Here is a bit of a description of what took place with this particular launch.  It is impressive and there are some amateur events that happened but hey pretty good given their budget right!

“The camera falling out of the vehicle was accidental,” chuckles Andrew Greenberg, an adjunct professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at PSU who is involved in the club. “In this case, the plastic cracked and the camera came out at Mach 1.” The Raspberry Pi-based camera was intended to record from the side of the rocket’s payload module. “3D-printing plastic is not necessarily great for rockets, it turns out.”

The club’s goals are loftier than just getting a few miles above the Earth. When asked for the ultimate goal of the program, Greenberg is direct. He wants to put a nanosatellite into orbit.

“We try to build as much as we can,” says Greenberg. When you’re trying to build a space-bound rocket, the to-do list is impressive. “We’re building our own avionics system. We’re building our own software-defined radio GPS systems. We’re building our own Ethernet-based systems. We’re using WiFi as a long distance telemetry on the amateur radio band.”

We’re looking forward to seeing more from this group!

thanks to popularmechanics.com for the great info