Aerospace Engineering and Rocketry comes to Glenbrook!

(This week's blog post by Mrs. Martha Reza, 4th grade teacher)

Mrs. Kuropas generously shared her daughter, Kathryn, with us on Friday. Kathryn went around to various classrooms to teach our students about Aerospace Engineering and rocketry. Kathryn is a sophomore at Western Michigan University majoring in Aerospace Engineering and was the founder and captain of the rocketry club at Lane Tech. Kathryn gave a great presentation about how she started her passion about rockets in middle school. She went through the process with them on how they are made and showed a cool video of her launching one of her bigger rockets. One of them went 900 feet high! She brought to the attention of the students that every school subject is important if you want to be an aerospace engineer. She also voiced her opinion that any girls that are interested in aerospace should follow their passion. Unfortunately there are not many women in this industry.

Students were very interested and had a great time getting their hands on some of her model rockets. She let them know that they could purchase model rocket kids at hobby stores with their parents permission.