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By Alan Boyle, featuring Chelsey Ballarte, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Thirty-six women with a passion for aerospace have been selected to receive the first batch of Brooke Owens Fellowships – paid summer internships at a wide range of institutions across the country.
One of the women, Chelsey Ballarte, will be spending the summer with us at GeekWire.
Read MoreBy Eric Berger, Featuring the Brooke Owens Fellowship
Lori Garver had just boarded a plane last June when she heard that her young friend, D. Brooke Owens, had passed away. Owens, 35, had had terminal cancer for a long time, but the moment still stung Garver, the former deputy NASA administrator. She'd mentored Owens toward her dream of running an airport, and the two had become close.
Read MoreBy Alan Boyle, Featuring the Chelsey Ballarte, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow, and the 2017 Brooke Owens Fellows
Thirty-six women with a passion for aerospace have been selected to receive the first batch of Brooke Owens Fellowships – paid summer internships at a wide range of institutions across the country. One of the women, Chelsey Ballarte, will be spending the summer with us at GeekWire.
Read MorePRESS RELEASE: Today, the Brooke Owens Fellowship Program - a volunteer-led program awarding internships and senior mentorship to exceptional undergraduate women seeking careers in aviation or space exploration - announced 36 young leaders as recipients of 2017 Brooke Owens Fellowships.
Read MoreBy The University of Utah, Featuring Maggie Goertzen, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Brooke Owens Fellowship Program Helps Address Historical Underrepresentation of Women in Aviation and Space Exploration by Identifying and Training World-Class Talent
Read MoreBy University of Colorado Boulder, Featuring Christine Reilly, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellow
Some high school students seem to have their entire lives already mapped out. Christine Reilly was not one of them -- picking a college major was not easy. Now, as a CU Boulder Smead Aerospace junior and Norlin Scholar, she cannot imagine herself anywhere else.
Read MoreBy Purdue University, Featuring Amy Comeau and Pau Pineda Bosque, 2017 Brooke Owens Fellows
Two AAE undergrads will receive paid summer internships under the Brooke Owens Fellowship Program. Amy Comeau and Ana Paula Pineda Bosque were 2 of approximately 30 women selected from across the country. Both students were recommended for the program by AAE Visiting Assistant Professor Sarag Saikia.
Read MoreBy Diana Trujillo, Brooke Owens Fellowship Mentor
Exploring space is extraordinarily difficult. Like the other challenges of our time, if we want to solve it, we need to harness the intelligence and creativity of all of our best and brightest people, not just those of one race or gender.
Read MoreBy Debra Werner, Featuring the Brooke Owens Fellowship
Virgin Galactic, SpaceX, Blue Origin and Scaled Composite are a few of the companies inviting female college undergraduates planning to pursue aviation or space careers to apply for the new Brooke Owens Fellowship, which offers students paid summer internships plus travel stipends and assigned mentors.
Read MoreBy Tim Ferholz
While some women have beaten the odds and landed high-ranking positions in the sector—Lockheed Martin CEO Marillyn Hewson, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell, and Garver herself, for example—the demographic makeup of the field “has been a challenge for so many of us, and while it has changed, it hasn’t changed enough,” Garver says.
To that end, Garver and a group of space industry veterans have founded a fellowship in memory of Brooke Owens, a pilot and space policy expert who died this year of cancer at the age of 36. The fellowship will provide undergraduate women interested in aerospace with substantive summer jobs and professional mentors who can help guide their careers.
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