A few weeks ago (or is it a few months? It’s hard to tell when you’ve been working at home under lockdown), I concluded an outreach and engagement project I led last year – designing, building, and launching a high-altitude balloon payload with a group of local high-schoolers. In truth, Read more…
Last month, I had the good fortune to teach a course on the basics of space systems analysis. The catch? The students were a group of gifted middle- and high-schoolers. This came about through an annual program run by Purdue’s Gifted Education Resource Institute, where high-achieving schoolchildren spend part of Read more…
This past weekend marked the arrival of one of my favourite days of the year as a member of the Purdue community – Space Day! Now in its twenty-second year, Space Day is Purdue’s largest single-day STEM advocacy event. This year, over 700 students in grades 3-8 from across Indiana Read more…