understood that not everyone could select the most popular payload activity, such as
payload construction. Some students expressed disinterest about participating on the
hypothesis or final report team. Newman informed them that every group would need a
support team to provide the science and design plans. Not everyone enjoys the laborious,
tedious preparation, but similar to scientists, commitment and teamwork is essential for a
successful mission. Their team could not participate in a fun and exciting balloon launch
if their payload had poorly developed science objectives.