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Fredericksburg High School Suborbital Aeroscience Studies Raising The Bar of Technology Education A Proven Program F r e d e r I c k s b u r g E d u c a t i o n I n i t i a t i v e 1 Americas Burning Need Our engineering

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Fredericksburg High School Suborbital Aeroscience Studies

Raising The Bar of Technology Education – A Proven Program

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Our engineering workforce is retiring
Engineering graduates are declining
40% Of engineering students are non-residents
Secondary school budget cuts reduce creative

programs that work

There Are Not Enough Engineers To Take Us To Mars!

America’s Burning Need

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Two Year Program For HS Juniors and Seniors
Physics Based Approach

– Mechanics – Electrical – Fluids – Thermal

Total Immersion in Problem-Based-Learning

Approach – Instructor Does NO Work – Students Do Everything – Students Teach Themselves, Driven By Desire To Launch … To Achieve! – Failure is Absolutely An Option What We Do

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In One Year, Students – BY THEMSELVES –

Design, Build, Test, and Launch a 25 ft. Aluminum/Titanium Hybrid-Fueled Sounding Rocket to a Height of 100,00+ft.

What We Do

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First High School Ever To Build a Rocket That Broke The Sound

Barrier

First and Only High School To Successfully Launch at a Federal

Missile Range

Only High School To Sign a Space Act Agreement with NASA
Developing 500-Lb Research Vehicles To Lift 35-lb. Packages to

100,000 ft

How Well We Do It

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And We Are Launching Again in 2004:

– Rocket: – Testing Fuel Grain Developed at Stanford University - At Their Request – Lifting Payload From Purdue University - At Their Request – With Funding From NASA and WSMR

FHS SAS Is Already Doing What America Needs

How Well We Do It

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How Well We Do It

Government Partnerships

– NASA (Marshall, Johnson, Stennis, Wallops) – Office of Naval Research – White Sands Missile Range – Air Force Research Lab

Industry Partnerships

– ATK Thiokol – Lockheed Martin – Boeing/Rocketdyne – United Space Alliance – Over Thirty More Significant Opportunities for Scholarships and Internships

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How Well We Do It

Fredericksburg High School

800 850 900 950 1000 1050 89-90 90-91 91-92 92-93 93-94 94-95 95-96 96-97 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 Year SAT scores

Fredericksburg High School Average SAT Scores

SAS Inception

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Aligned In Vertical Partnership

– Midland Community College – Texas Tech University – 2+2+2 Program – Courses Being Remotely Delivered NOW – Too Many Universities Interested To Detail/Can’t Keep Up With Requests

Raising $3+ Million To Build, Equip and Staff

Technical Training Center – Joint Education and Business Consortium; 501(c)3 Status SAS’s National Destiny

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Goal is To Deliver Curriculum to Other HS Teachers

Through Train The Trainer Model – Maximizes Program’s Reach – Guarantees Quality Replication and Dissemination – Already Besieged With Summer Requests SAS’s National Destiny We Are Already Incapable of Meeting Demand From Teachers in Texas Alone