EMU2ORBIT - Networking cracked FIRST students to industry

> Investment NSW supported student accelerator program connecting disadvantaged Aussie high schoolers directly to the local and international space industry.
> Technical + Soft skills @ 17 years old = the world is your oyster.
> Directed by me with project officers Josephina Doyle, Efrain Tanama and support from everyone else in my life (it was a crazy period)

Empowering the next generation: paving a sustainable space future
> Josephina and Sachi (right) explaining to Tim Parsons (left) their table's student workshop on a major sustainability issue. In a room of space professionals, their understanding of NESA guidelines meant they had the only pitch ready for real NSW syllabus requirements.

> Dinner with cool people

MIT Alumni Meet:
> Asking Larry James what he thinks Australia can do to build a generation of super engineers, given we don't have America's base of crazy NASA, JPL, SpaceX parents to fall back on.

Students and Mentor from NZ that I organised to have flown out to IAC when I found NZ space companies weren't supporting local FIRST Robotics teams. This has built closer ties with University of Auckland but there is ongoing work to bring on industry sponsors.