Welcome

Welcome to the Students Reaching Students work group. We're going to have a lot of work cut out for us this year. It should be, possibly, your first experience in setting up a prize foundation. Sound exciting? Remember, SpaceShipOne flew because the Ansari X Prize Foundation was set up by Peter Diamandis.

Please sign on to this group if you (in no particular order):
1) have experience with prize foundations, or want to try to start one.
2) have connections with potential prize funding-sources :)
3) want to help give an award in India at the SGC 2007!
4) need a project to help you get picked for the SGC 2007.
5) have ideas on what criteria to base a space-outreach award on.
6) want to meet the friends you'll meet in Hyderabad almost a full year early.

Please start by posting your name, the contact info you're comfortable with sharing (no phone numbers yet), where you go to school/work, and your country and city. Add your favorite pastry too.

Let's have fun, all!

This sounds gerat, I think it will be fun to do.

Hi All,

This is Ken Dyson(aka dysonsphere).
University of Waterloo, PhD Candidate, Gravitational and Work Physiology
Waterloo and Guelph, Ontario, Canada. (Home town: Montreal, Quebec)
Not really a "pastry guy".

Frank, think the Habs and Sabres meet in the playoffs? If so lets try to get ticks, no.

Info:
Name: Joshua Vincent Nelson
School: University of Arizona, Tucson Arizona USA.
Major: Aerospace Engineering
Minors: Astronomy, Physics, Planetary Science
Favorite quote:

"We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of our exploring
will be to arrive where we started
and know the place for the first time."
- T.S. Eliot

Greetings all! Lets try to get more people in here and discussing!

I am Brian Oliver

I received as B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Arkansas Tech University (Russellville, AR).
I work for Ad Astra Rocket Company, Houston TX
www.adastrarocket.com

I am currently working on a Master's degree in electrical engineering at University of Houston

-Student outreach got me where I am today, so I might as well return the favor!-

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke, "Profiles of The Future", 1961

Hey guys,

My name is Keithe, and it seems like I'm the only girl on the forum so far so that's fun. I go to Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts majoring in Aerospace Engineering, graduating in May.

I'll be at Boston University in the fall during the conference for grad school, and I'm excited to be involved with a group like this. I've done alot of outreach work as an undergraduate so hopefully Ill be able to bring some of my experiences to the table. I've never had the opportunity to set up a prize foundation but if it gives students more incentive to get into the schools to raise awareness about space, I'm all about it.

Sorry to post so late but hopefully we'll be able to crank some great ideas out before the conference!

NAME: Dr. Sarah Jane Pell
Australian Artist-researcher working on postdoctoral research at the intersection of human factors, advanced life support, extreme environment performance, behaviour & limits and aesthetics.

Hi team,
I have a little experience designing innovative outreach and creative fund raising and I will try to catch up with where you are all at here. I am looking foward to brainstorming with you all... SJ

Name: E.Venkataswamy
Email: evenkataswamy@yahoo.co.in
School: National Institute of Mental Health and Neuro Sciences(NIMHANS)
Course: Ph.D(Human Genetics)

I am very much interested in Astronomy. I do not have any experience with prize foundations so I want to get insights from you people to start one.