2021 GA Participants in GASSSS Program
These participants have submitted a final GASSSS application.
If your name is not on this list and you have participated in the GASSSS program, please contact Larry Woolf at Lawrence.Woolf@ga-asi.com
| GA GASSSS Participant | Company | School | Materials Purchased | Activity |
| Brian Ware | GA-ASI | Hands-On Technology Foundation, San Diego CA | Resources such as tablets, dash robots, makey-makey, circuit boards, and other program supplies. | I participated in the General Atomics Career Day where GABE members discussed their background and careers at General Atomics. I participated as a judge during the Business Shark Tank competition for the camp students. The Shark Tank competition ideas were based on GA products and careers. I participated as a volunteer for the planning, programming, and execution of the program between GA, GABE, and HOTE through meetings and emails. |
| Joyvonne Bragg | GA-ASI | Hands-On Technology Foundation, San Diego CA | Special *STEM-KIT* adventure camp in which all attendees will be loaned supplies (E.g. robots!) so that they can successfully participate and have both on- & off-screen fun in the camp! | I participated in the General Atomics Career Day where GABE members discussed their background and careers at General Atomics. I participated as a judge during the Business Shark Tank competition for the camp students. The Shark Tank competition ideas were based on GA products and careers. |
| Gregory Thomas | GA-ASI | Hands-On Technology Foundation, San Diego CA | Resources such as tablets, dash robots, makey-makey, circuit boards, and other program supplies. | I participated in the General Atomics Career Day where GABE members discussed their background and careers at General Atomics. |
| Ravinder Chatha | GA-ASI | Hands-On Technology Foundation, San Diego CA | Special *STEM-KIT* adventure camp in which all attendees will be loaned supplies (E.g. robots!) so that they can successfully participate and have both on- & off-screen fun in the camp! | I participated in the General Atomics Career Day where GABE members discussed their background and careers at General Atomics. I participated as a judge during the Business Shark Tank competition for the camp students. The Shark Tank competition ideas were based on GA products and careers. |
| Jennifer Gendron | GA-ASI | Hands-On Technology Foundation, San Diego CA | Resources such as tablets, dash robots, makey-makey, circuit boards, and other program supplies. | I participated in the General Atomics Career Day where GABE members discussed their background and careers at General Atomics. I participated as a judge during the Business Shark Tank competition for the camp students. The Shark Tank competition ideas were based on GA products and careers. I participated as a volunteer for the planning, programming, and execution of the program between GA, GABE, and HOTE through meetings and emails. |
| Sonya Stephens | GA-ASI | Hands-On Technology Foundation, San Diego CA | Resources such as tablets, dash robots, makey-makey, circuit boards, and other program supplies. | I participated in the General Atomics Career Day where GABE members discussed their background and careers at General Atomics. |
| Michael Bowman | GA-ASI | Hands-On Technology Foundation, San Diego CA | Special *STEM-KIT* adventure camp in which all attendees will be loaned supplies (E.g. robots!) so that they can successfully participate and have both on- & off-screen fun in the camp! | I participated in the General Atomics Career Day where GABE members discussed their background and careers at General Atomics. I participated as a judge during the Business Shark Tank competition for the camp students. The Shark Tank competition ideas were based on GA products and careers. |
| Damon Jenkins | GA-ASI | Hands-On Technology Foundation, San Diego CA | Resources such as tablets, dash robots, makey-makey, circuit boards, and other program supplies. | I participated in the General Atomics Career Day where GABE members discussed their background and careers at General Atomics. I participated as a judge during the Business Shark Tank competition for the camp students. The Shark Tank competition ideas were based on GA products and careers. I participated as a volunteer for the planning, programming, and execution of the program between GA, GABE, and HOTE through meetings and emails. |
| Kimberly Bankston | GA | Hands-On Technology Foundation, San Diego CA | Special *STEM-KIT* adventure camp in which all attendees will be loaned supplies (E.g. robots!) so that they can successfully participate and have both on- & off-screen fun in the camp! | I participated in the General Atomics Career Day where GABE members discussed their background and careers at General Atomics. I participated as a judge during the Business Shark Tank competition for the camp students. The Shark Tank competition ideas were based on GA products and careers. |
| Jake Crawford | GA-ASI | Hands-On Technology Foundation, San Diego CA | Special *STEM-KIT* adventure camp in which all attendees will be loaned supplies (E.g. robots!) so that they can successfully participate and have both on- & off-screen fun in the camp! | I participated in the General Atomics Career Day where GABE members discussed their background and careers at General Atomics. I participated as a judge during the Business Shark Tank competition for the camp students. The Shark Tank competition ideas were based on GA products and careers. I participated as a volunteer for the planning, programming, and execution of the program between GA, GABE, and HOTE through meetings and emails. |
| Philip Hu | GA-ASI | Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair (GSDSEF), San Diego CA | None | Time spent on 3/15/2021, Monday for judging participants' presentations. Reviewed and judged middle school science projects. |
| Alicia Russin | GA-ASI | Greater San Diego Science & Engineering Fair, San Diego CA | None | Participating as a Judge for the Greater San Diego Science and Engineering Fair. Interact with students as a judge to evaluate presented material. Rank student projects based on quality of work. Employee reviewed pre-fair material in order to prepare for fair. Employee acted as a judge for the Computer Science Senior Division during the fair to evaluate the quality of each student's work. |
| William Logan | GA-ASI | Manzanita Community School, Oakland CA | "1. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/space-satellite-30365 -- 1 for each student 2. https://www.lego.com/en-us/product/international-space-station-21321 -- 1 for the classroom" | Presented : Introduction to Earth, Gravity, Rockets, Space, International Space Station, Satellites, Astronauts and Engineers as well as NASA worksheet for the students |
| Barton McDowell | GA-ASI | FRC Team NOMAD Inc., Escondido CA | Purchase of miscellaneous robotics parts for FRC Team NOMAD Inc. competing in FIRST Robotics competitions. (Team #6995; frc6995.org) | I serve as a Design and Mechanical Engineering Mentor for the FRC 6995 NOMAD team. I am mentoring the team in various aspects of mechanical design and manufacturing. I am also the lead mentor for our robots CAD team. I will also support the team at competition. |
| Kimberly Engle | Cryotech | Fairfield Community School District, Fairfield IA | Ten Digital Instant Read Kitchen Thermometers | Demonstration of melting, freeze point depression, and provided a presentation. |
| Donna Mirabella | GA-ASI | Ellen Browning Scripps Elementary, San Diego CA | Supplies for multiple science experiments for 4th grade science. | Participated in Energy Transfer zoom science lesson. Demonstrated experiment/assisted with break-out rooms/answered questions/spoke about careers in engineering. |
| William Logan | GA-ASI | FRC Team NOMAD Inc., Escondido CA | 1. 20x lego airplanes 2. 1x Paper Airplane book 3. 1x History of Aviation book |
Introduction to Gravity, Airplanes, Spacecraft, Engineers presentation to students. |
| Candace Gray | GA | National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) | None | I participated in the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Summer Engineering Experience for Kids (SEEK) 2021 Program as a virtual facilitator/mentor. I was responsible for creating lesson plans and mentoring students as they prepared to showcase their weekly projects. I taught on the subjects of aerospace, mechanical, and computer engineering. SEEK is a three-week summer program that offers a fun and engaging educational experience for students in grades 3–5. The mission of SEEK is to increase elementary school students’ aptitude in math and science and their interest in pursuing STEM career fields, by having them engage in interactive, team-based engineering projects. |
| Kathreen Thome | GA | AAUW TechTrek, CA | Supplies for the spectroscope and filming: Grating roll for spectroscope kits now and future; Camera SD card after ours died; Two paper trimmers for cutting distracting films to size; Black card stock. | Presented a workshop entitled “Lights, Waves, Plasma, Oh My!” and a virtual pre-recorded tour of the DIII-D National Fusion Facility at each of the American Association of University Women California Tech Trek three virtual summer camps on 6/22, 7/13/21, 7/27/21. Approximately 600+ 8th grade girls attended over these three dates. Prep included making over 1000 spectroscope kits for the campers and filming a 45 minute DIII-D tour. |
| Kyle Wirth | GA-ASI | Rose Elementary, Escondido CA | Purchased 5 Sphero SPRK+: App-Enabled Robot Ball with Programmable Sensors + LED Lights | Since I was unable to attend in person, I told the teacher to have the students watch this video: Watch Here I then zoomed into the classroom asking for questions/support/troubleshooting. |
| Chad Rutherford | GA-ASI | Sunkist Elementary School, Anaheim CA | 1. 20x lego airplanes 2. 1x Paper Airplane book 3. 1x History of Aviation book |
Plan on talking to students about my career and what GA does. I have a presentation that I have used before and the class has robots that the students can program from a previous GASSSS project. We will then work on programming the robots from the computer and spend the rest of the day assisting with science activities. This will either be virtual or since I am vaccinated, I am awaiting approval to come into the class room. The computer will be left with the class so they can continue to use it for learning coding. |
| Laurie Munoz | GA-ASI | Biomedical Sciences Academy - Eastside High School, Lancaster CA | Water Kit – 10-cup set from 3D Molecular Designs | I provided the water kit to the teacher, and helped her assemble and organize the various components. I then assisted in two Applied Chemistry classes where we demonstrated the use of the water kits to cover a variety of topics including polarity, cohesion versus adhesion, and the strengths of various bonds. The use of the water kits really helped the students visualize and better understand these various concepts. Fun and functional. |
| Christoph Hiemcke | GA-ASI | TechnoTigers FLL Robotics Team, Escondido CA | Team Techno Tigers used the funds to register for the season, to buy the “FLL Challenge set” which is the printed robot course (new each year) and all associated obstacles, and to buy T-shirts | I was present at each team gathering, helping with strategy, building, and coding of the robot. After the pupils decided to do their innovation project on the subject of capturing methane on California’s dairy farms to use as fuel for dairy trucks, I was their main guide on performing research, absorbing and communicating scientific knowledge, and creating a poster. In an intuitive way we dealt with properties of gases (densities, boiling points, freezing points) and methods for (sometimes partially) fluidizing them to store them efficiently. |
| Yangyang Yu | GA-ASI | FRC Team NOMAD Inc., Escondido CA | One XP Pen for Table Drawing for Mathcounts Club online training; Various Building Materials for Science Olympiad | Coaching Oak Valley Middle School Mathcounts Team; Coaching Oak Valley Middle School Science Olympiad Team. |
| Kerry Rutherford | GA-ASI | Sunkist Elementary School, Anaheim CA | Funding will be used to purchase a laptop/tablet to allow the students to program/code some STEM robots purchased on a previous GASSSS activity. | Prepared a presentation and talked to the students about GA, what we do, and how I contribute. From there we talked about drones, and how with programing we can have computers carry out tasks. We programmed their robots so they would respond to their commands, we also used the live control feature, and controlled the classes robots in real time. I spent the remainder of the day helping with science activities.. |
| Joshua Hicok | GA | Kearny High School, FIRST Robotics Team 1572, San Diego CA | To purchase robot materials and tools to assemble the robot. Tools including a drill, drill bit sets, and batteries were purchased. Hardware was also purchased to be used in the fabrication of a new robot cart that will be used at competitions. | I assisted in instructing students on the use of CAD software as well as design practices in order to design and model a robot cart. Once the design was finished we transitioned to the machine shop where I instructed the students on how to use the various machines and how we will use them to fabricate the new cart. |
| Esteban Bagdy | GA | Bernardo Heights Middle School, San Diego, CA | 9 units of each: Liquid crystal paper, copper rods, copper thermal pipes and plastic rods. 1 unit each: Rectangle of aerogel and Pyrolytic graphene (stretch goals) | I met with the teacher to walk through demonstrations of the different materials and using ice cubes to rapidly cool down the materials as they were mounted to adhesive-backed Liquid Crystal paper to visually show the shift in temperature of the material over time. We also tested a Bunsen burner demonstration using the Aerogel and metal tray to demonstrate the insulating effects on a piece of chocolate. I used Zoom to meet with the students, giving them a history of my path through school, my educational background, and describing the positions I have held and GA along with descriptions of all the GA related fields. Finally, I gave some background on the activities planned for the day before I was opened to questions. |
| ThienNhut Dinh | GA-ASI | Harriet Tubman Charter, San Diego CA | Cricut Joy Machine DIY Card Making Bundle and accessories and parts; Lego Education Animals; Slime Kits | I worked with the students with various science and engineering stations. I was able to brief the students on GA’s products and how everything started from an idea. I assisted Mrs. Dinh in running small groups for different science experiments. There were three different groups working on different science experiments. I worked with the kindergartens group. They were working on coloring and making windmills that were cut out using the Cricut machine and testing to see if they would spin outside. Through this simple experiment, we were able to understand effects of wind power and power collection devices. |
| Daniel Turitto | GA-ASI | San Dieguito Academy High School, Encinitas CA | (1) Power Distribution Panel (PDP) – Central for the distribution of the robots power. FRC specific part made for power distribution of all electrical aspects, on a robot. (2) Voltage Regulator Module (VRM) – used for voltage regulation on items that requires les than 12V to run. Examples: camera, lights and Raspberry Pi. (3) Battery Beak – used to test robot 12V battery levels. | Mentoring engineering and design principles as well as technology skills for designing, building and competing in the FIRST Robotics Competitions. Participation in off-season plus/delta review and mock kick-off event. The Team participated in 3 off-season events, which prompted the post event reviews for design and competition improvements. The Team is preparing for the FIRST kick-off event. This teaches Team members how to enhance their participation. |