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 Resources

We support Minnesota-based aerospace and STEM activities and events. In our mission to build a technically curious workforce, we want to provide resources for Minnesota teens to explore STEM careers, scholarships and internships.

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

Anoka CAP Cadet Yelizar Dergachev featured on WCCO-TV (CBS affiliate) as Minnesota’s Young Sheldon

Yelizar Dergachev Anoka CAP Cadet StellarX

Photo courtesy of WCCO-TV

News

Math Week Fun Fact #2 – A Jiffy is a Real Thing

Have you ever heard someone say, "I'll be there in a jiffy?" It's not a figure of speech. A jiffy is a real unit of time - 1/100th of a second to be precise. The earliest technical usage was in the late 19th century by Gilbert Newton Lewis. He proposed a unit of time...

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Math Week Fun Fact #1 – The Truth About Zero

The number zero does not have its own Roman numeral, but the word nulla (the Latin word meaning "none") was used by medieval scholars in lieu of 0. Dionysius Exiguus was known to use nulla alongside Roman numerals in 525 AD. Dividing by zero can also get you in a lot...

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