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
10 Star Trek Technologies We Have Today
Happy Star Trek Day. On September 8, 1966 ~ 53 years ago ~ The USS Enterprise entered our world for the first time. "To Go Where No Man Has Gone Before..." What started as science fiction, has inspired space science in our world. Space science influences...
Let’s Stop Telling Kids They Can’t Be Good at Science (and Math)
Last year, Scott Kelly wrote, "I was a Bad Student Who Became an Astronaut. Let's Stop Telling People They Can't Be Good at Science" for Time Magazine. I love that he wrote this so let's look at it with the youth and teens lens on. Scott remarked: ...that they believe...
You Are The Artemis Generation
Celebrating Apollo 11's 50th anniversary led to the exciting announcement of the Artemis mission. Just like Apollo's mission inspired a generation to be curious for all mankind, we already find that the Artemis Generation has a label. When I visited NASA Johnson Space...