Audience
Educators, Students
Grade Levels
Grades 5-8, Grades 9-12
Subject
Careers, Engineering Design, Technology
Type
Hands-on Activities, Videos
NASA Role Model: Dr. Andrew Lind
NASA Center: Langley Research Center
Topic: Research Aerospace Engineer
Original Air Date: April 7, 2021
Explore the career of Research Aerospace Engineer Andrew Lind and learn how he works with NASA’s Revolutionary Vertical Lift Technology (RVLT) project. Andrew is part of the acoustics flight test team at the Langley Research Center in Virginia. He is part of a special team whose focus is on learning more about how to make future aircraft vehicles quiet.
STEM Short Activity: Advanced Air Mobility: Air Taxi Design Challenge
Objective: Students will design an air taxi, refine their design, create a model of it, and share their model with the class.
Duration: 60 minutes
Materials Needed: Downloaded Student Guide, Pencil
Difficulty: Moderate
Next Generation Science Standards: MS-ETS1-1, MS-ETS1-, MS-ETS1-3, MS-ETS1-4
“NASA STEM Stars” is a webchat series. Each chat introduces a science, technology, engineering or math career, addresses a STEM topic and highlights a NASA mission. The chat includes a STEM activity that students can do at home. After the interviews, experts answer students’ questions.