Speaker Biography

Kevin Simmons

CEO

BLUECUBE Aerospace

Kevin L. Simmons leads the Wolfpack CubeSat Development teams (WCDT) in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. He is Principal Investigator WeissSat-1 and CapSat-1, CubeSat missions selected by NASA’s CubeSat Launch Initiative (CSLI) in 2017 and 2019. He led the first middle school team to launch a CubeSat on December 3rd, 2018 and his WCDT was the only K-12 entity selected nationwide by the 2019 CSLI. He teaches Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Aerospace to middle school students full-time with an emphasis on entrepreneurship. He is trained as a biochemist, and has worked in industry, military and academia. He founded BLUECUBE Aerospace, LLC and recently co-created the Aerospace and Innovation Academy, Inc. Simmons completed two years as an Albert Einstein Distinguished Educator Fellow and four years as a senior policy analyst in the National Science Foundation’s Engineering Directorate. There he focused on industry-university partnerships and the SBIR program. He is the current American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Palm Coast section Public Policy chair and for several years was Florida’s team captain for the AIAA Congressional Visits Day. Simmons awards include the National Space Council Space Worker Hall of Fame, AIAA Foundation Educator Achievement Award, Dwyer Award for Excellence in STEM education, National Coalition for Aviation and Space Education Crown Circle Award, National Engineering Week STEM Educator Award, and Alan Shepard Technology in Education Award. He has Biochemistry and Chemistry degrees from North Carolina State University and has completed masters level classes in Aerospace Science.