Emily Calandrelli
| Emily Calandrelli | |
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| Residence | San Francisco[1] |
| Citizenship | US |
| Alma mater |
West Virginia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| Known for | Xploration Station Host/Producer |
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Emily Calandrelli is the host and producer of Xploration Outer Space, a show in the STEM block, Xploration Station.
She is a professional speaker and presents on the topics of space exploration scientific literacy and equality of the sexes in STEM. Calandrelli is also a contributing writer at TechCrunch where she writes on technology developments in the space industry.[1]
Life
Emily Calandrelli was raised in Morgantown, West Virginia.[2] Calandrelli attended West Virginia University for her undergraduate education. In her freshman year, she took a semester off to work in the college program at Disney World with Disney Imagineering and was interested in designing rides.[1] In her sophomore year, Calandrelli had an engineering internship with NASA at Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.[2] She had a second NASA internship in the summer after her junior year at the NASA Academy in California. In her first senior year, she won the Truman Scholarship, which led to her working for her US Representative Alan B. Mollohan.[1] She received two Bachelor of Science degrees in Aerospace Engineering and in Mechanical Engineering.[2] Upon graduation, Calandrelli moved to China for a National Science Foundation internship.[1]
She later attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for her Masters.[2] During her first year in graduate school, she worked at the Commercial Spaceflight Federation. In 2013, Calandrelli graduated with a Masters in Aeronautics and Astronautics and a Masters in Technology and Policy. As a Harvard NASA Tournament Lab visiting scholar, she assisted organizations in using crowdsourcing to solve technical challenges.[2]
She began hosting Xploration Outer Space in the Xploration Station educational block in 2014.[2]
Awards
While at West Virginia University Calandrelli was awarded the Harry S. Truman Scholarship, Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, and the USA Today All USA Academic Team.[1] At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Calandrelli was awarded the Rene H. Miller Prize for the best piece of Systems Engineering work in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department.
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Wood Rudulph, Heather (October 5, 2015). "Get That Life: How I Became the Host of a TV Show About Outer Space". Cosmopolitan (Hearst Communications, Inc.). Retrieved October 22, 2015.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Gifford, Kelly (September 13, 2014). "Emily Calandrelli’s new frontier". Boston Globe. Retrieved October 22, 2015.