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Issue 7

TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 2018

Are you Certain?

Melbourne Air Show thrills Florida Tech students

Spring

Florida Tech student makes film idea reality

Brett Twery (left) and Michael Milligan (right) at the FITV studio.

Photo by Aaliyah Thomas

AAliyah Thomas \\ Contributing writer Solipsism isn’t a word thrown around often—but Florida Tech student Michael “Boo” Milligan is creating his own film based on it.

Solipsism is the theory that only the self exists or can be proven to exist. It relates to the famous quote by Rene Descartes, “I think, therefore

I am.”

Milligan chose to name his film “Certainty.”

Certainty is the quality or state of being certain especially on the basis of evidence.

Throug h t he ba sis of solipsism the characters and humans experience, Milligan said it was a fitting title.

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Highway to the danger zone

Melbourne 2018 Airshow.

Photo by Kevin Boodoosingh

ing the Melbourne Air & Space Show.

With only 20 B-2 Spirit Stealth Bombers in the world, this appearance was a sure to be acrowd favorite according to Filippo Mazzanti, a mechanical engineering student at Florida Tech.

“It’s an incredible and

KAT redner \\ Contributing Writer Faces turned to the sky as a rare B-2 Stealth Bomber gracefully glided over thousands of people.

Many of these people happened to be Florida Tech students and alumni attend-

uncommon sight,” Mazzanti said.

Not only was the B-2 a part of the show, the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds headlined the event with six of their red, white and blue F-16 aircrafts.

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REGISTRATION…

May the odds be ever in your favor loads for you to see your future before you.

In past semesters, internet servers have crashed and left students without classes. It’s a game of luck when it comes to PAWS and many students prepare for registration in different ways.

One way that students prepare is by writing down the CRN’s of classes with the preferred times they want. Other ways that students prepare is by copy and pasting the numbers in at 7:59 p.m. and hitting the button when it hits exactly 08:00.00 p.m.

One sophomore in ocean engineering, Natalie Holliday, has a plan for when it comes to registration.

“To prepare for classes, I make a goal of what I want to accomplish by the end of

Ashley letendre \\ staff writer

Caio Silveira, left, the team’s leader.

Photo courtesy of Caio Silveira

TYPHON team

makes mothership for debris removal Lindsay isaac \\ Social media coordinator Cerberus, designed and built by eight Florida Tech seniors, is more than a reference to t he monstrous multi-headed dog of Greek mythology.

It’s a laboratory prototype of a satellite capable of tracking and capturing space debris.

I n o t he r w or d s , i t ’s

designed to assist in the removal of defunct, artificially created objects in space that can easily damage satellites or spacecrafts.

The u n ma n ne d spac e debris capture vehicle won Best Aerospace Project at the 2017 Nor throp Gr umman Senior Design Showcase.

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NASA JPL Student Design Team Makes Mini Rovers for Mars 2020 Mission

INDEX

Spring showers bring April flowers as they all say. Yet to some students, April brings showers of tears when it comes to registering for classes.

It’s been rumored that registration, no matter the time, is considered the equivalent to the Hunger Games. Registration begins on April 8 around 8 p.m. This day is only available for seniors, athletes, flight and students with special permission.

Registration then continues on for the following four days. Rising juniors register Monday and so on. Yet with this order, once everyone puts in their classes at 8 p.m., the only thing you can do is watch the circle twirl around as it

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the year and base my specific courses on that goal,” Holliday said.

In order to prepare, she researches the classes she has to take in advance.

“Then I get the CRN’s and go to off campus WiFi when I register,” Holliday said.

The ocean engineering freshmen, Holly Caldwell, advises the same thing for anyone trying to register.

“Plan your schedule out in advance so you have the best chance at getting your firstchoice classes,” Caldwell said.

Some consequences of not planning your classes or meeting with your academic advisor are as follows: having a hold, the class is filled, your adviser didn’t f lip your f lag or your

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Page 12 Sara Grenier, lacrosse player, setting records

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V e x at i o u s V e n d i n g

Students frustrated with lack of working vending options for their money on campus Annika Sundquist \\ staff writer Lately vending machines all over Florida Tech’s campus have not been accepting student IDs or payment of any type. But more than that, the campus vending machines seem to stop working all together when students are trying to utilize this resource.

This issue is impacting freshman through seniors at Florida Tech because most underclassmen chose to invest in a meal plan.

Flex cash can be a part of that meal plan to be used at on campus locales such as Panther Grocery, the SUB, the RAT, Evan’s Library, Skurla and in residence areas like Harris and Columbia Village.

“The biggest thing that bothers me when the vending machines aren’t working is that when I need water like when I played dodgeball and I couldn’t get a bottle of water,” Sarah Coutu, freshman in aerospace engineering, said.

“Often times in CV where I don’t have time to get a water from anywhere else. It bothers me because it's hot here.”

Many people on campus also use the vending machines quite frequently. Every student interviewed said they use the vending machines at least twice a week.

“I use them almost every week and I would say a few times a month they don’t work,” Raven Vega, senior in applied behavior analysis, said.

Vega has used several malfunctioning vending machines over the past two semesters on campus. Like many stu-

dents, Vega has seen several machines straight up deny her card, eat her cash or phantom drink holders that move endlessly while nothing happens.

“One time I tried getting a Snickers out and it didn’t fall, so then I tried it again to push the other and they both got stuck,” Vega said.

“I was honestly so upset.

It’s upsetting because sometimes when using cash, I don’t get my money back if it doesn’t work, or the closest food place is closed, or super far and then it’s just inconvenient for me.”

Students are willing to buy vending snacks with their school meal plans because it means less distance to walk, less money to spend and more time devoted to schoolwork— or blowing it off.

Other students do not let the problematic vending machines stop them, or have not yet encountered many that do not work. Some students don’t seem to have a problem with the on-campus vending.

“Using t he vend ing machines doesn’t deter me because I have only had a broken machine once,” Justin R ing uet te, sophomore in aerospace engineering, said.

“I think this could be remedied by having the vending machines tested every once in a while and having a servicing staff.”

Many students also like the availability of their flex and the variety flex options offered for campus dining.

“When I have my card and actually use it I go to the vending machines about twice a week,” Digioia said. “I don’t use them that often. I usually go to the grocery or the SUB.

Sarah Coutu trying her luck at some vending machines on campus.

Photo by Annika Sundquist

Phantom drink holders that move endlessly while nothing happens.

Photo by Annika Sundquist

If I use them, I use the ones in Crawford or at the SUB.” However, even with all these choices, the vending machines are still easy access for students on campus.

“Prices are normal com-

p a r e d to ot her vend i ng machines, but it would still be cheaper to buy from a store,” Coutu said.

Vending may still have problems, but the school has installed the ability to take

student IDs and cards over the last several years. Students are lucky to have the ability to use their flex at the on-campus vending machines, but even luckier if they happen to find a machine that works.

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NASA JPL student design team makes mini rovers for Mars 2020 mission pretty on the CAD model, but when you come to actually put it together and make it, it’s very difficult,” she said.

Clark, who was responsible for making sure everything from the CAD model made it into the actual model, said the biggest success has been watching all the pieces come together.

“It’s really great to see your idea and your imagination come to life in the physical object,” she said.

Lindsay isaac \\ Social media coordinator Twenty-one Florida Tech students recently presented two mini rovers they spent hundreds of hours creating at the 2018 Northrop Grumman Student Design Showcase.

The students were part of this year’s NASA JPL Senior Design team working on mini rovers for the Mars 2020 mission.

JPL stands for “Jet Propulsion Laboratory” — NASA’s leading center for robotic exploration of the solar system.

“We were basically just given a problem statement by NASA — assist the Mars 2020 mission or the Europa mission,” said McKenzie Clark, the team’s manufacturing lead.

“A f ter weig h i ng b ot h options, we chose to pursue a project on Mars rather than Europa (a moon of Jupiter),” she said.

Florida Tech’s NASA JPL team decided the best way to assist the Mars 2020 mission would be to design a synergistic system of miniature rovers able to work independent of each other as well as perform joint mission tasks.

“These mini rovers can perform the same tasks as a

Senior design student works on assembling the Mars rover.

larger rover can, but there are two of them,” Clark said.

“So, if one fails, the mission isn’t a complete failure — and they can still carry out the basic tasks.”

The idea behind having two smaller rovers that can communicate, rather than just one larger rover, is to increase the system lifespan, survivability, amount of ground covered and quantity of data gathered.

According to Clark, mini rovers have been made by the European Space Agency (ESA),

McKenzie Clark, the team’s manufacturing lead.

Photo by Lindsay Isaac

Clark and another NASA JPL team member, Anthony Pietra, at work in the Harris Student Design Center.

Photo by Lindsay Isaac

Photo by Lindsay Isaac

but have never been sent to Mars. “…wh ic h i s why we wanted Clark to elaborate on the said the hardest part concept,” she said. of the process has been The project was a prototype, but the team hopes the making things easy to concepts will be utilized on manufacture.

“Something will look actual rovers.

The rover without the robot arm and without any wiring.

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Are you Certain?

Brett Twery looking at Michael Milligan through his camera lense Photo by Aaliyah Thomas

Florida Tech student makes film idea reality Continued from front Milligan walked into a FITV meeting as it was ending and met Brett Twery, who is a member of FITV productions, the cinematographer and an editor of the film.

“He came through and said 'yo, my name’s Mike, y’all make movies?' I immediately said 'hell yeah, we do,'” Twery said.

The film is loosely inspired by tragic incidents that happened in Charlot tesv ille, Virginia specifically when a woman was killed in a hit-andrun during a protest.

Milligan channeled racial tensions of today’s society and the Charlottesville event to set a foundation of the film. The film is about a black man who goes through a virtual reality experience through the perspective of a white man.

Thomas Carter Rochester, a Florida Tech alumni and current staff member, plays a character named Tyler. Tyler is a college student that is tired of his history and heritage being cast out from the forefront.

“To sum up Tyler in a word: racist. The hardest part about playing Tyler is that I am not racist, so I had to pull from negative experiences from my childhood,” Rochester said.

Rochester grew up in a

town that was racially and class divided. He said that everyone seemed to hate each other.

“I pulled the hatred and ‘holier than thou’ attitude of the character from various people and interactions I witnessed growing up,” said Rochester.

Amy Laakman, visiting instructor of communication, reviewed Milligan’s original script and helped with practical issues, and she also encouraged Milligan through the strenuous film process.

“I thought the film was very doable because it was a small cast, and there weren’t any huge technical issues or special effects.” Laakman said.

Laakman said the film is very timely due to the culture of society today.

“One problem I thought he might have is, without too many spoilers, that the racism is very important to tell the story, but I think it might be hard for people to accept,” Laakman said. “I think having seen ‘Get Out’ the timing is really good for it.”

Ebube Ubochi, a graduate student in global strategic communication, saw the original script after Milligan asked for Ubochi’s feedback and was very intrigued by the script.

While Ubochi wasn’t actually on set, he answered Milligan’s questions about camera positioning and production but said that Milligan and his team took his advice and made it their own which he enjoyed seeing.

“I think those who see it will be jolted into reconsidering what they hold as the ‘status quo’ or their own reality,” Ubochi said.

Laakman said it’s important for students in any major to be able to express themselves artistically.

“The humanities are why we are working to be scientist.

If we don’t understand the human condition, we’re not going to understand what our needs are, and technology just for the sake of technology is useless,” Laakman said.

O n t he f i l m, U b o c h i expressed the importance of keeping an open mind while viewing.

Ubochi said, “The film kind of makes you ask retrospective questions regarding positions of acceptance, race, friendship, peer pressure and those around you.”

Florida Tech students and community can expect to view the film on April 20 in the F. W. Olin Engineering Complex room 118.

Milligan relies on FITV's equipment to film his movie.

Photo by Aaliyah Thomas

Photo by www.theodysseyonline.com

REGISTRATION…

May the odds be ever in your favor Continued from front negatives are incredibly likely since registration is always a game of luck.

Regardless of any student’s major, sometimes you end up getting the class times or even classes you never wanted. Reg-

istration begins on Sunday April 8 at 8 p.m. and continues from that point on. For students who aren’t so lucky and need help, the registrar in Harris Commons has many closed class and prerequisite forms available at all times.

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Let the makes mothership for debris removal brain-picking

TYPHON team

begin

Continued from front And it has given rise to another laboratory prototype that was presented at this year’s showcase—an interface known as TRRICCS (the Typhon Refuel and Recharge Interface for Cerberus Capture System).

Ten different seniors have been hard at work on Project TYPHON, creating the interface to allow Cerberus and TYPHON to have fluid, electrical energy and data transfer.

“The intention is to create a ‘mothership’ for Cerberus, which would essentially act as an interface to capture, refuel and recharge Cerberus,” Caio Silveira, the leader of the team, said.

This would assist Cerberus in the successful removal of space debris.

As explained by Silveira, “For Cerberus to deorbit space debris, it would need to be refueled and recharged. That’s where Project TYPHON comes in.”

According to Greek mythology, Typhon was the father of Cerberus, which is how the team chose the project’s name.

“Even though, in our case, Cerberus came first,” Silveira said.

The project involves four subsystems: Capture, Refuel, Recharge and Electrical, and Data Handling and Communication.

And you can believe that Team TYPHON had fun choosing names and acronyms for each of those subsystems—or parts of them.

There’s CTIP, the Cerberus TYPHON Interface Plate.

There’s also FEED System, t he F E m a l E D i s c on ne c t System.

The list goes on.

According to Silveira, the hardest part of the project has been getting to the point of having a proper interface.

Ocean engineering students get face time with industry professionals Abeer Janakat \\ Design editor

Paul McIntyre, the team’s electrical engineering student.

Photo courtesy of Caio Silveira

“The greatest success was being able to connect, That’s basically 50 percent of our project done.”

- Caio Silveira

Some of the TYPHON team assembling Photo courtesy of Caio Silveira TYPHON itself.

“Our project depends on Cerberus, which we knew very little about,” he said. “So, studying it and reassembling it taught us a lot to be able to come up with the current design.”

The team faced delays in the reassembly of Cerberus due to lack of documentation from the previous student researchers.

Without this documentation, the seniors had to reverse engineer many of the programming codes to rework and reas-

Team TYPHON at work in the Harris Student Design Center.

Photo courtesy of Caio Silveira

semble the electrical system.

Despite these challenges, the team was recently able to watch Cerberus successfully connect to TRRICCS at Florida Tech’s Orion Research Lab. The Orion Lab has been one of the team’s two work sites—the other site being the Harris Student Design Center on campus.

“The greatest success was being able to connect,” Silveira said. “That’s basically 50 percent of our project done.”

Silveira at the Northrop Grumman senior design showcase.

Photo courtesy of Caio Silveira

From partners, presidents to vice presidents, 11 ocean engineering industry professionals visited Florida Tech on Monday, April 2.

Hosted by the society of Ocean Engineers, formerly known as MTS-SNAME, a roundtable networking event gave students the opportunity to talk to industry professionals in a somewhat personal setting.

The event held in the Hartley room was set-up giving each professional their own table and space for seven students at a time.

“You don’t really get that opportunity a lot of times, to talk to someone in a smaller group setting where you get to ask them questions,” Natalie Gadelrab, ocean engineering sophomore and MTS-SNAME president, said.

The event started with 30 minutes of general networking including ser ved hors d’oeuvres, where afterwards students were able to choose a professional to spend 15 minutes with before rotating tables.

The idea for this event came from the SNAME Maritime Convention that MTSSNA ME attended back in October 2017.

Gadelrab said this year MTS-SNAME is putting more effort into being an active club on campus. Their goal is to have more marine related events on and around campus that students can easily attend.

“This was the first year that we actually hosted a roundtable and we hosted a SNAME Southeast Section Meeting in the Fall.” Gadelrab said.

With the help of her advisor, Geoffrey Swain and Career Management Services, Gadelrab and the MTS-SNA ME executive board were able to hold this event after four months of planning.

Donna Gaynor, the Director of Career Management Services, was able to help sponsor this event financially.

“Dr. Swain contacted me and said that the group did

not have any funding and he was concerned that these professionals are coming in from distances and nobody was providing food and so I offered to,” Gaynor said.

The roundtable event was a success with 45 students and 11 professionals in attendance.

“It was really good to talk to professionals and understand what it takes and what my future could look like,” Brigitt O’Connor, ocean engineering sophomore, said.

Not only were students impressed, but professionals like Gaynor also said the event was a success.

“It was very successful and it was very well organized by the students. They did a really good job of organizing and keeping in contact with individuals who are attending like myself and the other corporate individuals,” Gaynor said. “I was very impressed with this group.”

Gaynor also said she was pleasantly surprised by how MTS-SNAME were able to bring in non-local professionals. “ They d id have some people coming in from Miami, which was pretty surprising.

We don’t see that very often.

We usually have local contacts for these kind of events,” Gaynor said.

Due to the feedback MTSSNAME received from students and professionals, they plan to host a roundtable networking event annually for students.

Looking back at this year’s event Gadelrab’s takeaway was that it’s never too early to plan.

“I honestly think we could have started planning at like a year ago,” Gadelrab said.

Just like MIT-SNA ME other student organizations can reach out to Career Management Services for help in similar events.

“Any other student organizations that are interested in partnering with corporations they can contact career services and we’ll try to find the corporations to help them.

Some industries are easier than others locally you know,” Gaynor said.

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Taking a step back to move forward

Photo by Nathaniel Ashton

Senior ROTC cadets explore the boundaries of the battlefield

Kevin boodoosingh \\ Contributing writer The moment Master Sergeant (MSG) Stafford began wa lk ing t he grounds, he couldn’t help but feel humbled.

The eerie and silence could not have been any more sobering.

Just knowing that he was at the infamous Andersonville civil war prison camp was enough to make him swallow his breath, but the realization of knowing 13,000 American soldiers lost their lives beneath his very feet was a feeling he said he will not forget.

MSG John D. Stafford, senior military instructor U.S. Army ROTC, together with Capt. Sheiloh Carlos, assistant professor of military science U.S. Army ROTC and Robert Taylor, head of School of Arts and Communication, accompanied the senior ROTC cadets on their battle analysis.

“As an army ROTC cadet, when you’re a senior the army requires you to do a battle analysis where you go to a battle site and walk the actual ground and explain various aspects of it and see what you can learn by physically being there,” Taylor said.

The cadets visited many sites in Georgia with each containing a different aspect to their analysis.

The sites included theAndersonville National Historic Site, Fort Benning and Pickett's Mill Battlefield Site.

Within those sites were various battlegrounds and museums that the cadets had the opportunity to interact with, which included the National Prisoner of War Museum and the National Infantry Museum and Soldier Center.

“We focused on the logis-

tics not the politics of the civil war battlegrounds. Each cadet talked about what happened and about what decisions were made and how they would have done it differently. Interpersonal skills were highly developed,” Stafford said.

Carlos also explained that the focus was really on the tactical and technical side of these events.

“Having the cadets actually walk the grounds and feel what it means to be a leader and what an actual assault really is like and how it feels, really gives them a new perspective and ultimately prepares them for anything the United States Army asks of them in the future,” Carlos said.

Besides t he infa mous Andersonville battleground, the group also got the opportunity to hike Pickett’s Mill.

“We spent several hours going over the battle that was fought there and I can assure you the three mile hike was not easy,” Taylor said.

“You want to learn about a battle, you can look at maps, you can look at pictures, but there’s no substitute for walking the ground yourself.”

Indiaella Kemm-Pineiro, senior cadet ROTC, said that it was truly a cool opportunity.

“Even though I did my prior research it did not compare to actually being there and having Dr. Taylor walk us through the grounds. It was an awesome experience also because all the cadets bonded even more.” Kemm-Pineiro said.

Not only did the cadets learn and experience a lot but so did Carlos and Stafford.

“Having Dr. Taylor there really enlightened a lot of things for me and that’s coming from 24

years of military experience,” Stafford said.

For Carlos, it was the experience with the cadets that he said left him in awe.

“The cadets showed much appreciation; there’s something about taking what you’ve learned and presenting it. You can use powerpoint all you want and have as many classroom meetings as you want, but being on the ground, well there is a true sense of awe and wonder when you’re there.”

Taylor also shared that same sentiment.

“I love teaching and I

Group photo by the Ranger Memorial Fort Benning, Georgia. always learn as much as they do from going to these places.

There was nothing better than talking about military engage-

ment when you’re actually on the grounds where it all happened.” he said.

“The field is the classroom.”

Cadets being lectured about the battle analysis and the history of the cite.

Robert Taylor explains to cadets about the history of the cite.

Find yourself twiddling your thumbs during the week?

WE HAVE SOMETHING FOR YOU TO DO.

Join the weekly Crimson meetings on Thursday nights at 6:30 p.m. in the newsroom (the back enterance of Grissom Hall) to snag a story and a slice of pizza.

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Fried (Apple) Pies Jordan Densler \\ Contributing Writer Small dorm room kitchens can make cooking a challenge.

Very few dorm rooms have full sized ovens, some don’t have ovens at all. This makes baking say hmmm... a pie impossible, but our friend Rose, previous Florida Tech cohort and Real Food Real Kitchens guest, has a solution... fried pies!

These mini versions of a classic apple pie require no oven and are easy to make.

They are a perfect cure for that sweet treat craving and can easily be prepared from the comfort of your dorm room.

Be sure to watch season two of Real Food Real Kitchen's on Amazon Prime to see Rose's episode. Also visit realfoodrealkitchens.com for more information! Enjoy!

Frying Ingredients Grapeseed or peanut oil Melted butter Sugar

recipe by Rose Petralia Dough INGREDIENTS

• Two apples

• Two cups of flour • Four tablespoons of melted butter • One half teaspoon of salt • Five to six tablespoons of water

Directions • Mix together ingredients and knead in to a

• Juice from half a lemon • One-third to one-half a cup of sugar • One teaspoon cinnamon • One teaspoon cardamom • One-half teaspoon of nutmeg teaspoon of salt • Two tablespoon of flour • One tablespoon butter

firm dough.

• Cover with a damp cloth and let rest 40 minutes.

• Knead rested dough until smooth and springy, roll into 6 even-sized balls, then roll out into flat rounds.

• Stack rounds on a plate, and cover with the damp cloth while making the filling.

Directions Heat a half-inch of oil in a frying pan on medium heat.

Oil is hot enough when a

filling INGREDIENTS

dough scrap bubbles and browns within five seconds—if it burns, the oil is too hot.

Add the filled pies and

cook until lightly browned, turning once.

Remove to a cloth-lined plate and turn the oil down to

Directions • Mix ingredients together.

• Add a heaped spoonful to one side of each dough round.

• Fold over to create a half-moon, then crimp the edges to seal in the filling. medium-low.

Fry a second time until golden on each side.

Remove to the plate, brush

with melted butter and sprinkle with granulated sugar.

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Melbourne air show thrills Florida Tech students KAT redner \\ Contributing Writer “America’s Ambassadors in Blue” held their season opening performance at the Orlando Melbourne International Airport. Mazzanti said, “My favorite part of the airshow was probably the Thunderbirds doing a high-speed flyover.”

Loops, barrel rolls, high alphas and slow rolls were just a few of the Thunderbirds tricks for the show.

Khemari Howard, a multiplatform journalism student at Florida Tech admired the Thunderbirds and said that planes are one of man’s greatest creations.

“Coming from the Caribbean, I’ve always heard of them and how spectacular their show is, but seeing them in person is a completely different experience,” Howard said. “Just watching them use the planes not for commercial use, but for stunt flying—seeing some of the tricks they do, passing as close as they do to each other, doing loops, and turns and whatnot—it’s amazing to think that there is someone actually in that vehicle.”

Interactive displays were also featured. Attendees were able to climb their way inside of an KC-135T Stratotanker— and not only sit in the aircraft, but learn how one of the crewmembers refuel other aircraft as well.

In addition to the static displays, a VIP viewing area and photo pit was also available for those wanting a closer look at the aircraft being showcased.

Flor ida Tech st udents of various degrees and ages attended this annual airshow including David Rochelle, a master’s student at Florida Tech, who admired the wide range of aircraft.

“I spent some time around big-piston radial engine aircraft when I was little, so the B-17 flying around with four of those engines singing was definitely an attention-grabber for me,” Rochelle said. That Merlin engine in the P-51 is tough to beat for sound though and she really is a beautiful aircraft. They are both like works of art to me.”

One thing that the airshow attendees had in common according to Samir Kazi, an aerospace engineering student at Florida Tech was a love for aircraft.

“My favorite thing about the airshow was probably the fact that I was surrounded by massive aircraft nerds who were just as excited as me to see all the aircraft at the event,” Kazi said.

The Thunderbirds during their 2018 Melbourne Airshow preformance.

Photo by Jonathan Orphanidis

Northrop Gruman's B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber.

Photo by Nathaniel Ashton

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“My favorite part of the airshow was probably...

the Thunderbirds doing a high-speed flyover.”

- Filippo Mazzanti

The Thunderbirds.

Photo by Nathaniel Ashton

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Movie review: Every Day Lexi bettermann \\ staff writer Every Day is a slow love story about a teenager learning to love, including hidden messages about diversity and appreciating inner beauty.

Based on David Levithan's New York Times bestseller, “Every Day” tells the story of Rhiannon, a 16-year old girl who falls in love with a mysterious soul named "A" that takes on a different body every day.

This movie is not your everyday teenage love story, though some of the messages are the same. Ever y Day embraces the idea that love is more than skin deep.

The writer, Jesse Andrews,

and director, Michael Sucsy, take a different angle by having Rhiannon and A work each day to find each other, not knowing what or who the next day will bring.

The more the two fall in love, the more the realities of loving someone who is a different person every 24 hours takes a toll, leaving Rhiannon and A to face the hardest decision either has ever had to make.

Since I haven't read the novel, I cannot comment on the film's accuracy to the book. Unfortunately, neither Sucsy nor Andrews shed light on some of the questions that you cannot help pondering

throughout the movie.

I believe that they don’t a n s w e r t he s e q ue s t ion s because it would take away from the romance of the film.

Rhiannon finds herself adapting on a daily basis to her lover's choice of bodies, not only racially different, but sexually different too.

It had a similar feel of an indie film with its experimental storyline and its willingness to cross gender boundaries.

O vera ll t his f ilm was refreshing and different. It was a shorter movie, only 95 minutes, so it’s perfect for a date night or a girls’ night out. If you are looking for a different love story, this would be it.

Photo by www.refinery29.com

Take a break from reality: A spoiler-free movie review David Thompson \\ staff writer Ready Player One is an unexpected delight. The sheer

amount of twists and turns throughout the film will keep you on the edge of your seat and is one of the quickest twohour movies these eyes have

ever beheld.

To begin, I came in to this film with fairly low expectations. The trailers made it seem like a cookie-cutter futuristic

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adventure that would promote you to turn your brain off for a couple hours.

I couldn’t have been more wrong. Ready Player One is thought provoking and really makes you look at the world we live in and where it is going.

Not exactly what I was expecting from a movie about video games, pop culture and allaround nerdy goodness.

I was stunned with the look of the reality altering game, “The Oasis.” You immediately feel fully immersed in this virtual realty.

The vibrant colors and attention to detail really bring “The Oasis” to life and begins to make you forget about reality.

The slew of action scenes were one of the most pleasant surprises of this Sci-Fi flick.

Between fast-paced racing scenes and brightly colored fights, Ready Player One delivers on the high intensity action that I long for.

The lead man, Tye Sheridan, starring as “Parzival” does exactly that, leads.

His performance as his animated avatar in “The Oasis” and his real-life self were both equally impressive. One of the most unique aspects of Ready Player One is how the virtual world and the real world interact.

This original concept gave the creative team a lot of material to work with when it came to the humor of the film. While

this movie isn’t a comedy by any means, I felt like most of the jokes were expertly sprinkled throughout the movie.

Critically acclaimed director, Steven Spielberg, shows his range in Ready Player One. After his latest film, The Post, this is a complete change up from that star-studded drama.

Spielberg put his creativity on full display with pop culture cameos and Easter eggs galore.

In the spirit of keeping this review spoiler-free I won’t say anything other than Spielberg gives the term “Easter Egg” a whole new meaning.

Supporting characters “Art3mis” (played by Olivia Cooke) and “Aech” (played by Lena Waithe) shine as their in-game characters and live-action counterparts.

Cooke and Sheridan have probably the most convincing chemistry in the film. It’s incredible how their rapport in “The Oasis” and in the real world both feel equally genuine and authentic.

Spielberg does a masterful job of transitioning, clashing and morphing the virtual and real world.

What makes Ready Player One a good, if not, great movie, is the myster y throughout.

When you think the story is going to zig, it zags.

It’s hard not to get fully invested in the characters as you go through this escalating electronic expedition.

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Post-showcase hangover projected to last through April Doug schoeller \\ COPY editor The a nnua l Nor t h rop Gr umma n Senior Design Showcase took place last Friday and area senior Doug Billings woke up the next morning with a brutal hangover. Reports show that due the overbearing climax of the showcase, his hangover will be present for the remainder of the semester.

“He will be lackadaisical and lethargic for what seems to be the rest of the falling action of Spring 2018,” said faculty member, Diana Keaton from CAPS. “It’s a common symptom when the climax of everything, when all exceedingly-high expectations are

on the line, are due a month before the semester is even over.”

Lingering effects of the post-showcase hangover also include a lack of motivation to do anything at all.

“Dude, like doing work is exhausting, but now even thinking about doing the work is also exhausting,” said Billings. “I take a nap before even attempting to do my math homework.” “ The reason for this stark contrast in attitude before and after showcase is because showcase is ranked to be incredibly more important than anything else,” said Keaton. “Pressure stemming ultimately from a multi-bil-

lion dollar sponsoring company tends to be much more effective than self-propelled motivation to pass.”

“Every year we are proud to present this showcase to put a spotlight on students making their first steps to appease wealthy corporations,” said President McCay. “Getting blasted-out drunk after a successful project or proposal is just part of the process.”

At press time, hungover students struggling to recover have together voiced the message #trusttheprocess as they still have to prepare for final exams worth upwards of 30% of their grades.

Doug Billings after senior design showcase.

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Sara Grenier, senior, running with the ball.

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Sara Grenier, lacrosse player, setting records Marquise Lewis \\ Contributing writer Senior, Sa ra Grenier, became the first woman in women’s lacrosse to amass 200 career goals in Florida Tech history on March 30 against CSU-Pueblo.

“It made me proud of myself and my team, just to see how far we’ve come as a program since year one,” Grenier said. “The support I felt from my family, friends and teammates was amazing.”

Goal 200 was her second goal of four that she had against CSU-Pueblo.

“It’s a hard record to hit and it’ll be a hard record to break,” Corinne Desrosiers, Florida Tech women’s lacrosse head coach, said.

Gren ier ha s b e en a n impactful and dominating player for the Panthers since her freshman year. Tallying 60 goals her freshman year, 44 goals her sophomore year and 58 goals her junior year. She currently has 48 goals this year and with three games remain-

ing, not including conference play.

These accolades don’t go unwatched as she was selected to First Team All-SSC each year. Just last year, Grenier was named a Second Team IWLCA All-American.

Taylor Marshall, an assistant coach for the Florida Tech women’s lacrosse team, said “For the two seasons I’ve been here, she’s been very impactful as a player. And I know the two seasons when the program was starting her freshman year, she’s been a key player in their

success.”

The commentators, fans, coaches and even players were aware of her closing in on the big 200. “ I think I was on the sideline and I heard coach (Desrosiers) saying ‘one more for Sara’ then we knew she was almost there,” said Stephanie Stuart, a senior goalie for the Panthers.

The 200 goal mark isn’t stopping Grenier from grinding for more goals. As she just scored five goals the game after against Tampa on April 4 and

three more goals against Rollins on April 7.

Grenier and he Panthers are set to take on Palm Beach Atlantic on Wednesday on April 11 at their home in West Palm Beach, Florida.

How much more can Grenier add to the 210 career goals she already has?

“We will have freshmen coming in next year with a chance to start and do what she did, but it’s going to be hard for anyone to come close to it,” Stuart said.

Florida Tech’s Ultimate Frisbee team seeks to secure a spot at nationals Markeema Crawford \\ s ta f f w r i t e r Coming off of one of their best regular seasons yet, 28th ranked Florida Tech’s Ultimate Frisbee team will face off against Georgia College in a regional matchup.

“Yeah, I’m feeling confident about the tournament. It’s going to be really interesting this year,” Jacob Clary, a veteran on the team, said.

“Georgia college- they’re not as good as they use to be in the past, but they still have some heavy hitters.”

The team is part of the Florida conference. This year instead of having a confer-

ence tournament, all teams in t he sout hea st reg ion, which includes Florida Tech, will automatically advance to regionals, which is set to begin on April 28.

The tournament will consist of seven games in one weekend, where teams will start off with pool play (where teams compete for positions in brackets) the first day and the make there way into bracket play as the weekend continues.

Clary said that having conferences is the warm up they need to test out the other guys in their division, but since regionals is combined this year, things are different.

“In regionals it’s either you win or you lose and that’s all

there is to it,” he said, “so we’ll see how it all plays out.”

Brendan Sheets, a freshman on the team who had competed in high school before coming to Florida tech, is excited to be competing in his first regional tournament at the collegiate level.

“I just think the tournament is going to great,” he said.

“And I’m hopeful that we’ll be able to hold our own during regionals.”

Seamus Burns, a junior on the team sai that overall he is very confident about the capabilities of all his teammates across the board and sai he does believe that they have a shot of getting that bid to nationals by winning the

regional tournament.

“The older guys on the team have been good since I joined the team and the younger guys coming off the bench are really good too,” Burns said.

“So, it's pretty much evens out top to bottom, so anyone who is out there I am confident

in.”

Reed Antonich, a captain on the team also feels confident about the tournament and the team’s capabilities.

“We been able to play in Division I tournaments as a Division III team and hold our own against some of the top teams in the country and even beat some of t he se big ger schools,” Antonich said. “We’re just a bunch of goons who all love the same sport.”

Ultimate Frisbee's practice.

Photo by Markeema Crawford