Enterprise In Space
Diane Ward is an accomplished professional currently serving as Chair for the 2024 and 2025 SmallSat Education Conference at Kennedy Space Center, overseeing event management and sponsorship initiatives. As Director of Educational Outreach and Teacher Training for the Western New York Invention Convention, Diane has significantly increased participant engagement and outreach. Diane is also a Professor at Ducere Global Business School and holds the position of Chief Strategy Officer and Cofounder at Launchpad23, Inc., fostering an online environment for gifted students. Additional roles include Director of Educational Outreach and Training at Enterprise In Space and Volunteer Chair for the Space Force Association. Diane's extensive educational background includes a Masters in Informatics from the University at Buffalo, an MBA, and further certifications in business intelligence and web design from leading institutions.
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Enterprise In Space
The mission of Enterprise In Space (EIS) is to motivate students everywhere to reach for the stars. EIS will design, engineer, build, launch, orbit, recover, tour, and exhibit a spacecraft named NSS Enterprise containing over 100 student experiments. Students will use a new powerful artificial intelligence tool, learning to apply science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM), and communicate in natural language with their experiments. This project will demonstrate and pioneer new technologies while inspiring and encouraging space enterprise, and is a tribute to the many great visionaries of science and science fiction. EIS will engage and inspire the next generation – all ages and walks of life – by igniting a renewed interest in space exploration and development.