KAITLIN ENGELBERT

• Brooke Owens Fellow, Class of 2017

• University of Colorado, Boulder, B.S. Astronomy & Minor in Communications and Education, ‘19

• Host Institution: Museum of Flight

• Mentor: Doug King

Kaitlin Engelbert is a Marketing & Communications Specialist at Ball Aerospace, where she works with their Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) outreach program to help communicate about Ball Aerospace’s programs, capabilities and people to the general public. In this role she helps develop meaningful STEM materials to help engage students from K-12 to college levels. She also serves as a liaison to multiple strategic support units within Ball to develop and execute internal and external communications in support of these units.

As a Brooke Owens Fellow, Kaitlin developed and implemented a new STEM program within the Museum of Flight's education department, taught 23 middle school girls how to code SPHERE satellites on the International Space Station, while being the communication liaison between NASA centers, University partners, and program participants.

She is passionate about science communication and education and hopes to help make a difference in the mindsets of the public to supporting and wanting to be involved in aerospace/astrophysical industries.

She earned a bachelor’s in Astronomy with minors in Communication and Education from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2019.