PRESS RELEASE: The Brooke Owens Fellowship is announcing a change to its leadership team, thanking Caroline Juang for her incredible service and welcoming alumni Maddie Kothe.
Read MoreThe Brooke Owens Fellowship is now accepting job applications for the role of Fellowship Administrator! As our only paid employee, our new Fellowship Administrator will play a major role in the continuing operations and growth of our award-winning programs, which have already helped bring nearly four hundred new women, non gender confirming, and non-binary professionals from a wide variety of disciplines and job types into the aerospace industry.
Read MoreIn 2022, The Aurelia Institute offered three spots to students from the Brooke Owens Fellowship, Patti Grace Smith Fellowship, and the Matthew Isakowitz Fellowship to fly weightless with Zero-G - for free. Allysa Kazhe (BOF ‘21), Mya Guillaume (BOF ‘22, PGSF ‘21), and Amy Huynh (MIFP ‘20, BOF ‘19) were selected through a random drawing to fly with the Aurelia Institute on board a Zero G flight. They shared with us some thoughts on their weightless experience.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: The Brooke Owens Fellowship—a nationally-acclaimed nonprofit program recognizing exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities with space and aviation internships, senior mentorship, and a lifelong professional network—announces its Class of 2023 Brooke Owens Fellows.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: The Brooke Owens Fellowship is announcing a change to its leadership team, thanking Diana Trujillo for her extraordinary service and welcoming back Co-Founder Lori Garver.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: Executive Teams from the Brooke Owens Fellowship and Patti Grace Smith Fellowship announced today that Ginny Randall will join their teams as Operation Director, the first full-time paid position for both programs.
Read MoreWe are now accepting applications for the Operations Director who will help us run and grow the Brooke Owens Fellowship and the Patti Grace Smith Fellowship programs. We are thrilled to find a highly intelligent, highly motivated new leader, who will work closely with our executive teams both to run our current Fellowships and to help us develop and execute plans for new things.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: 51 undergraduate students earn their place at leading aerospace organizations in the Brooke Owens Fellowship Class of 2022—the Fellowship’s newest, most diverse class of Brooke Owens Fellows.
Read More“Buy One, Give One” has come to commercial human spaceflight, and we are one of the first recipients! A generous donation from Dylan Taylor, who flew to space on December 11, 2021, will allow us to hire our first full-time employee, who will help lead the Brooke Owens and Patti Grace Smith Fellowships into the future!
Read MoreWe are using a new system, Reviewr, to submit your application! For a tutorial on how to use this portal, check out this Brookie Guide to the Reviewr Application Portal.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: A $1 million dollar donation from Blue Origin’s Club for the Future will allow the Brooke Owens Fellowship and Patti Grace Smith Fellowship programs to continue working to make the aerospace community more just, equitable, diverse, and inclusive.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: Today the Fellowship is announcing changes to its executive leadership team. After helping develop and lead a program that has now helped nearly 200 young leaders begin their careers in aerospace, Co-Founder Cassie Lee will step back from her day-to-day responsibilities as a member of the five-person Executive Leadership team. To help continue the program’s rapid and impressive development, the Brooke Owens Fellowship has selected Emily Calandrelli as the newest member of its Executive team.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: 44 Undergraduate students earn their place at leading aerospace organizations, as the Fellowship turns five years old.
Read MoreYou might be reading this guide because you are a Brooke Owens Finalist this year or you’re in the process of interviewing for internships and full-time jobs. In this guide, you will find information about interview etiquette and advice for three different types of interviews: general, technical, and case study.
Read MoreFor our Class of 2021, we are thrilled to have 35 of the coolest, most inspiring, and most exciting aerospace institutions in the world signed up to employ a Brookie or two. On the Brooke Owens Fellowship application, we ask you to list out three of our thirty-five host institutions that are particularly appealing to you. For students who are new to the aerospace industry, and particularly for those who may not have family or school connections who work in the industry, it can be quite difficult to make those choices. Well, read on, new friend: we’ve got tips for you!
Read MoreHow can we make sure that one person stands out and is quickly and clearly seen and remembered among all of the hundreds or even thousands of other applications? For us, the three original works each applicant creates are the answer. Follow this guide to find out how you can create your essays that showcase your best self for the Brooke Owens Fellowship application.
Read MoreLet’s get you started on how to help your awesome person #BecomeABrookie. In this guide, you will find information about the fellowship, the types of information we’re hoping to learn about the awesome applicant you know, some suggestions and guidelines for the content and structure of the letter, how to submit the letter, and a couple additional resources.
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