Meet Our Partners

dgerson 2014-12-23 06:26:41 UTC #1

We wouldn't be able to expand the GSBC as we're doing without the help of our Partners who support space and education around the world. We want you to get to know them and what they're doing and so each of them is going to introduce themselves on this post. Feel free to ask them questions and reach out for their contact information to learn more!

jono 2014-12-24 03:48:55 UTC #2

Proud to partner the idea & the people of GSBC, all the way from South Africa!

The Foundation for Space Development, South Africa, is a registered non-profit organization established in 2009 to promote Space Awareness, Education & Outreach.

We see the Global Space Balloon Challenge as a phenomenal opportunity to bring Space to the classrooms of South Africa in a low cost & very high participation manner. It is for this reason that we will be throwing our full weight behind the 2015 Challenge to create a platform for participation from University, Club & Society levels all the way down to rural primary schools.

We are very proud to be aboard!

The Foundation's highest profile (collaborative) program is the Africa2Moon Mission.

Africa has many Space Application Mission programs under its belt but Africa2Moon is its first Space Exploration Mission!

The mission program team has also partnered with GSBC and sees the challenge as an opportunity for pre-cursor, public participation, events.

On behalf of both the Foundation and Africa2Moon we are very excited about the partnership and being a cog in the wheel to promote this great event regionally and to provide support to participants wherever and whenever we can.

Wishing everyone a joyous festive season & an astronomical 2015,

Jonathan Weltman
CEO of the Foundation for Space Development, South Africa
Project Administrator of the Africa2Moon Mission Program

robert 2014-12-24 04:38:18 UTC #3

The Stanford Student Space Initiative (Stanford SSI) is part of how the GSBC started, and we're honored to continue participating in it. We are a student group at Stanford University dedicated to advancing the next age of space exploration through education, engineering projects, and empowering Stanford students to participate in the space revolution. We focus on giving students the opportunity to both build projects, as well as meet and learn from the industry.

SSI has it's own balloon group, and they're the team of the week this week! I won't spoil what they're planning for the GSBC, but it's going to be pretty cool.

If anyone who participates in the GSBC is ever around the Bay Area, CA, shoot me a message (my email is on the above website) and I'd love to meet and talk about space, balloons, science, and the future!

Happy Holidays,

Robert Jackson
Co-President, Stanford SSI
VP of Infrastructure, GSBC

hannahrae 2014-12-29 16:56:45 UTC #4

Hi everyone!! I'm Hannah, the Chair of Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS), USA. (We also have a UKSEDS, SEDS-India, SEDS-Cyprus, SEDS-Korea, and SEDS-Nigeria.) We are a 501(c)3 nonprofit of passionate and driven students dedicated to the realization of a space-faring humanity through the empowerment and enablement of young people. SEDS-USA supports a network of more than 2,000 students from diverse backgrounds and fields of study with chapters at universities all over the United States. We host several projects at the national level, including the University Student Rocketry Competition, the NewSpace Student Business Plan Competition in partnership with Space Frontier Foundation, and SpaceTalks. We have merged our national High Altitude Balloon Competition with the Global Space Balloon Challenge. Our national annual conference, SpaceVision, is the largest student-run space conference in the world, hosted in the Fall of each year in partnership with a bid-winning chapter.

SEDS-USA is sponsoring the "Best Space Technology Demonstration" prize to encourage teams to do space scalable experiments on their balloons. We are super excited to be part of the team this year! Y'all are wonderful!

SGAC 2014-12-30 13:55:05 UTC #5

The Space Generation Advisory Council is very excited to have partnered with the Global Space Balloon Challenge. We believe that this is a fantastic event and we will help spread the word to have more teams from around the world participating.

Space Generation Advisory Council (SGAC) in support of the United Nations Programme on Space Applications is a global non-governmental organization with over 4000 members between the ages of 18 and 35 years old from more than 100 countries.

SGAC works on an international, national and local level to link together university students and young professionals to think creatively about international space policy issues by providing a platform for the next generation to have their views heard.