Education

Talent Development

John M. Garvey
Project Lead/CEO, Garvey Spacecraft Corporation
Long Beach, CA 90814
County: Los Angeles
jmgarvey@garvspace.com
http://www.garvspace.com/

Objective:
The Space-Related University Programs project is designed to provide space-related experiential university internships and mentoring programs to college and lower level students across the California Innovation Corridor. Students will be engaged in research-focused balloon flights, payload development, and rocket launches. Students will gain real experience in testing, integration, rocket development and launching, student payload development, and then create a report of their results, and give a presentation of results at an annual conference.

Desired Outcomes:
- Coordinate development and supervise integration of payloads for K-12 students.
- Coordinate development and supervise integration of payloads for University students.
- Provide initial flight testing with high-altitude balloon flights and supervise the development of student payloads.
- Support students in data analysis and reporting of their results.
- Sponsor an annual conference for students to present their results and interact with other students in the Program.
- Assist with planning future payloads, and provide suggestions for improvements in payloads and payload integration.
- Provide opportunities to build and integrate a rocket as well as payload integration.

Contact Scarlett Carmona at scarmona@amtech-usa.org