Ever since Greyson was young, he has always been interested in history and the engineering behind it. Starting with ships and moving onto aircraft, by the time he was 13, he was captivated by the ideas of spaceflight, while at a UCLA camp. From that point onward, he began to focus his life on studying spaceflight and the science surrounding it. When he was 14, he got a telescope and began working on his new hobby of astrophotography. Later that year, Greyson came to Wildwood, where he joined WIE. In his first year, and began a project surrounding cubesatellites. He also worked with WISRD to help with Astrophotography. By 2025, Greyson was 15 and officially joined WISRD at the start of his 10th-grade year. In WISRD, he continues work on RECON as well as takes over the Cosmic ray and Radio astronomy labs. He is also currently the co-President of the Santa Monica astronomy club

Stardate: 11-17-2025

Today I worked on and finished about half of my Cosmic ray poster.

Stardate: 11-14-2025

Today was mostly telescope prep for Tuesday, but given the weather, it doesn’t look likely.

Stardate: 11-11-2025

Today, we finally finished the LOX flow rate calculations using the Bernoulli equation with the help of the Physics teacher, Scott.

Stardate: 11-10-2025

I worked with Megan and Leo to calcalute the flow rate of the pipes for the Cosmic Ray rocket howver had to halt that to due to too visitors who stopped by WISRD.

Stardate: 11-5-2025

Today we worked on setting up the new kiln for metal printing.

Stardate: 11-4-2025

Finalised the diamter of the rocket, at the moment we will be aiming for a 20cm diamter, height is still under discussion. icreatd an updated pathinfder mdoel the the 3d printer is down so I might need to print it myself.

Stardate: 11-3-2025

Just discussed rocekt dimesniosn and created a model to use as a Pathfinder

Stardate: 10-29-2025

Today we actually had our meeting. It was very useful and got us started in the right direction. My objectives for the next few days are calculating our potential thrust and printing a pathfinder for the

Stardate: 10-27-2025

Today was mostly just getting back in the swing of things and trying to organize a meeting between all the members of the Cosmic ray lab. However, I did have a discussion with a member of the hydroponics lab about valves and how we could integrate them onto our rocket.

Stardate: 10-22-2025

In Class was mostly prep for the big day. Dark matter night itself was a roller coaster. Telescope assembly happened later than expected due to a lack of available technicians from RECON; however, it was still assembled around 6, just at the start of Dark Matter night. However, the light pollution, both from the city, the street lights, and the flood lamps on decks, combined with the fact that the sun was still just below the horizon, meant we spent most of this time trying to align the spotter scope and getting the correct lenses for the telescope mounted. After this was completed, we attempted to align the spotter scope; however, our position on the deck was suboptimal, resulting in poor alignment that would plague us for the rest of the night. As the sun set around 6:30-45 ish we were finally able to attempt to align with Saturn. At this point, we also brought my smaller telescope out onto the deck. to allow smaller kids and other people to have a better chance at seeing Saturn. However, throughout the night we had trouble aligning with either on Saturn. I was mostly trying to align the much larger RECON telescope, and thus, the only people working on the smaller one were less experienced and unable to line it up. However, I managed to get the telescope manually lined up on Saturn (the light pollution negated the possibility of using stars to align.) The process was very difficult due to vibrations on the deck and the aforementioned lights. However, once we did align my doubts about the telescope for dark matter day were proved null by the large attendance that we got for the Saturn viewing. Despite several instances of us losing track of Saturn, I was usually able to align it until the very end were everyone went home. Overall, I was very happy with the results we had. I am hoping that next year we can refine the process, so I am very much looking forward to it.

Stardate: 10-21-2025

Considered different ways of sourcing carbon fiber and or steel for the rocket body. However, carbon fiber is unlikely to be the final material for the tank due to its temperature requirements. Additionally, I brought my telescope in from home in advance.

Stardate: 10-20-2025

We went to Spirit Halloween to pick up decorations for Dark Matter Day, and also calculated the proportions for the Cosmic ray rockets’ propellant with help from Megan. I am also still waiting for a response from Megan.

Stardate: 10-17-2025

Attempted to get help from Tim, the science chair, and the Chemistry teacher (Tim) with hopes of getting assistance with designing the rockets’ transfer tubes. He told me to email him, so i’ll have to wait for a response.

Stardate: 10-13-2025

Work on comsic ray rocket

Stardate: 10-10-2025

Today, we attempted to do an occultation of a Trojan named Diphobos. It is believed that it may have a moon. We only heard about this a few hours in advance, so only Guy, Joe, Mega, and I were present. We had several problems getting u the camera software, as our old computer had issues working in general (battery and updating), and our new one didn’t have the right license and drivers. However, we did manage to center our spotter scope.

Stardate: 10-9-2025

Discussed the mega document timeline that Guy wrote for the

Stardate: 10-7-2025

Today, Aiden helped me fix the Issue with the spotter scope on the RECON telescope. We did this by using a malet to mount the spotter scopes’ hold downs to the telescope. We are hoping this will make it easier on any follow-up attempts to attach the scope. I also discussed our plans to launch a cosmic ray detector on a custom-built rocket

Stardate: 10-6-2025

Leo was unfortunately not here today; however, I was able to catalog all of the telscope parts.

Stardate: 10-3-2025

Leo and I finished organizing all of the telescope parts. It looks so much better than before. However, we still have to work on cataloging what we have.

Stardate: 10-1-2025

I continued my work from the other day, but this time Leo was helping out with the process, and because of that, we got a lot more done, including finishing the cleaning of all the lenses as well as organizing them all into their own boxes and labelling them. I think Leo will be a good fit for the lab and seems interested in learning more about it. I look forward to working with him in the future.

Stardate: 9-30-2025

Today I worked on organizing and cleaning the equipment that we have for recon, including wires, adapters and lenses. I was able to reduce it down a good amount

Stardate: 9-29-2025

In class, I worked on ANSYS and continued discussions about the radio telescope as well as NASA’s Student Launch Initiative. Later that day, we headed out at 6:30 to train on the telescope with Joe Wise, Bob, Megan, and the new students who are part of Recon, Guy, Ivan, and Dash. They are all showing a lot of promise. The actual outing itself, however, was a very mixed affair. We attempted to practice aligning the telescope with the two-star alignment. We attempted to use Algenib as our first alignment point; however, a miscommunication led us to try to line up on Saturn. Ultimately, we lined up on a star, believing it to be Algenib. However, due to the fact that our spotter scope was unable to attach, we didn’t notice. We then aligned on Altair as our second star successfully; however, due to the first erroneous alignment, the telescope did not correctly slew onto our target of Saturn. After some confusion and trial and error searching the sky with the scope, we ultimately tried aligning again on what we thought was Algenib earlier. At this point, we suspected that we had made a mistake in identifying the object in the sky. So, after eyeballing the alignment, we were able to line up on Saturn. Due to dust on several of our lenses, we were unable to use the astro cam we have for the telescope; however, we were able to take several photos with phones and a DSLR, due to a lack of an adapter, and in the case of the phones, exposure, we didn’t get any clear photos. We then packed up for the night, leaving the telscope on the roof with a tarp.

Stardate: 9-26-2025

Today I talked to Bob about the Radio telescope and discussed the potential ways that we could continue the project.

Stardate: 9-22-2025

Watched a tutorial about Ansys.

Stardate: 9-18-2025

[Insert Rant about rain]

Stardate: 9-17-2025

Same as the previous day. Had to scrub the RECON training outing due to rain. Will have to reschedule to a non-holiday next week.

Stardate: 9-16-2025

Today I worked on my pitches for the Inquirer, as well as looked into Anyss as a CFD sim for the Areopsike lab.

Stardate: 9-12-2025

Today i went over NASA’s SCaN program or supporting Artemis II. I also was informed about Exoplanet watch from Bob and started to look into it for the future. Finally I also got a recommendation from Megan to look into SLOOH, and program that gives access to high quality telescopes remotely.

Stardate: 9-8-2025

Today I worked on my pitches for my inquirer article.

Stardate: 9-5-2025

Today I worked on scheduling all of the upcoming RECON occultations, as well as making plans to recruit several people to help with setting up the telescope.

Stardate: 8-29-2025

This week, I have been studying particles while waiting for labs to be assigned.

Stardate: 8-22-2025

This week, not much has happened, and I am just signing up for my projects for the year.

10-13-25

Time: 6:30-9:30

Target: Diphobis

Members: Joe W., Megan N., Greyson W., Guy G.

Result: Unsuccessful

9-29-25

Time: 6:30-9:30

Target: Saturn (Training)

Members: Joe W., Megan N., Bob, Greyson W., Guy G., Dash F., and Ivan N.

Result: Successful