1. “Bringing Space to the community and the classroom”
This step-by-step guide can be purchased at
https://www.createspace.com/5508539
and Amazon.com
Classroom Laboratory at the
Edge of Space: Introducing
the Mini-Cube Program
About the author:
Gregory N. Cecil, M.A.S. is the only Florida
State Certified Educator and Nationally
Certified Aerospace Technician in the
nation. Gregory holds a Masters in
Aeronautical Science: Space Operations
Management from Embry-Riddle
Aeronautical University and previously
worked in the Space Shuttle Program at
Kennedy Space Center. After the end of
the Space Shuttle Program, Gregory
became a Florida Certified Educator and
taught science in both public and private
schools. Building off of his experience and
education in human spaceflight, Gregory is
able to draw connections between the
aerospace industry and academia, and has
successfully administered multiple Mini-
Cube Programs with his middle school
students. Gregory is currently the CEO of
AeroSTEM Consulting, LLC.
Gregory's LinkedIn Profile can be found at
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/gregory-
cecil-m-a-s/25/97a/930
www.AeroSTEM.net
AeroSTEM@gmail.com
AeroSTEM Consulting, LLC
A book written for secondary public and private school STEM
instructors, home schooling, and undergraduate STEM courses of
study explaining how to set up their own student focused "space
program" utilizing the Mini-Cube Program. With this Informal STEM
Project Based Learning Activity, students can have the unique,
affordable, and challenging opportunity to send experiments via high
altitude balloon to an altitude of 100,000 feet (20 miles or 32 km),
commonly known as the "edge of space."
Utilizing the scientific method, team work, research, and
communicating in writing the results and applications for peer
review, students will participate in the full cycle of an actual
experiment from the original question to the published results and
conduct true science at the edge of space.