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
Math Week Fun Fact #5 – Googol is a real thing
Yes, I didn't have a typo. Googol is a real thing. A real number, actually. It's a 1 followed by 100 zeros which reflect the infinite amount of search on the internet. The term was invented by Milton Sirotta, the 9-year nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner, who had...
Math Week Fun Fact #4 – Pi and Pizza are Related in Math
Did you know... The mathematical volume of pizza....is pizza. If z = radius of a pizza, and If a = height of a pizza, then π * radius² * height = Pi * z * z * a = Pizza
Math Week Fun Fact #3 – How long have humans been doing math?
Markings on animal bones show that humans have been doing math since around 30,000 BC.