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Students Explore Aerospace at YPSE 

This fall, science students and members of the Aerospace Club attended the Young Professionals, Students, and Educators conference (YPSE) to expand their aerospace knowledge and make connections with fellow high schoolers, college students, and industry professionals. Rocky Jiang ’27 also presented his award-winning Project LUMAX: Resilient Lunar Habitation, which is a versatile habitat to establish a resilient long-term presence on the Moon.

Throughout the day, the students embraced the opportunity to dive deeper into their studies and support Jiang in his presentation. They attended a keynote on the state of DEIA in aerospace and a technical panel on the importance of national security space for the United States. The group also got to see a demo of the NASA Dragonfly, a rotorcraft that will explore a variety of locations of Titan, one of Saturn’s moons, and connect and compare notes with the University of Maryland Rocket Team.

Dave Collins, EHS science teacher and STEM coordinator, was impressed by the group’s initiative to make time to pursue their aerospace passions outside of the classroom — especially the day before Thanksgiving break when they had full workloads back on campus. “It was great to hear presenters give the students ideas on not only how to break into this industry,” Collins said, “but also how to set yourself up for success in any technical field.”
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