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Two Johns Hopkins undergrads among recipients of aerospace fellowship

By Sukanya Charuchandra, Featuring Sophia Porter and Courtney Schmitt, 2018 Brooke Owens Fellows

From the first moment Johns Hopkins University undergrads Sophia Porter and Courtney Schmitt learned about outer space, they were captivated. Driven by questions about what lay beyond, they have chosen academic trajectories that will skyrocket them into the aerospace industry.

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Aerospace undergrad Madison Harrington set to launch into Brooke Owens Fellowship

By John Burnett-Larkins, Featuring Madison Harrington, 2018 Brooke Owens Fellow

There’s not a moment of hesitation when you ask sophomore Madison Harrington if she has a particular career interest in aerospace engineering. “Oh, absolutely! I want to be an astronaut!” And that, she says, is why she applied for – and is delighted to have been accepted for– the selective Brooke Owens Fellowship, “because they are very, very supportive.”

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Ohio State students, graduates receive national honors

By the Ohio State University, Featuring Anna Voelker and Kayla Watson, 2018 Brooke Owens Fellows

The Brooke Owens Fellowship Program, founded in 2016, awards internships and senior mentorship to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration. As 2018 fellows, Kayla Watson and Anna Voelker completed a rigorous and highly competitive application and multi-phase interview process. Fellows are placed into a paid summer internship at one of the nation’s leading aviation or space companies.

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Florida Poly Student Makes Strides For Women In Space Exploration

By Andrea Martin, Featuring Payton Barnwell, 2018 Brooke Owens Fellow

As a child, Payton Barnwell was fascinated by race cars, but her passion for science came to her in high school with the support of her high school physics teacher. Now, the Florida Polytechnic University mechanical engineering junior has been selected for one of the most prestigious aviation and space programs in the country, one specifically designed for women.

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Tampa's Payton Barnwell takes giant step to her fulfilling her dream of becoming an astronaut

By Sean Daly, Featuring Payton Barnwell, 2018 Brooke Owens Fellow

Payton Barnwell has serious travel plans. “Definitely the moon first,” says Barnwell. “Can you imagine the feeling when you come back to Earth, seeing this little blue ball and you’re from that?” Science fiction for this 20-year-old Hillsborough High graduate? Not for this all-world talent. Barnwell, a junior at Florida Polytechnic University in Lakeland, is amassing an interstellar aerospace resume.

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Skylar Eiskowitz ME'19 Received Brooke Owens Fellowship

By The Cooper Union, Featuring Skylar Eiskowitz, 2018 Brooke Owens Fellow

Junior mechanical engineering student Skylar Eiskowitz is one of 41 students nationwide selected for the 2018 Brooke Owens Fellowship Program. “The rigor balanced with the inspirational friends and professors that we collaborate with on a daily basis at The Cooper Union has already taught me so much, and I am excited to learn more from other fellows, mentors, and co-workers at Avascent.”

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KU Students Seek to Launch Mini-Satellite Through NASA Program

By the University of Kansas, Featuring Mady Sargent, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow

Sargent, a junior in aerospace engineering at the University of Kansas, is leading an effort to put a tiny satellite from Kansas into space — part of NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) that launches small payloads beyond Earth’s atmosphere. She’s working with Marco Villa, a KU graduate who works in the satellite industry, to bring the project to fruition.

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See how these students got ahead with on-site experience

By Amanda Miller, Featuring Golda Nguyen, Dawn Andrews, and Piper Sigrest, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellows

From Georgia Tech to MIT, aerospace students are anxious to gain experience in the industry while they’re still in college. “There definitely is a sense of urgency,” says Dawn Andrews, 21, an aerospace engineering major at Georgia Tech who interned at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, last summer and continues with the company part time. “I feel almost behind by only having one internship experience.”

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