Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
Natalia Santiago Ortiz is a dedicated Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, with a projected graduation in May 2027. Current roles include Student Volunteer at the College of Engineering's Manufacture Lab and Vice President of the AIAA Student Chapter UPRM. Previous experience includes working as a Research and Development Engineer at HCD Lab, focusing on virtual reality driving simulators, and serving as a Mechanical Engineer at AON Robotics, where robot designs were developed for VEX Competition. Additionally, Natalia has held outreach positions to promote engineering education among high school students and has contributed to various engineering projects, including modular rover design for space exploration and water energy conversion prototypes.
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Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS)
SEDS-USA is a non-profit organization that supports young people to participate and make an impact in space exploration. It helps students develop their technical and leadership skills by providing opportunities to manage and participate in national projects as well as to attend conferences, publish their work, and develop their professionalnetwork, in order to help students become effective in their present and future careers in industry, academia, government, and education.SEDS-USA is a student-run space organization that consists of an international community of high school, undergraduate, and graduate students from a diverse range of educational backgrounds in chapters all over the world, including Canada, India, Israel, Mexico, Nepal, Nigeria, Philippines, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The organization was founded in 1980 at MIT by Peter Diamandis, at Princeton University by Scott Scharfman, and at Yale University by Richard Sorkin. It is headquartered in Amherst, N.Y.