Military/Veteran Spotlight
Veterans Helping Veterans
In
October 2012, student veterans from the School of Mines assisted a
fellow veteran in the Rapid City community by felling, removing, and
replacing twenty pine trees on his property that were damaged in a wildfire
in the spring.
Aaron Baker wins AFCEA General Emmet Paige Scholarship
Aaron Baker (center)
(Navy | Chemical Engineering)
wins AFCEA General Emmett Paige Scholarship
Ryan Brown wins two scholarships
Ryan Brown (center)
(Army | Electrical/Computer Engineering)
wins R. B. Hughes Computer Engineering
and Electrical Engineering Memorial Scholarship
Students Soar with NASA Placements
RAPID CITY, S.D. (July 26, 2012) – Ten South Dakota School of Mines & Technology students have spent recent months immersed in NASA and aerospace industry internships.
The students were placed either in 15-week spring or 10-week summer internships, with about $80,000 in stipends awarded either by the South Dakota Space Grant Consortium (SDSGC), headquartered at the School of Mines, or directly from NASA.
“Of the 60 students who were supported by the Space Grant Consortium this past year with $208,000 in fellowship/scholarship funding, we are very pleased with the fact that 11 of them have conducted internships at NASA Centers and aerospace industries,” said Tom Durkin, SDSGC deputy director. “These types of hands-on, high-tech experiences give our students an excellent taste of what it is like to work at NASA and for NASA contractors after they graduate. These internships also play an essential role in developing our nation’s workforce in the important fields of science, technology, engineering and math.”
School of Mines military veteran students placed were:
- Ryan Brown (Army), junior from Rapid City, computer engineering, NASA Johnson Space Center, spring
- Trisha Michael (Air Force), junior from Rapid City, interdisciplinary sciences (ATM track), summer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center