Educational Outreach at Benchmark

Benchmark Space Systems is deeply committed to STEM educational outreach. Stimulating, supporting, and connecting with the next generation of aerospace professionals will strengthen and enrich a vibrant industry in the years to come. Our recent efforts touched multiple levels of young learners, and for many, provided their first exposure to the space industry.

 
At our headquarters in Burlington, VT, we welcomed a group of middle schoolers from nearby King Street Center, an invaluable community resource that serves a diverse population of ~120 students through various programs and activities. We toured them around our lab and production space and shared the importance of in-space mobility. 

We sent a team to the University of Vermont's Aiken Discover Engineering, a full day of STEM-related presentations and workshops for middle and high schoolers. We partnered with the students to construct water propulsion rockets to demonstrate scientific concepts like Newton’s Laws of Motion.

Our Director of Engineering, Bradley Hoover, contributed to a panel hosted by the Vermont Epscor (uvm)/NASA Space Grant Consortium for Vermont college students interested in pursuing careers in aerospace. He offered insights from his experience pursuing professional goals and moving through a challenging, competitive industry.
 

Our industry has ambitious goals for the future of space. We will need all the enthusiasm, thought diversity, and talent we can mobilize.