Letter from the President and CEO
Welcome to The Aerospace Corporation’s 2021 Corporate Social Responsibility Report on behalf of our President and CEO.
ACE K-12 STEM Partnerships: Shaping the Future of Space
The Aerospace Committee for Equality (ACE) upholds the corporation’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) through its K-12 STEM outreach programs, ensuring a bright future for the next generation of scientists and engineers.
Corporate Social Responsibility at Aerospace
- STEM K-12
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Aerospace’s 2021 Summer of Stem
Nurturing the next generation of STEM talent requires advocacy and outreach to students of all ages, as well as their teachers.
Aerospace Rising Stars: Facilitating Pathways to Technical and Scientific Careers
The Aerospace Corporation is ensuring greater diversity and representation in scientific and technical fields by providing pathways to higher learning and academic resources for students in underserved communities.
Aero Scholar Winner and Scholarship Expansion
This year’s recipient of the Dr. Wanda M. Austin STEM Scholarship, the company’s top scholarship, was awarded to Antonio Garcia.
- Community Outreach
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Aerospace Volunteers Uplift Their Communities
Aerospace employees invest a lot of their own time and effort into giving back to their communities.
ACE Partnering with ERGs Accelerates Impact to Workplace and Community
Throughout the year, Aerospace fostered collaboration across the company to enhance and provide new opportunities for employees to engage in cultural awareness.
Aerospace Volunteers: Guiding Tomorrow’s Robotics Experts
Aerospace employees continued to find new and exciting ways to engage with the STEM community.
- Our People
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Fostering Culture of Trust, Inclusion and Belonging at Aerospace
Aerospace continues to invest in opportunities that enhance our employees’ abilities to bring their best selves to do their best work.
Providing Support for Communities Where Our People Work and Live
Aerospace continues to build on meaningful progress in advancing diversity, equity and inclusion.
State of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Aerospace has made progress on its DEI initiatives while transparently documenting successes and laying the groundwork for improvement.
Inspiring the Next Generation
STEM is a focal point of Aerospace’s education outreach initiatives. Aerospace employees like Will Santos share their stories in hopes of inspiring students to consider potential careers in the STEM disciplines.
Aerospace Leverages Expertise and Innovation for a Sustainable Future
From small satellites to the International Space Station, Aerospace employees are working on innovative new space capabilities to advance the understanding of Earth science and supporting ways to improve the environment.
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Aerospace employees in Albuquerque, NM enjoy an opportunity to engage with STEM students, providing them a chance to learn about the many exciting possibilities for space. -
Aerospace employees found many different ways to give back to our communities this year. Whether it was through volunteering or donating to good causes, our people are always motivated to improve the environment around them. -
Aerospace’s Via Van Liew, Director of DEI was recognized for her excellence as a finalist for Executive of the Year in the Los Angeles Business Journal’s Diversity, Inclusion + Equity Awards. -
Aerospace continued its partnership with TryEngineering to provide STEM students with opportunities to learn more about their possible future careers in these critical professional fields. -
Aerospace’s AeroScholars program encourages promising students early on to pursue STEM, supporting their interests through scholarships, internship and mentorship opportunities. -
Aerospace sponsored the Zero Robotics coding competition, which enabled students to apply their knowledge of computer programming and robotics to compete with other teams virtually in a final code-off competition. Cash prizes were awarded to the three winning teams. -
Space is more important to our daily lives than people realize! Aerospace takes the opportunity to share all the wonderful ways we rely on space during our STEM tours for students. -
Aerospace understands and appreciates the important roles teachers have in shaping the future of the next generation, which is why we support them by providing free teaching aids and lesson plans about space. -
At Aerospace, we firmly believe that it’s never too early (or too late) to start learning about STEM! -
Aerospace virtually hosted almost 300 kids this year for Take Your Kids to Work Day, which featured plenty of activities and games that inspired them to Imagine the Future of Space. -
Whether in-person or through virtual events, Aerospace is committed to educating and engaging with the next generation of the brightest minds. -
With our fun lesson plan, students are able to use the experimental science process to investigate the effect of temperature, hydration, or space vacuum on the mighty tardigrade. -
Aerospace’s AeroScholars program seeks out these promising students early on and provides them with resources and opportunities to pursue their dreams in the STEM fields. -
Increasing diversity in STEM is at the core of Aerospace’s outreach initiatives. Programs like the Dr. Wanda M. Austin STEM Scholarship aim to support promising students like 2021 recipient Antonio Garcia.