dam is a 71 meters structure in the middle of the Huasteca National Park a few kilometers away from our school. This structure was built to filter on high rainy seasons the water from the rio Santa Catarina into the city with a capacity of over 1400 cubic meters per second.
Min 27.2 / The Huastequita campus is the Building that holds our Elementary grades Nursery to 5th, is built on a 50 acre parcel of land located to the west of Garza Garcia, Monterrey, Mexico
