by Mary | Jan 13, 2019 | Starbird Log, STEM
We’re one week from Space Fest. Here’s our sneak peek video #1...
by Mary | Jan 9, 2019 | Career Spotlight, STEM
Deborah Theisen Tell us about your career. I’m a Clinical Project Coordinator with Medtronic in the Atrial Fibrillation Solutions (AFS) business unit. My job is to support the active and upcoming AFS clinical research studies. I also manage. real time auditing of the...
by Mary | Jan 2, 2019 | Starbird Log
Photo courtesy: Notable Quotes Happy National Science Fiction Day. Why point this out? So many every day life innovations have their roots in science fiction. Let’s consider merely one genre: Star Trek As you look through the history of Star Trek, we see the...
by Mary | Dec 30, 2018 | STEM
As we move into 2019, let’s take a peek at some of the predictions for science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) and aerospace. NBC News recently did a great article on some of these predictions. Let’s check out some of the highlights:...
by Mary | Dec 21, 2018 | Space, STEM
One of our themes for 2019 is The Year of Apollo. 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. Throughout 2019, we’ll look at how the Apollo program impacted our understand of science, technology, engineering and math and what the next steps...
by Mary | Dec 3, 2018 | Career Spotlight
Dr. Sonja Ann Jones Tell us about your career: I’m a Senior Sales Engineer with Bay Dynamics as well as a professor of Mathematics, Statistics, Information Technology and Business at California Miramar University. I work in cyber analytics and big data. What do you...
by Mary | Nov 20, 2018 | Space
The landing site for the Mars 2020 rover will be Jezero Crater. From NASA’s press release: “The landing site in Jezero Crater offers geologically rich terrain, with landforms reaching as far back as 3.6 billion years old, that could potentially answer important...
by Mary | Nov 16, 2018 | Scholarships, STEM
This is what the world needs – funding for students to go to college to study STEM and make a difference in the world. Here’s the link: Lockheed Martin STEM Scholarship Program Here’s the skinny: Calling all STEM Scholars! Lockheed Martin has...
by Mary | Nov 12, 2018 | Career Spotlight
The first time I knew Astrodynamics was a career was when I watched The Martian with Matt Damon. In that movie, Astrodynamics Specialist Rich was the one who solved the return trajectory problem and got the spacecraft back to Mars. Dynamics is a familiar engineering...
by Mary | Nov 11, 2018 | Starbird Log
Where else can you find an industry that has 0% unemployment? Pretty much nowhere else but Cybersecurity. That’s right; zero unemployment. In fact, by 2019, there will be 2 million open cybersecurity positions worldwide. Data needs to be secured everywhere. From...
