Emily Calandrelli
| Emily Calandrelli | |
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| Residence | San Francisco[1] |
| Citizenship | US |
| Alma mater |
West Virginia University Massachusetts Institute of Technology Morgantown High School |
| Known for | Xploration Station Host/Producer |
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Emily Calandrelli is a field correspondent on Bill Nye Saves the World and 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 born and raised in Morgantown, West Virginia.[2] Coming from a family who never had a career outside of the state of West Virginia, she never aspired to do differently. This made her decision to attended West Virginia University for her undergraduate education an easy one. In her freshman year, she took a semester off to work in the college program at Disney World with Disney Imagineering.[1] This was her first time away from home and left her with an interest in designing rides as a Disney Imagineer. 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. It was during this time, along with the birth of other space organizations like SpaceX, that molded her thoughts about the space industry. In her first senior year, she won the Truman Scholarship, which led to her working one summer in Washington, D.C. for her US Representative Alan B. Mollohan.[1] During her summer there, she was required to give weekly presentations on the topics she was learning. With a new-found sense of self-confidence, Calandrelli applied for various national scholarships. In addition to receiving the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship, a research-based scholarship, she was given the prestigious honor of a position on the USA Today All USA Academic Team. This team is composed of the top 20 college students in the country and is based on academic and leadership excellence and performance. After her fifth year, she received two Bachelor of Science degrees in Aerospace Engineering Mechanical Engineering.[2] Upon graduation from WVU, Calandrelli moved to China for a National Science Foundation internship.[1] This internship consisted of working in a laboratory studying fuel cells and revising papers.
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 Fox Xploration Station educational block in 2014,[2] after being personally recruited by an Emmy-award-winning television producer. The series is part of a two-hour block featuring science and technology in conjunction with the popular STEM movement in American education. She focuses on the science and technology behind the project that the show is exploring. Calandrelli has had a lifelong passion of getting students, especially women interested in STEM.[3]
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.
- ↑ "Emily Calandrelli to Host "Xploration Outer Space" on FOX".