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ExoPlanet Technologies Delivered Successful SIFF Workshops for the Hispanics Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) STEM Conference at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA)

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HACU Youth Leadership Development Forum (YLDF) - October 7, 2016 ExoPlanet Technologies  delivered a series of STEM related workshops at a conference hosted by the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) at the University of Texas at San Antonio.   Anthony C. Bruins I and Michael McCullar delivered creative, innovative workshops that challenged the students with real-world problems from the space industry. Through our  SIFF workshops , we engaged the students right and left brain, minds and senses all at the same time. The energy released from the students was explosively contagious once their thinking unlocked from traditional methods of memorization.   In our four workshops for the day, the students generated over sixty new ideas per class for various ways of developing Cubesats for the  Macho Mengi (M2) Observatory System . We received survey data from over   128 students . Data showed a  23% gain  in numbers of stude...