High altitude balloon projects have become increasingly popular with students and hobbyists in the past few years. Usually such balloon adventurers would gather up the necessary info and materials from a variety of sources. Now there are sites that offer complete kits. For example, the project in the previous post used hardware from High Altitude Science. That site offers weather ballooning kits and offers on line tutorials.
I guess everybody else has been pointing to the high altitude adventure of Lauren Rojas’s Hello Kitty doll. Her video has reached almost 769,000 views at the moment.
Besides the cuteness, it was quite an impressive project for a 13 year old