The 2016 Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium Elijah High Altitude Balloon Launch Team was comprised of students from the Milwaukee School of Engineering, UW-Fox Valley, and Carthage College. This year, a majority of the students involved were discovering the balloon launch experience for the first time. The 2016 Elijah Balloon Launch Team held a meeting for the new members to learn how all of the equipment worked through a practice run using the tools in a trial. The flight location was based on launch predictions ran in the week leading up to the launch. The balloon was launched from Clinton, Wisconsin, and landed near Darien, WI. This launch did not follow the launch prediction as accurately as expected, but the payload was recovered in safely and in good condition and launch reached a peak altitude of 31,021m, which was above our goal of 30,480m. Therefore, the launch was deemed successful.