NASA SUITS VR Challenge 17-18
What We Do
The NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (NASA S.U.I.T.S.) Design Challenge is a mission-driven project in which university student teams design and create spacesuit informatics using an augmented reality (AR) Microsoft HoloLens platform. CU Boulder has been selected, along with a few other student teams from around the nation, to travel to NASA Johnson Space Center in Houstonm TX to test their prototypes in an on-site facility.
Outreach
The CU suits team believes that it can maximize the impact of its outreach by targeting a diverse group of students in the Denver/Boulder metro area. Outreach activities emphasize the NASA SUITS challenge, applications of augmented and virtual reality technologies, the engineering design process, and other STEM topics. Each member of the team can identify a rolemodel that participated in catylizing his or her passion for human space exploration. It is our mission to forge interpersonal connections with students to inspire them the way our mentors inspired us. A sucessful day of outreach educates, stimulates, and animates students.
Press Release
CU/NASA Team Visits Wheat Ridge Schools
A team of engineers from the University of Colorado visited with Gifted and Talented students at both Everitt Middle School and Stevens Elementary School on Friday, April 13th, to demonstrate how augmented virtual reality is used in space exploration. Approximately 130 students were introduced to the various aspects of the NASA program. Later, they were given time to interact with various virtual tools. Activities included flight simulation, liftoff and landing a SpaceX rocket, a space station power re-routing simulation, a virtual walk through the city of Paris or the International Space Station, and touching space station artifacts.
Students have an opportunity to explore flight simulation.
Although students were given the opportunity to try on space and flight gear, the CU presenters explained that there are many career opportunities at NASA.
Students explore the International Space Station through augmented virtual reality (AVR) tools.
Resolving a mock electrical emergency on the International Space Station allows students to recognize the value the AVR technology can bring to space exploration.
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How We do It
Microsoft HoloLens is the first self-contained, holographic computer, enabling you to engage with your digital content and interact with holograms in the world around you.
Who We Are
Jordan Dixon  Jordan is a 2nd year PhD student whose responsibilities are split between multiple S.U.I.T.S. subteams. He is from Kansas City and enjoys frolfing. | Ben Hagenau  Ben is a junior, the team's only undergraduate student, and a part of the Programming subteam. He hails from the Bay Area and is part of the CU Boulder rowing team. | Roger Huerta  Roger is a first year Master's Student on the Human Factors subteam. He is from El Masnou, Catalonia and enjoys long naps on warm afternoons. |
Carlos Pinedo  Carlos is a first year PhD student on the Human Factors subteam. He is from Torreon, Mexico and has flown over 30 unique U.S. and foreigh military aircraft over the course of his career in the USAF. | Kadambari Suri  Bari is a first year Master's student on the Human Factors subteam. She is from Long Island and loves to dance. | Mitch Woolever  Mitch is a first year Master's student on the Human Factors subteam. He is from Arvada, Colorado and is first and foremost a cat guy. |