Starbird Association
Who We Are
Advocate for SpaceNorth
SpaceX. NASA. Blue Origin - We want your offices here. We're going out into our business community and having conversations about Minnesota as SpaceNorth. We hope to develop strategic partners that can be on board with our SpaceNorth mission as a benefit to the Minnesota business landscape and the people who live and work here.
Aerospace & STEM Events
We plan to host or collaborate with other organizations in Minnesota to host aerospace and STEM activities and events. In our mission to build a technically curious workforce, we want to engage Minnesota youth in interactive and fun aerospace and STEM activities and events.
Supporting Anoka County Composite Squadron Cadet Programs
We support the innovative youth leadership programming at the Anoka County Composite Squadron Civil Air Patrol. As Starbird supports aerospace and STEM with youth, we want to support the needs of an organization that shares our goals.
In the Media
2019 Events
Jan 20 SpaceFest at The Bell Museum
April 10-14 President Mary Albright attends the Space Symposium and the StellarXplorers National Finals in Colorado
Weekend of May 4-5 - Spring Presentation and Event in the Twin Cities
July 20 - Lunar Shindig - Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.
Watch the cadets of the Anoka County Composite Squadron launch rockets.
Take your photo in our Moon photo booth. Munch on Moon Oreos.
9am-11am at the Centennial Elementary West Field - Blaine, MN
Aug 22 - STEM Day at the MN State Fair
Fall 2019 - The Amazing Space Race
News
2020 State of NASA Review
2020 State of NASA event at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL was a fabulous experience. It was interesting to see all the different areas that make up space exploration and reiterates there are so many roles that make everything possible. The astronaut...
5th year for #DressForSTEM on Pi Day 3.14.2020
2020 is the 5th year of the #DressForSTEM movement on Pi Day 3.14 (March 14). It began solely within the female broadcast meteorology community, but it expanded to include any females working in STEM careers. The goal of the movement is to inspire young women...
Perseverance is the name of the new Mars Rover
Announced today, Perseverance is the name of the new robotic rover headed to Mars in 2020. Here's the blurb from NASA: NASA chose seventh-grader from Virginia as winner of the agency's "Name the Rover" essay contest. Alexander Mather's entry for "Perseverance" was...