Congratulations YPSE 2020 conference participants, we hope to see you all back next year!
We would like to thank everyone who attended and presented at the virtual 2020 AIAA Region 1 Young Professionals, Students, and Educators conference – each of you did an excellent job! Adapting the conference to a virtual environment was a completely new challenge for YPSE, and we have all of our attendees, speakers, presenters, and volunteers to thank for their flexibility and their willingness to help make the virtual conference a success.
So, thank you to all of the presenters who were willing to share and celebrate their work. Thank you to all of the attendees who engaged with our aerospace community. Thank you to all of the speakers who graciously took the time out of their busy lives to talk with us. Thank you to the volunteers who served as session chairs and as judges for the technical sessions. Everyone’s support helped ensure we had a successful virtual conference.
2020 Top Presentations
We would like to recognize and congratulate the following individuals and groups who earned top honors at the conference.
Middle School:
Top Presentation - Arnav Joseph - Ignite Space STEM Interest Among Minority and Underprivileged Students
High School:
Top Presentation - Ethan Ai, Jason Chen, Ron Nachum, and Gabriel Witkop - Development and Testing of a Cost-Effective 1.5 kN Liquid-Fueled Rocket Propulsion System
Undergraduate:
Honorable Mention - Rachel Cueva, Rachel Harvey, and Peter Mnev - Robotic Habitat Technologies for Minimizing Crew Maintenance Requirements
Top Presentation - Jung Eun Park - Fabrication and Testing of Martian Concrete Specimens Using Mars Regolith Simulant
Graduate:
Top Presentation - Laura Paquin - Experimental Investigation of Cooled Hypersonic Boundary Layers
Young Professional:
Honorable Mention - Kevin Liu - Case of the Strobing Streaks from the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR)
Top Presentation - Stephen Jenkins and Isaac Witte - Preliminary Dragonfly Electro-Optical Terrain Sensing Algorithm
Educator:
Top Presentation - Shawna Christenson - STEM Identity in Early Education
Top Presentation - Kevin Simmons - BLUE-SKY Learning at the Wolverine CubeSat Development Team
