Machine Learning Course: If you guys are interested in neural networks or logistic regression, check out the course below. It's free and pretty easy to follow, so even if you're a beginner you should be able to keep up. https://www.coursera.org/learn/machine-learning
Machine Learning Library for Python: The machine learning library demoed in the code is found here. You need both the numpy and scipy libraries for this library to work. http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
Software to determine drop trajectory: A team member from last year mentioned that this software could be used to track the payload after it is released from the plane. http://physlets.org/tracker/