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Paris High School is excited to announce that three students from their Engineering CTE department have been selected as Texas High School Aerospace Scholars. Juniors Teddy Hubbard, Damian Aguilar and Devin Folmar were selected in October to participate in the 2020-2021 NASA program.
Students were selected based on recommendations from Representative Gary VanDeaver, counselor Tiffany Blassingame and engineering teacher Jodi Andoe. The students recently completed the four-month program that includes interactive lessons with NASA activities related to space exploration, earth science, technology, aeronautics and 3D design challenges.
In addition to receiving a science elective credit, students may be selected to participate in the onsite NASA summer experience.
When Ian Wells, sophomore mechanical engineering major, interviewed to join the WSU HYPER Lab in October 2019, he did not expect to be working on a project for NASA the next summer.
Wells had an interest in space since he was a kid, when he spoke with an astronaut on the International Space Station. He said he took a class in high school through the Idaho Science and Aerospace Scholars Program.
“I did well enough in this class, so I was invited to tour the NASA Ames Research Center,” he said. “While there, I realized that I could really pursue space science and engineering as a career.”
As a kid, Maverick Thigpen said he was always tinkering and trying to figure out how things worked. But it wasnât until the suggestion of his high school pre-calculus teacher that his interest in STEM was piqued.
Now the college student from Missouri City is combining his relatively newfound love of engineering and STEM â an academic discipline that stands for science, technology, engineering and mathematics â with his fight for social progress.
Thigpen, a 2017 graduate of Elkins High School, is a senior at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universityâs Prescott, Arizona campus who is finishing up a degree in aerospace engineering. He aspires to impact the world beyond Embry-Riddle and even beyond his objective of working at NASA.