She hasn’t even graduated from university, but Solange Cunin is already planning to send some very special cargo into space.
At 23, Cunin is the cofounder of the startup Quberider, which has developed a program for high school students that aims to teach coding and data analysis through the prism of space travel. She’s taken the semester off from studying aerospace engineering at the University of New South Wales to concentrate on the project as part of the Sydney accelerator program, muru-D.
Quberider, which had its official launch in February, is scheduled to send a payload containing the experiments of Australian students to the International Space Station (ISS), Cunin told Mashable Australia. On June 24, the package should head skyward aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Read more…
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