CLUB FOR THE FUTURE


Associated tags: Blue Origin, Club, Future, STEM, Life, Tenacity, Engineering, Disability, Student, American Institute, AIAA

AIAA Announces $10,000 Scholarship in Partnership with Blue Origin’s Club for the Future

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Thursday, November 16, 2023

The scholarship is known as “AIAA and Club for the Future’s Resilient Student Scholarship.”

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  • The scholarship is known as “AIAA and Club for the Future’s Resilient Student Scholarship.”
    Students can apply here .
  • The scholarship will be offered to high school seniors who are AIAA members; high school membership in AIAA is free.
  • This scholarship follows other support for aerospace young talent development provided to the AIAA Foundation by Blue Origin’s Club for the Future, including a $1 million grant in 2021 for educational programs.
  • Basil Hassan, chair, AIAA Foundation, recognizes that the scholarship partnership with Blue Origin’s Club for the Future offers an exciting pathway to develop new engineering talent for the aerospace industry.

Estes and Club for the Future partner to launch New Shepard model rocket

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Wednesday, August 25, 2021

Estes and Club for the Future will launch a series of Blue Origin models and educational content to inspire the next generation of space leaders and explorers.

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  • Estes and Club for the Future will launch a series of Blue Origin models and educational content to inspire the next generation of space leaders and explorers.
  • We are proud to announce the first of this series, the Estes New Shepard model rocket will launch in November.
  • Manufactured by Estes Industries, the model has been reduced to 1/66thscale of Blue Origin's New Shepard launch vehicle to ignite the imagination of families nationwide.
  • "The Estes and Club for the Future collaboration is the next exciting step in Estes's long legacy of supporting STEM education, and the Estes New Shepard is the perfect vehicle to inspire future generations," said Mallory Langford, President, Estes Industries.

Space For Humanity Selected to Receive $1 million from Blue Origin's Club for the Future

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Wednesday, July 14, 2021

"Our recent auction for the first seat on New Shepard resulted in a donation of $28 million to our non-profit foundation, Club for the Future," said Bob Smith, Blue Origin CEO.

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  • "Our recent auction for the first seat on New Shepard resulted in a donation of $28 million to our non-profit foundation, Club for the Future," said Bob Smith, Blue Origin CEO.
  • "We believe that space is the future and that it's imperative that more people from diverse backgrounds get the opportunity to experience the transformational shift that visiting space offers," said Rachel Lyons, Executive Director of Space for Humanity.
  • Founded by Blue Origin in 2019, Club for the Future is a nonprofit foundation whose mission is to inspire future generations to pursue careers in STEM and to help invent the future of life in space.
  • The Club and its collaborators are doing this through Postcards to Space, space-focused curriculum, and access to space on Blue Origin's rockets.

‘Dream Big Florida’ Program to Send Student Postcards to Space and Back on Blue Origin’s Reusable Rockets

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Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Club for the Future and STEM2 Hub announced today the Dream Big Florida postcard program to provide more than one million Florida students direct access to space through Blue Origins reusable rockets.

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  • Club for the Future and STEM2 Hub announced today the Dream Big Florida postcard program to provide more than one million Florida students direct access to space through Blue Origins reusable rockets.
  • The program gives K-12 students access to space by asking them to create postcards with their dreams of the future and vision for life in space answering the question, Why do you think Earth needs space?
  • Blue Origin will then fly the postcards to space and back on upcoming New Shepard rocket launches, and mail them back to students with a Flown to Space postmark.
  • Through this partnership, Florida schools can become the incubators for innovation in the space economy, said Daniel Davis, Space Florida Board Member and President & CEO of the Jax Chamber.