Brad Truxillo, a freshman majoring in electrical engineering at the ÐÓ°ÉרÇø, spent some of his summer working on hybrid rockets with NASA.
Truxillo, from Metairie, La., participated in an eight-week internship program at the John C. Stennis Space Center in Mississippi.
He built a hybrid rocket using oxygen and Plexiglas as fuel and also helped organize and collect engineering data from multiple projects He cataloged this info into NASAÐÓ°ÉרÇø™s database
Truxillo graduated from East Jefferson High School as co-valedictorian. NASAÐÓ°ÉרÇø™s internship program is part of its education strategy to attract and retain students in the science, technology, engineering and math disciplines critical to its missions.