# @ucsc on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2019-06-12T18:13:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UC Santa Cruz (@ucsc) — https://gondola.cc/ucsc

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#SlugStories Commencement 2019 Special Feature "Without a doubt the coolest thing I have worked on at UC Santa Cruz was the SlugSat project. For the last nine months I have been part of the effort to design, build, and test a working satellite that will someday be sent into orbit to facilitate ham radio communication and conduct research for the Santa Cruz Particle Physics Institute. SlugSat has given me the opportunity to develop my skills not just in engineering but also in team management and technical communication. Building a satellite on a budget is not an easy task, and much of my work has been to develop solutions that require minimal money, space, and power. Much of my work has been on low-power, error-tolerant memory for use with the satellite’s high-energy particle physics experiment. This project, once launched, will provide the Santa Cruz Institute of Particle Physics with insight into lower energies of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes then have ever previously been observed.

At UC Santa Cruz I learned a lot of practical, hands-on skills that have really given me the tools to pursue projects on my own as well as to excel at those that were part of my classes."
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Zee Moffatt is a student at Baskin School of Engineering and is earning their B.S. in robotics with a minor in electrical engineering. Moffatt was a longtime officer and chair of the UCSC IEEE Student Group hosting UC Santa Cruz’s only robotics hackathon, Hack-A-Bot, and only student-run engineering conference, the Technology of Today and Tomorrow Student Conference. They also participated in the creation of the Baskin Engineering Student Leadership Council, a group dedicated to providing feedback to the School of Engineering from the student organizations and the student body. They will continue studying further fields of robotics with a focus on space systems or autonomous robotics and hopes to work in the space industry. 
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📸: lunar_lindsey 
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#ucsc #ucsantacruz #stem #commencement #commencement2019 ucscengineering #grad #graduation #graduation2019 #classof2019

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