Our objective through outreach is to express the team’s ideas on asteroid anchoring and our excitement about the space industry to the public. The team will be using several resources to make presentations. First is a PowerPoint filled with ideas and information about the experiment. After the flight, the PowerPoint will also include numerous pictures. At the presentation we plan on bringing the experiment pictures and samples of the experiment, (surface samples, drill bits, etc.) for the audience to see up close and touch. The video from the flight will also be played during the presentation to give the audience the full effect of what our experiment results looked like. Our main audience is students from the elementary school level to the college level. Hopefully the presentations will spark students’ interests and get them just as excited about space engineering as we are. The first outreach project we have is at the surrounding schools in Bryan/College Station. We will be giving presentations of our flight to elementary schools as well as to high schools.

The presentations to the elementary schools will be fairly basic and will focus more on the KC-135 program and the flight experience. This will hopefully grasp their attention and ignite their desire to get involved with this undergraduate program. The presentation will include numerous pictures of the flights and have each crewmember talk about their experience flying. The experiment itself will be there in certain cases so that the children will be able to see it up close. The aim of our outreach is for the audience to get excited about the flight and influence some of the children towards math and science related careers later on in life.

The next group the team will be talking to is the high schools. Our main target here is to influence high school students to select a major in an engineering related field and ignite their interest in to the space industry. The team’s presentation will tend to focus more on the experiment building and research. We will be going more in depth into why each decision was made and every thing leading up to the finished product. The video and pictures of the flight will also be shown at this presentation to help the students see how interesting and diverse engineering can be. The experiment will also be present to help the students visualize the functions of the experiment. We are also planning to branch out and talk to the high schools that each one of us came from back in their hometown.

The high school areas include Sugarland (near Houston), Garland (near Dallas), Highlands (near Houston), and other areas of Texas. Also since we have familiarity with the Garland area we will be making presentations at the elementary, middle, and the high schools in GISD. These presentations at the different high schools to our peers will most have the largest appeal since the students can relate to us. This is because each member of the team knows the students there personally so the students are more likely to pay attention and get interested because one of their friends got to go on the KC-135.