SpaceTrek Program Overview
Transform Your Future with SpaceTrek
SpaceTrek participants complete a space-related science mission under the guidance of aerospace engineers and master STEM educators. SpaceTrek aims to empower young women to pursue career interests and explore college and career opportunities in aerospace.
Participants will:
- Be immersed in an empowering environment with female role models where they will be motivated and exposed to space systems engineering
- Participate in a complete space mission life cycle
- Apply mathematics and scientific principles to aerospace applications
- Make observations and predictions, collect and interpret data, and draw conclusions about the atmosphere
- Build electronic devices that demonstrate the principles of circuits and electrical components
- Read and interpret electrical schematics and printed circuit board layouts
- Work in cooperative mission teams to build a small atmospheric (satellite-like) instrument
- Calibrate a scientific instrument to produce accurate data
- Use Microsoft Excel to produce graphical representations of data
- Assemble and operate a portable satellite tracking station
- Produce, prepare, and present a mission report to academic and industry professional
- Develop essential skills in cooperation, team building, communication, time management and action item prioritization
- Develop a growth mindset necessary for being successful as a professional and well-rounded individual
