Outreach
The division that carries the mission outward
Outreach represents DRACO beyond the rocket — promoting STEM education, connecting with the community, and inspiring students across Puerto Rico. The division builds the next generation of STEM professionals and represents Puerto Rico's aerospace future.
Hardware in the room changes the conversation
A slide deck explains what a rocketry team does. An airframe on the desk in front of a student is what makes it feel reachable.
Members walk students through how the team is actually organized — every division, from structures and recovery to payload and business — and bring real components for them to see up close.
The goal is not to recruit a fourteen-year-old. It is to make aerospace engineering look like something students in Puerto Rico do, so that when the decision comes years later, it already feels possible.
Two very different rooms
The same hardware, presented to a professional aerospace audience and to the general public, requires two different conversations.
At a professional summit the audience already knows what a rocket is. Here the conversation is about design decisions, flight results, and what a student team in Puerto Rico is capable of building.
Media coverage reaches the people who will never attend a launch or a summit — families, future students, and the island at large. It is how the team's work becomes part of a wider story about Puerto Rico.
Where the next members come from
Campus events are the front door. Prospective members meet the team, handle the hardware, and find out that no experience is required — commitment matters most.
UPRM open house · recruitment
What Outreach owns
STEM outreach & educational programming
Building sessions that turn a rocket into something a student can actually picture themselves working on.
School visits & community events
Taking real hardware into classrooms and public spaces across the island.
Public engagement & recruitment support
Representing the team wherever prospective members and the wider community encounter DRACO.
Representing Puerto Rico's aerospace talent
Showing that a competitive high-power rocketry program is being built here, by students from here.
Building relationships across the STEM community
Keeping DRACO connected to the schools, organizations, and professionals who share the mission.
Outreach extends DRACO's mission beyond the launch rail — inspiring students who may one day join the team, or the aerospace industry itself.
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The next generation is already in the room
Outreach is how DRACO reaches the students, families, and partners who will carry Puerto Rico's aerospace future forward.