BOREALIS is a student run project which involves sending a high altitude balloon about 100,000 feet into the atmosphere as a platform for conducting experiments. We, (10 middle school students, 1 high school teacher, 5 undergraduate students, and UM’s Dept. of Physics and Astronomy’s outreach coordinator ) have been working on this project for over 1 and 1/2 years, meeting for 2 hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays during the summers and only on Thursday’s during the academic year. Our platform consists of a command box which carries our power supplies, two GPS systems for tracking the balloon, and a digital camera. We also have an experiment box, a parachute for descent, and, of course, the balloon. We have had 5 successful flights in 2005 while claiming the Montana State high altitude record of 113,000 feet. Our experiment box has carried an O2 detector, ozone detector, Geiger counter, temperature sensor, relative humidity sensor, and a pressure sensor. More flights will follow, carrying hydrometers, particle detection equipment, and more! There is a lot of important research to be done at the wispy frontiers of our atmosphere! In the end we hope to utilize our experimental data and experiences in building projects for the Montana State Science Fair in the spring of 2006. We would like to particularly thank The Montana Space Grant Consortium for giving us guidance on platform construction and the financing for this project.