Serves: Washington, DC, Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and West Virginia

The SSPI Mid-Atlantic Chapter boasts an energetic and active chapter, with educational and networking events throughout the year. These events support our scholarship activities, allowing the Chapter to award more than $173,000 to space and satellite related educational programs and area university students over the past 14 years. 

JOIN US FOR THE 2023 SSPI-MA GOLF TOURNAMENT AT WESTFIELDS!

Thursday, August 24, 2023 - 1pm shotgun start

Network! ... Raise money for local scholarships! ... Win raffle prizes! 

We are returning to Westfields Golf Club for 2023. After a successful event in 2022, SSPI Mid Atlantic Chapter has decided to return to Westfields for our August 2023 Golf Tournament. Registrations include the following:

• Greens & cart fees
• Practice range balls
• Clubs cleaned post-round
• On course towel service
• Golf bag handling
• Professional scoring
• Boxed lunch (sandwiches, beer and soft drinks) prior to start of play
• Post-play BBQ dinner (pulled pork, BBQ chicken breast, beer + soft drinks)

For more information on sponsorships and registration, follow this link

Officers:
President (2022-2023): Marie-Pierre Pluvinage
Vice President (2022-2023): George Knizewski
Secretary (2021-2023): Pat Rayerman
Treasurer (2022-2024): Brian Hult
Immediate Past President (2022-2023): Eileen McGowan
Executive Committees:
Scholarship Co-Chairs (2021-2023): Mark Lekowski & Keir Daniels
Membership Chair (2022-2024): Carolyn Cuppernull
Mentorship Chair (2021-2023): Alena Koci
Programs Co-Chairs (2022-2023): Arnie Christianson & Haleigh Kling
Publicity Chair (2022-2023): Blake Wiles
Directors:
(2022-2024) Fabien Armogathe
(2021-2023) Vincenzo Cordaro
(2022-2024)  Aatam Godhwani
(2021-2023) Jodi Goldberg
(2022-2024) Amit Katti
(2021-2023) David Kaufman
(2022-2024) Justin Park
Counsel to SSPI: Dara Panahy, Milbank

Student Board Observers:
(2022-2023) Jay Deorukhkar, GMU

The Mid-Atlantic Chapter's scholarship program provides grants each year to three Mid-Atlantic area universities to support students pursuing studies space- and satellite-related studies. In partnership with The George Washington University, George Mason University and The University of Maryland, scholarship awards have supported 33 scholarships totaling $132,000.

In addition, each spring, the Chapter hosts a student prize competition, modeled after the Pelton Prize and developed in consultation with Dr. Joseph N. Pelton, former Dean of the International Space University and Vice Chairman and Founder of the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation. During the competition, graduate and undergraduate engineering students present their projects to a panel of industry experts who evaluate the students' projects via Q&A, scoring them on technical, presentation and other criteria to determine the winners in three different categories.