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: 3-18-2026

Today I did prelimenary research on Neutrinos before attenidng the UCI Masterclass on Neutrinos tommorw with Leo, Guy, Bob, and Megan.

‍‍‍‍Stardate: 3-18-2026

Today, we set up a print for a baseplate holder adn I worked in Fusion on the rocket model

Stardate: 3-17-2026

Today I worked on reviewing the lab reviews that we got back, as well as working on my Inquirer article. Meanwhile, during the board meeting today, things got very heated as Guy attempted to get an exemption to allow him to run for the director position.

Stardate: 3-16-2026

Today I mostly worked on expanding the 3d model for our rocket. I spent a lot of time on the weekend watching tutorials so I could be more efficient today.

Stardate: 3-13-2026

Today I worked with Leo to assemble the riser for the H2D, including screwing parts together and attaching magnets. Suprisingly they did not require any

Stardate: 3-12-2026

Today I brought my own personal Kobra 3 V2 3d printer to repair the hotend, which was apparently malfunctioning. I got a warning on the printer’s screen that said the transistor for the hotend was damged depsite me replugling in the cable. However, after detaching it a second time at school, when in WISRD, the nozzles detached from the wire on the soldered side, making the issue clear, and forcing me to order new hotends as replacements.

Stardate: 3-10-2026

Today was again mostly sourcing for my articles and finding images. I also laid out the final groundwork for my astronomy club presentation, including a list of topics and some preliminary images, though some things like the launch count will have to be addressed. to wait till later when it will be more accurate a liand

Stardate: 3-9-2026

Today was mostly focused on writing my inquirer articles. Specifically, my first article, which I started back in November, had to be delayed because of the imminent rollout and launch of Artemis II, and the launch of Starship IFT-12, which plays a key role in my article.

Stardate: 3-7-2026

I spent today putting in more work on our Arduino board for our rocket’s flight computer. I also researched which components perform different roles best, such as gyroscopes, accelerometers, etc.

Stardate: 3-6-2026

Today I helped Leo build a motor using magnets and copper wiring.

Stardate: 3-4-2026

Today we unscrewed the bottom of the AMS part by part, intially we used Bambu Labs g’ guide article on their website. For most of the process, we were able to intuit what to do. We first unscrewed the hub from the bottom and removed it, then removed the motor, which the filament was jammed, after it became clear that attempts to free it from the gears would only result in tearing, leaving the filament in place. After unscrewing the motor we were able to remove the filament easily, allowing us to reassemble the AMS and test it out in an extrusion test . This initially failed when the back PTFE tube was ejected during filament loading; however, this was rectified with a firmer application of the aft PTFE tube.

Stardate: 3-3-2026

Today I initially continued work on the Auruino board, but had to detour to work on fixing the AMS 2 Pro for our H2S 3d printer. A flexible filament was loaded in and apparently clogged the system up. We tried pushing filament through and trying to inspect the clog through the back PTFE, allowing us to see that the filament was bunched up and would require more invasive disassembly to remove properly however, we did not have enough time to do that.

Stardate: 3-2-2026

Today, I mostly worked on troubleshooting different Arduino computer designs and finalising the parts list for it.

Stardate: 2-23-2026

Today, we mostly did research on different Arduino components for our flight computer.

Stardate: 2-3-2026

Today we rolled the box out too the roof

Stardate: 2-2-2026

Today We added insulation to the lid of the box to prevent rainwater from getting in during storms.

Stardate: 1-30-2026

Today we created a custom latch for the new second lock on the telscope box. Because we removed the hinge, we now need to secure the side that the hinge was once attached to. We took a preexisting latch and reshaped it with a hammer to get the right shape

Stardate: 1-27-2026

Today we worked on transferring the telscope and all its padding to the new box. Due to the way the lid used psitons to stay open, there wasn’t enough space to pull it out, so we removed both the hinges due to them not allowing the lid to become flush with the side of the box, thus making it extremely difficult to take a telscope out, and we removed

Stardate: 1-26-2026

Today I spent my time working on fixing the H2S 3d printer. The problem with the printer was that the gear was over-tensioned because something wasn’t allowing the printer to push filament through. We tried to diagnose the issue by first turning on the hotend to see if any filament slowly dripped out, but it didn’t. This led me to believe the issue was near the extruder gears. Because of this, I reached the gear rotation indicator for the extruder, then we tried running a short extrusion while holding the filament quick release, which allowed the fillment gear indicator to move forward again, but nothing was pushed through. This made me double-check the assumption that the problem was with the gears. Because of this, I removed the nozzle, and Megan swapped it with a new one that worked perfectly. I then shone a flashlight in the nozzle, revealing a mix of PLA and TPU in the nozzle. To clear it, I used the nozzle-clearing needle, and Bob helped by using desodering gun to help melt the filament as I pushed the needle in. Hopefully, this nozzle will be able to work again soon.

Stardate: 1-23-2026

Today we attached the boards to the box along with the wheels finnishing the box. To get both sides attached, we had Austin crawl inside the box while the box was on its side, and he held up the back plate of wood while we put nails through the bottom wood plate to hold them together. Keeping them aligned was very tedious, but once we had several through the board to hold them together, it went much faster, and we were able to roll the box out of the makers’ space for the first time.

Stardate: 1-21-2026

We finally finished making the holes in the board, and started attaching them with glue while lined up to the bottom board to make installation easier later on

Stardate: 1-16-2026

Today, we decided to cut out several wood blocks to fill in a gap between the exterior wood panel and the box floor. There will be two blocks per wheel due to the way the bottom of the box is separated by dividers. We will drill some holes through them to allow the final board attachment, hopefully by next class. The cancellation of the astronomy occultation due to low probability means we luckily won’t need it by tomorrow

Stardate: 1-13-2026

Today we began putting out a second board to go on the other side of the telescope crate. This is because after assessing the strength of the bottom, we found the plastic to be a lot more fragile than we had hoped, and decided that this would be a much safer option. We spent some time finding a new board and cutting its outline out, but once we were done we were able to drill out identical holes in the new board by lining them up. After that, we ran out of time. At the current pace, we should have it done by Friday or the first day back next week, depending on whether we change anything. Hopefully, this will mean it will be ready for the occultation on Saturday

Stardate: 1-12-2026

Today, we drilled the holes for the wheels before crawling inside the box to install the nuts on the other side of the screw securing the wheels, while Leo and Austin pushed the screws in from the other side

Stardate: 1-9-2026

Today, we cut the board down and marked the locations for the wheels.

Stardate: 1-7-2026

Today, we mostly focused on selecting electronics for our rocket, and we also measured the new box we got for our telescope, so that we could cut out a wooden board to put at the bottom to allow

Stardate: 1-6-2026

Might take a while to get back in the swing of things, but I’m looking forward to doing so.

~~~~2025~~~~

Stardate: 12-12-2025

Poster session went fine for the most part, we decided last minute to setup teh telescope, which we were able to do relatively quickly. The attendence to poster session was also a lot lower than I remember from last year and definitely less than this year’s Dark Matter day. Regardless, I think our posters ended up looking good and am happy with how it came out.

Stardate: 12-8-2025

Today I worked on my pitch for the Iqnueier, specifically the article surrounding the Artemis program.

Stardate: 12-5-2025

Today I’m working on preparations for the Poster session. Today’s poster session was very unexpected. Most of the setup, including the telescope and posters, went well; however, I had to rush to print Figure 3 for my poster. However, upon returning, very few people came; we only had 6ish people come by. I did find the speaker‘s talk to be very interesting, though.

Stardate: 12-2-2025

Mostly worked on my poster for the poster session.

Stardate: 12-1-2025

Today was mostly inputting the properties of 3D printed carbon fiber into Ansys so that we could simulate the strain put on it during flight

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