Former NASA person trying to small spacecraft projects to FIRST

[jeffnosanov]

Hello everyone. My name is Jeff. I was introduced to FIRST by two interns I had at JPL over the last few summers. For the past six months I have been trying to start a non-profit to make cubesat - small cubical spacecraft about 10cm on each side - projects available to high schools.

Today I met a person connected to Dean Kamen who suggested that I try to work with FIRST to make this happen. I asked my two former interns how best to reach the FIRST community and they suggested I post here.

To show you a bit more about me, here are the two most exciting things I was involved with at NASA:

2012 project:
http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/fi...PhI_SSEARS.pdf

2014 project:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4...czA&authuser=0

and here is the website for my non-profit initiative:

http://www.spacedonors.org

I'm posting this for a few reasons: 1. to gain a sense of the level of interest in potential small spacecraft projects, and 2. to excite the community in order to show FIRST management that this project is worth pursuing.

I'd love to get your thoughts on the idea.

Thank you,

Jeff