About Us
Our Student Scientists
Teachers
Here at St. Stephan's Episcopal Day School we are proud of supporting the growth of our students and enhancing their learning experience through real-world, hands-on learning experiences that will launch them into the future with the tools they need to be successful.
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Earth & Space Science
Passionate environmentalist, musician, and science teacher, Mr. Foote brings years of expertise to Gulliver's GBE Program as he was one of the original educators at Fairchild who helped design the program for students.
Fooe@gulliverschools.org
Rodriguez is an author and illustrator, instructional designer and a passionate educator who’s excited about infusing the classroom with creativity, technology, science and good vibes. This is her 4th year working on the GBE Challenge.
rodva@gulliverschools.org
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Fairchild Support Team
Carl Lewis
Director at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden @fairchildgarden
https://twitter.com/carllewis
Scientists
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We are fortunate to be working with talented, dedicated, and incredibly inteligent members of NASA who will be guiding, reviewing, and using the data we collect to further their research for NASA's Journey to Mars
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Gioia Massa is a NASA scientist at Kennedy Space Center in Florida working on food production for the International Space Station (ISS) and future exploration endeavors. She led the science team for the Veggie hardware validation on ISS and she heads an interdisciplinary group to study fertilizer and light impacts on nutrition and flavor of Veggie-grown crops. In addition to Veggie she helps with science needs for other space station hardware and works with external investigators to get their science to function on the station. She also is involved with education and outreach programs related to plants in space. Gioia became interested in growing plants in space in an agriculture class when she was 12 years old. Her passion is to enable NASA’s grand challenge of space colonization as humanity transitions from a planet-bound to a spacefaring civilization.
Trent Smith is working strategic communications for the Program Control and Integration Office of NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Through development phases with aerospace industry partners, CCP is leading the nation's effort to facilitate commercial vehicle development and certification to enable the safe transportation of NASA astronauts to the International Space Station and other low-Earth orbit destinations from U.S. soil.