Constantinos Veletas

I participated in the engineering projects class, Gateway to Space, for my aerospace engineering degree from January 2024 to May 2024. In this class I worked with a group of people to outline, design, build and fly a payload on a balloon to the stratosphere on April 21st 2024. My team chose to make a payload that would brew a cup of coffee while the balloon was at a certain height, while keeping the internals of the payload warm so that an arduino circuit board inside could take sensor data. I and my team believed that this experiment would challenge our abilities as engineers while also working within our means. I demonstrated my abilities to soldering and my experience with programming as I was responsible for a large part of the physical building process of the circuitry, coffee containers, and airframe itself. I also demonstrated leadership by being able to use the strengths of my teammates to our collective advantage with effective communication and teamwork. The result of this hard work on my and my teams ends were an entirely successful mission that saw us collect a complete set of data of the temperature, pressure, and humidity of the stratosphere, while also brewing a roughly 1.5 oz shot of instant espresso which we drank after recovering the payload. I believe this experience has prepared me for a fast paced and challenging work environment that necessitates group work and collaboration, and which is at the heart of the modern Aerospace industry.

• On rotation I would be responsible for scanning the pool and enforcing the pool's rules and policy to customers, in turn maintaining a safe environment for recreation and fun
• Of rotation I would be responsible for a variety of chores including the checking of the water chemistry of the pools including PH, Chlorine content, Calcium content, and temperature, recording and managing these systems to keep the pool within safe operating conditions
• Additionally I would conduct cleanings of various parts of the pools and their respective pool decks during and after operating hours, including mopping, under water vacuuming scrubbing of walls and trash pick up.

• I was trained to work in the front end department at a King Scoopers Kroger grocery store
• I assisted the upfront managers and cashiers in bagging groceries, organizing and managing carts in cart docks and other store resources, and assisting customers with finding product, retrieving product, and returning product to its preestablished section within the store.