Let’s recognise the great work the Organising Team of SpaceGen United Congress have done over the past 3 months, and especially during the event itself, 18th - 26th July, and congratulate them for their nomination as Members of the Month of July 2020!
Teams of volunteers have been focussed on enabling virtual workshops and webinars engaging thousands of people in activities, keeping the network United.
NCAC and SA regions worked for almost a month in organizing six sessions of webinars with distinguished Latin personalities in their fields.
Mehak is the SPT co-coordinator, and has been with the SPT for the last year. Outside of SGAC, she splits her time as a Research Associate between the MIT Media Lab and Harvard Business School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
José Godinho Uzcategui (Venezuela) was part of the Organising team for both, the 4th E-SGW in London, UK, and Space Generation Congress 2019, held in Washington, DC.
The exception of February 2020 is that SGAC is proud to present two nominated Members of the Month:
Daniel Wischert is a national trainee working in the Concurrent Design Facility (CDF) of the European Space Agency (ESA) at ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. As a space systems engineer, he supports the feasibility assessment and conceptual design of future space missions and new spacecraft concepts for all ESA programmes.
SGAC is pleased to announce Santiago Henn, Miguel Heredia, and Jimmy Gora as the winners of the South-America Space Leaders Award. The competition enables the outstanding SGAC members to attend the South American Space Generation Workshop (SA-SGW) will be held on 9-10th of November, 2018 in partnership with the XIII International Congress of Electronics, Control and Telecommunications in Bogotá. The SA-SGW 2018 is a two-day regional event for students and young professionals (aged 18-35 years) to discuss pertinent issues that the space industry in the South-America space region is facing.
SGAC is delighted and honoured to be awarded the IAF Excellence in 3G Diversity Award for 2018. The award is intended to recognize IAF member organisations (industry, government, academia) worldwide for outstanding contributions to the fostering of “3G” (Geography, Generation, Gender) Diversity within the space sector. It is an annual award presented at the IAC, but is given only when nominations of exceptional merit are received.
Through the partnership between SGAC and the CNES, this scholarship is available for students studying in France, or for students of French nationality regardless of the country where they study, to attend the 69th International Astronautical Congress (01 – 05 October 2018) in Bremen, Germany.
