[[A Space Elevator Solstice]] was the SolSeed Winter Solstice celebration for 2016, held mainly at [[Ben]]'s apartment in Redmond, WA. It was Ben's idea for an alternative to [[Eric]]'s tradition of [http://www.meetup.com/SolSeed-Ottawa/events/91063842/ launching rockets on the Winter Solstice], and was inspired by the [http://www.isec.org/sec/index.php/family-science-fest space elevator climber contests for kids] at Seattle's annual [http://spacewiki.com/Space_Elevator_Conference Space Elevator Conference].
== Attendees ==
* SolSeed [[members]] and [[friends]]
** [[Ben]], [[Brandon]], [[Shelley]], [[Sequoia]], and [[Ren]], in person.
** [[Eric]] and [[Patrick]], via Skype from their new home in Gatineau, Quebec, where they worked on their own LEGO climber but didn't finish it.
** [[Lion]], who stopped by for about an hour, mainly for some philosophical discussion.
* Members of the [http://www.meetup.com/Redmond-Sci-Fi-Fantasy-Book-Club/ Redmond Sci-Fi & Fantasy Book Club]
** Augusto, an engineer who works with quadcopters and Field Programmable Gate Array chips, whose input on the climber design and construction was pivotal.
** Dozie (short for Chidozie), who helped with food preparation as well as building and testing the climber.
** Rodrigo, who also played a major role in building the climber.
* Members of the Seattle-area space elevator community
** Bryan Laubscher, whose company, [http://odysseustech.com/ Odysseus Techonogies], works on developing carbon-nanotube fibers that could one day provide the necessary tensile strength to build an Earth-based space elevator.
** Michael Laine, founder and CEO of [http://liftport.com/ Liftport Group], which aims to build a Moon-based elevator, and his girlfriend Gwen, who organizes a seminar series and coaches artists on how to commercialize their work. They arrived as we were eating dinner and stayed after everyone else had left.