{"id":4126,"date":"2020-06-11T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.dream.press\/?post_type=customer-spotlight&p=4126"},"modified":"2025-05-06T20:22:04","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T20:22:04","slug":"rocketstem","status":"publish","type":"customer-spotlight","link":"https:\/\/news.dream.press\/news\/customer-spotlight\/rocketstem\/","title":{"rendered":"RocketSTEM Ignites a Love of Space and Science in the Next Generation of Explorers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

During the 2009 recession \u2014 \u201cI guess we can call that the small recession now,\u201d Chase Clark quips \u2014 Clark decided he\n was ready for a new adventure. A longtime journalist and graphic designer, he was living in South Florida, working for\n a company that produced NFL game magazines. When the economy started to tank, he decided to look for a change of\n scenery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark\u2019s first stop? Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Press credentials in hand, he moved to the cape for a few months and landed a front-row seat to the last of NASA\u2019s\n missions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was an amazing time where I was able to photograph the orbiter inside the Vehicle\n Assembly Building<\/a>,\u201d Clark says.\u201d I got to walk all around the launch pad while Atlantis, the last NASA shuttle\n sent into space<\/a>, was being prepared for launch. I even sat in the cockpit of two of the space shuttles as they\n were being decommissioned. Those were amazing opportunities that very, very few people have ever been allowed to\n have.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark\u2019s close encounter with NASA\u2019s final launches ignited a passion for all things space and space exploration. In\n 2012 he teamed up with a group of like-minded volunteers to launch RocketSTEM<\/a>, an educational resource for students, parents, and\n teachers that aims to foster interest in scientific fields through the lens of space exploration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRocketSTEM is a nonprofit educational media organization devoted to inspiring the next generation of explorers,\u201d\n Clark says. \u201cEasy enough to say, but that can be accomplished a million different ways. In our case, we focus on using\n the history of space exploration and the wonders of the universe as a gateway to getting students into considering\n following a STEM-centric career path, whether that be as an engineer, a scientist, a doctor, or an astronaut. Our\n website tries to offer a variety of content for varying education levels that can be utilized by teachers and\n homeschooling parents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Just as the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools around the world, RocketSTEM launched a series of online educational\n resources \u2014 lessons<\/a>, space-themed math\n problems<\/a>, games<\/a>, and more \u2014 to help keep\n them entertained and learning. Clark has seen a surge in web traffic and has relied on DreamHost<\/a> to keep the site up and running for the past eight years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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