Students at Dade County Middle School in Trenton, Georgia are members of the HUNCH Program and are using the school’s Stratasys Fortus 450mc and high-performance ULTEM filament to produce flight-ready super-strength carbon fiber elements for NASA, the International Space Station, and other future space projects.
HUNCH started in 2003 with two schools in Alabama and one in Houston. There are currently 76 HUNCH Space Act Agreements across the country and the program has produced more than 1,500 training and flight items for the space station program.
Commenting on the project in Trenton, Bob Zeek, Co-founder of HUNCH, said, “This is a one-of-a-kind experience for the students in Dade County to kick-start their careers and interact with a piece of NASA. Empowering and inspiring the next generation of students is the key mission for the NASA HUNCH Program and will certainly ring true in Trenton this year. You never know, one of those students just might be the next NASA astronaut, engineer, or scientist.”
