The South Dakota Space Grant Consortium (SDSGC) has provided
nine awards totaling approximately $176,000 in NASA funding to SD Mines and
five affiliate members of the Consortium.
The Space Grant
Consortium, headquartered at the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology,
is a statewide network of 20 member organizations from education, industry and
government. As the link between NASA and the citizens of South Dakota, the
Consortium’s mission is to instill the spirit of exploration and discovery in
students, educators and the general public, with a special focus on the fields
of science, technology, engineering and math that are essential for the
development of the nation’s workforce.
One grant of $17,100 was awarded directly to a Mines
student, Kari Pulli, a junior in mechanical engineering, as a scholarship for a
project titled “Student CO-OP for Aerospace and High-Altitude Technology
Development.” Pulli was selected by officials at Raven-Aerostar for an
eight-month student internship at its Sioux Falls facility. This is on top of a
previously announced SDSGC grant of $25,000 to SD Mines for a project titled: “Computational Astronomy for Teachers and Their
Students.”
In total, nine winning projects were competitively selected
from among 15 proposals submitted under the SDSGC’s FY2016 Project Innovati...