Inspiring Today's Young Space Professionals

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Inspiring Today's Young Space Professionals

• Kamara Brown
• President, NASA Academy Alumni Association (NAAA)

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Goal

• To share concepts on how to motivate and retain
  young space enthusiasts from a student
  perspective.

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Ideas to Inspire

• Go Where They Mingle
• Be Proactive
• Alternative PR
• Other Methods

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Go Where They Mingle

• Get to know organizations/events like
• NAAA Space Generations Foundation
• NSBE-Space Yuris Night
• ISU Alumni SEDS
• X-Prize Cup ISDC
• Leading organizations/events with many current
  and future young space professionals
• Manage Annual Events
• Host Major National Regional Conferences
• Conduct Teambuilding RD Technology Projects
• Establish a presence

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Be Proactive

• Move Like Your Hairs On Fire
• Host Network Events among SG-sponsored fellow and
  Intern alumni often
• Invite dynamic space leaders to talk with future
  ones
• Utilize tele /video conferences to create virtual
  forums

• Offer real scholarships (4-year) competitive
  internships similar to commercial industry
• Bring back full-time opportunities for space
  leaders in exchange for years of service
• Rotational Training Programs for New Hires

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Alternative Cost-Effective PR

• Blogs
• Podcasts
• YouTube
• MySpace
• Professional Student Organizations Magazine /
  Websites
• NAAA, SEDS, X-Prize,
• Listservs
• Web banners

• Get media involved in your events
• Local
• NPR
• Build partnerships with cable networks and space
  products
• Discovery Channel
• SciFi Channel
• Disney -the little explorers
• XM Radio

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Other Methods

• Get former fellowship internship participants
  involved
• Reveal the politics policies of your group
• Let them really see how your agency function
• Take a lesson from Hollywood
• Find out what young space professionals are
  passionate about
• Space tourism Space public policy
• Renewable energy
• Green initiatives for Space Science

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Final Highlights

• Establish real collaborations
• Advertise by utilize Todays IT Technologies
• Follow-up with past fellowship participants
• Share democratic practices grant young space
  leaders more secure participation of
• Political Business
• Research
• Foster environments to inspire
• highly creative space professionals

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Resources

• NAAA www.nasa-academy.org
• NSBE Space www.nsbe-hsc.org/space/projects.htm
• Yuris Night www.yurisnight.net
• X-Prize Cup www.xprize.org/xprizecup
• ISDC Space Leadership Conference
  http//isdc.nss.org/2007
• SEDS http//www.seds.org
• SpaceAlumni www.spacealumni.com
• Space Generations Foundation
• www.spacegeneration.org/usa