UA Student Rocket-Design Team Places Fourth in Annual NASA Competition
By Kaitee Horstmann, Copy Editor
September 21, 2020
The Akronauts, the student rocket-design team at The University of Akron, received fourth place overall in the 2020 NASA Student Launch Competition out of 54 total teams who participated this year. According to a UA press release, the Akronauts spent eight months building their rocket from start to ...
NASA Selects UA Engineers to Test Technology for Astronauts
By Megan Parker, Copy Editor
April 19, 2019
For the second year in a row, NASA has invited a team of students from the College of Engineering and Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences to travel to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, from April 15 to 19. The University of Akron’s “Virtual Environments for Space Travel” (VEST...
UA Student Rocket Design Team Heading to NASA Competition
By Megan Parker, Copy Editor
April 1, 2019
The University of Akron’s student rocket-design team, the Akronauts, will be competing in NASA’s 2019 Student Launch Competition in Huntsville, Alabama from April 4-6. Founded in 2014, the Akronauts are comprised of students from the College of Engineering. Through hands-on experience, the students ...
Bridging STEM fields
By Kaitlin Erdman
April 6, 2016
Over the weekend, The National Inventor’s Hall of Fame STEM Middle School hosted its sixth BEST (Bridging Engineering, Science, and Technology) Medicine Engineering Fair. This event, orchestrated by the Biomedical Engineering Department of The University of Akron, is designed to promote interest...
Inspiring young girls into STEM fields
By Kaitlin Erdman
March 7, 2016
It is known that women are underrepresented in STEM fields, but an event held every year at The University of Akron is working to change that. Last Saturday, UA held the 2016 Kid’s Career Day in the Student Union. This event, sponsored by Lockheed Martin and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, was a half...
NASA selects UA students’ spacesuit testing proposal
By Dylan Reynolds
February 29, 2016
A University of Akron student-led team recently proposed a uniform testing method for spacesuits, which NASA selected as one of the nation’s three finest. The proposal was created in response to NASA’s Textile Test Methods Challenge, a call for researchers to create a standard procedure that ...
