22-03-2025
Woodrow Wilson High School alum teaches NASA program to middle school students
OAK HILL, WV (WVNS) — A West Virgina University freshman is teaching middle school students in southern West Virginia about space weather.
Piper Dangerfield graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in May 2024 and entered the mechanical and aerospace engineering program at West Virginia University, where she is also a member of the Experimental Rocketry Club and works for the NASA West Virginia Space Grant at WVU.
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Through the West Virginia Science Public Outreach Team (SPOT), Dangerfield pioneered an effort to teach classes on space weather to middle school students, educating them on how what happens in the solar system and on the sun's surface may affect life on earth.
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'What I teach the students is just about everything I can, that has to do with satellites and space weather,' said Dangerfield on Friday, March 21, 2025. 'My big thing is solar wind and how it affects us, as well as the satellites in space, currently.'
Dangerfield, who was shown on national television as she performed with the WVU Marching Band during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York in November, said she is pursuing a minor in Music.
Dangerfield taught the space weather class at Oak Hill Middle School on Friday and said that she is scheduled to teach the class at Beckley Stratton Middle School in May.
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