Meet UBalt's 2021 NASA SUITS team: AstroBees

Third year's a charm

For the third consecutive year, The University of Baltimore is proud to have a team of students participating in the NASA Spacesuit User Interface Technologies for Students (SUITS) Design Challenge. NASA SUITS challenges students to design and create spacesuit information displays within augmented reality (AR) environments.

This year's team—once again known as the AstroBees—submitted a successful entry for the 2021 competition, and will present their design during the SUITS virtual test week in April. The 2021 teams were announced during a live broadcast.

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Najya I. Ahsan

• Program: B.S. in Applied Information Technology
• Role: project manager
• Subteam: Systems

Michael Andersen

• Program: B.S. in Applied Information Technology
• Subteam: Intra-Vehicular Activity/Mission Control Center (IVA/MCC)

Kaitlyn Baker

• Program: B.S. in Applied Information Technology
• Subteam: UI/UX/EVA

Jasmine Brown

• Program: B.S. in Applied Information Technology
• Role: advisor of the IVA/MCC subteam

Naiya Chapman-Weems

• Program: B.S. in Applied Information Technology
• Role: social media coordinator

Nathan Crowther

• Program: M.S. in Interaction Design and Information Architecture
• Subteam: UI/UX/Extra-Vehicular Activity (EVA)

Avery Dixon

• Program: B.S. in Simulation and Game Design
• Subteam: Social Media/Outreach

Manisha Gurung

• Program: B.S. in Applied Information Technology
• Subteam: Systems

Chantil Hunt Estevez

• Program: B.S. in Simulation and Game Design
• Subteam: User Interface/User Experience (UI/UX)

Joshua Jones

• Program: B.S. in Simulation and Game Design
• Subteam: UI/UX

Brian Kelly

• Program: Upper-Division Certificate in Computer Programming
• Subteam: Systems and IVA

Ghazaleh Keshavarz

• Program: Doctor of Science in Information and Interaction Design
• Subteam: UI/UX

Nuam K. Lun

• Program: B.S. in Applied Information Technology
• Subteam: Systems

Stephanie Parey

• Program: M.S. in Interaction Design and Information Architecture
• Subteam: UI/UX

Michael Vandi

• Program: B.S. in Applied Information Technology
• Subteam: UI/UX/EVA

Shawn Forrest

• Program: B.S. in Applied Information Technology
• Subteam: IVA/MCC 

Associate Professors Giovanni Vincenti and Greg Walsh serve as the team's faculty advisers.