Northern Caribbean University, a Seventh-day Adventist liberal arts college, will host NASA representatives as they launch a model rocket during the school's inaugural Inventors, Researchers and Entrepreneurs convention and trade expo from April 5 to 8.
Northern Caribbean University, a Seventh-day Adventist liberal arts college, will host NASA representatives as they launch a model rocket during the school’s inaugural Inventors, Researchers and Entrepreneurs convention and trade expo from April 5 to 8.
Two representatives of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration—Herman Hines, program manager at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md, and Alphonso Stewart, a NASA aerospace engineer—are expected to top the list of participants at the IRAE convention and trade expo in central Jamaica.
The NASA team will also give a presentation on aerospace engineering and provide an update on the cause of the Feb. 1 explosion of the Columbia shuttle while re-entering earth’s atmosphere over the United States, killing the entire crew.
The convention and trade expo is organized by the College of Business and Information Science at NCU in collaboration with the Manchester, Jamaica, Chamber of Commerce. Sponsored by more than a dozen corporate and government entities, including the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), it seeks to bring together inventors, researchers, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists for several seminars. Phillip Paulwell, minister of commerce and technology, is scheduled to deliver the keynote address during the opening ceremony.
Kathy Sledge, lead singer for the American singing group Sister Sledge, will be among the entertainers performing at the event.
The West Indies region of the Seventh-day Adventist Church operates NCU, which has an enrollment of some 4,500 students.
