COOS BAY, Ore. – Southwestern Oregon Community College invites the community to join us on Wednesday, November 18, 2026, at 6:00 pm, for a showcase of the experiment proposals that our SWOCC STEAM students have put forward for our entry into the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program Mission 22 that began in September. The student proposals showcase a wide variety of STEM concentrations and demonstrate the impact of cross-disciplinary and interdisciplinary collaborations within the sciences. We hope you will be able to attend and support our students. This is a free event; all ages are welcome.
Coos County residents can join us in-person in the Umpqua Hall lecture room (room 184) on the Coos Campus, 1988 Newmark Ave., Coos Bay.
Curry County residents can join us for a watch party in the Community Room on the Curry Campus, 96082 Lone Ranch Parkway, Brookings.
For those not able to attend in person the lecture will be streamed live on the College’s YouTube channel at: www.youtube.com/@southwesternOR/streams.
About the Program:
The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program [or SSEP] is a program of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally. It is enabled through a strategic collaboration with Rhodium Scientific, America’s first space biotech and ISS Commercial Service Provider, working with NASA through a CASIS Agreement to utilize its facilities aboard the International Space Station for this mission. SSEP is the first pre-college STEM education program that is both a U.S. national initiative and implemented as an on-orbit commercial space endeavor.
For more information about the lecture series contact Dr. Aaron Coyner, Associate Professor, Physics and Engineering at aaron.coyner@socc.edu or 541-888-7244.
For more information on upcoming lectures contact Krystal Hopper Meyers, STEAM Pathways Administrator, at 541-888-1518, or krystal.hopper@socc.edu .
To learn more about STEM degrees at Southwestern visit: https://www.socc.edu/programs-classes/stem/.