In the Health and Biomedical Science category, participants chose projects based on needs for future NASA missions. GRCC professor Arthur Ward brought up the competition to Cole and Abby, who are in Launch U’s Middle College Engineering and Mechanical Design program. I think that was really great, because I think it helped get more people to understand the project without necessarily having to understand the engineering behind it.” Abby Tichelaar, a Launch U student, explains her team’s edible box project (courtesy) “They had no idea about any of the engineering, so you’d have to explain it to them. “I expected a lot more older people or people who were interested in engineering to come, but it turned out to be a whole bunch of kids and their parents who came (to the February event),” Cole said, adding they got a lot of positive feedback about their design. The design of the edible box (courtesy)Ĭole and Abby’s review took place via a video and brochure they created, and the pair got some practice presenting at a February preliminary round for the NASA HUNCH culinary program, in which two GRCC/Ottawa County Intermediate School’s Careerline Tech Center students participated. Each of the competition’s eight categories undergoes a critical design review that determines who will go to Houston to present. to create innovative products that could be used by the aeronautics and space agency. NASA HUNCH challenges students around the U.S. Their effort was one of 22 finalists in the Health and Biomedical Science category of the NASA HUNCH competition. The space-saving consumable packaging was designed not by aeronautics scientists but by Cole Herring and Abby Tichelaar, students in the Launch U program, a partnership between Kent ISD and Grand Rapids Community College. Kent ISD - It is a box that has the potential to withstand the tremendous G- forces created when rockets launch.
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