In episode 17, we met John McClure, who among many outstanding achievement has been a big supporter of aerospace education. He was instrumental in the formation of Nebraska’s first CBT, and their satellite, the Big Red Sat will fly in a few years. Today, Kevin and I are joined by two members of that team to share more about how they formed a unique coalition of middle school, high school and university students who had a desire to go to space. We will Meet Joel Murch Shafer-- a junior at UNL majoring in computer and electrical engineering. He is also an active member of their Aerospace Experimental Payloads team or AXP and this is how their love of CubeSats began. Through their mentorship, our second guest,— rising ninth grader Elsa Meyer was invited to join. These two amazing individuals are great examples of how mentoring is a great educational tool as both the novice and more experienced members of their team both learn in the process of doing real world aerospace. We look forward to following them as they continue to build, design and launch cube sats.

Stay tuned after the show for our takeaway

[email protected] (for AXP website)

[email protected] (to reach Joel and the BigRedSat team)

Bigredsat.org (website for BigRedSat)