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
Photo courtesy of WCCO-TV
News
Career Spotlight: Astrodynamics Specialist
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...
Career Spotlight: Cybersecurity Engineer
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...
What’s Your STEM Archetype? Take the Quiz!
Everyone has a little bit of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) inside them. STEM is Being innovative Solving real world problems Thinking creatively Asking questions Connecting the dots Ready? Take our short quiz and discover your STEM...