Post-Gazette Features CCAC Student Spaceflight Competition
CCAC students from the three winning teams with Dr. Quintin Bullock, CCAC president, and Dr. Justin Starr, CCAC endowed professor of advanced technologies. Left to Right: Dr. Quintin Bullock, Jared Mott, Isaac Brennan, Yasseen Sabil, Basem Majed, Hunter Sasse, Patrick Terry, Cole Gilbert, Daniel Roth, Jason Gomes and Dr. Justin Starr.
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This fall, 12 teams of CCAC students have been hard at work designing experiments for the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program, which will send one winning project into orbit in 2023. On Thursday, Nov. 10, the teams gathered before an audience at the newly-opened Moonshot Museum, where a panel of space experts judged the students’ presentations and selected three winning teams to proceed to the final round of the competition.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette featured the event in an article on Nov. 11 that detailed each of our teams’ areas of research. Their reporter highlighted CCAC’s role as one of just three community colleges selected to participate in this national program, noting that CCAC stood out for choosing to open the competition to students beyond the typical STEM fields.