Description
BOOST (Building Optimized Outcomes in Sports Technology) is a sports engineering club at Iowa State University. The club dives into a variety of sports with scientific and problem-solving mindsets, to study past engineering marvels in sports, as well as creating new technology to be used in sports. The organization strives to provide students with opportunities to have hands on engineering experience, group projects, and connections to current sporting goods companies. Students can expect a variety of meeting types, from slideshows explaining how the weight of a bowling ball affects how many pins are knocked down to a hands-on experiment attempting to create a baseball with maximum spin.
Affiliations
This organization has no affiliations.
Constitution / Tier
Membership Information
| Student Members |
7 |
| ISU Members |
0 |
| Non-ISU Members |
0 |
| Allowed Members |
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| Allowed Officers |
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| Membership Qualifications |
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| Membership Restrictions |
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| Elections/Selection |
Elections are held yearly, with the potential for exceptions if a student wishes to participate in a semester abroad or similar. |
| Meetings |
Meetings will be held once a week. |
Description of Regular Meetings/Activities
| Meetings may consist of various types. Meetings occurring in back-to-back weeks may consist of similar content observed in 2 different ways (observing and performing).
Examples of meeting types may include:
Analyzing sports technologies using slideshows/videos
Analyzing sports technologies using physical demonstrations
Building new sports technologies
Building budget sports technologies for donation
Guest speakers from current sporting goods companies |
Description of Special Events