Ahmed Abdi is the founder & programme manager of Africa Space Workshops and currently the SGAC Africa Regional Partnerships Manager. As a former refugee who fled a civil war from Somalia, Ahmed Abdi is very passionate about democratizing the access to space and helping create and establish African space startups by advocating space entrepreneurship, and organising space workshops in the [...]
Back in 2002, I joined a trip to Houston, to attend the World Space Congress (WSC) and visit some tech sites including NASA JSC. During this trip I heard that an organization called Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) was celebrating its first Space Generation Summit in conjunction with the WSC. The name stuck in my mind. I was still very [...]
My journey in the SGAC began in 2011 through a colleague that met with the SGAC director at the International Astronautical Congress. He did not know much about the organization at the time, but after a few minutes talking with the members, he came to realize that Brazil had no representation. Himself, he was over the age limit, but once [...]
My name is Lauren Napier and I have been a member of the Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) since 2013. Before I became active with SGAC I didn't really know much about how to get involved in the space sector aside from working for a space agency or a space company. Having a background in communications and international relations I [...]
In April 2018 I was presented with one of the first SGAC Pioneer Awards to recognize my efforts and contributions to the organization. As I was handed the pioneer pin—a golden wreath encircling the SGAC logo—I reflected on the fact that it had only taken me four years to get here. I say that not as a dismissal on the [...]
For the longest time, doing anything space related seemed impossible. My periapsis came and went in 2008 when I graduated from Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical and Space from the University of Queensland in Australia. Back then, I had successfully organised the Queensland Youth Aerospace Forum (the predecessor of the Australian Youth Aerospace Forum) and just came back with my [...]
