Above: Students experience the new Boeing Aerospace Adventure exhibit in San Antonio, which invites learners of all ages to become the next Boeing Aerospace Adventurer. (Boeing photo)

Texas high school student Siddhi Raut’s love of the universe began with seeing the word astrophysicist on a bulletin board at school. Unlocking mysteries of black holes and quantum mechanics blossomed ever since. 

Siddhi Raut during a NASA STEM internship in summer 2023.

 (Courtesy Siddhi Raut)

Raut recently had the opportunity to join the unveiling of the new Boeing Aerospace Adventure exhibit at Boeing Center at Tech Port in San Antonio, Texas.

“What’s especially exciting is how Boeing’s new experience directly connects young people with local industry,” Raut wrote in an article for the San Antonio Report.

The exhibit aims to promote science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) disciplines and educate students of all ages about careers in aerospace while offering hands-on activities and games centered around six different Boeing aircraft. Boeing Aerospace Adventure gives students the opportunity to design, build, modernize, and even take flight with the Starliner capsule, C-17 Globemaster, and Boeing ecoDemonstrator, among others.

Raut adds in the article, “Boeing has opened the doors of opportunities even wider to allow others to follow paths like the one I started back in middle school. It was difficult for me, but I’m glad to see the journey get increasingly easier for a new generation of ambitious students.”

Go deeper:

• Read the Op-Ed in the San Antonio Report.
• Read more on the grand opening of the exhibit at the Boeing Center at Tech Port.

Kim Smith, vice president of Global Operations, Quality and Program Management for Boeing Global Services, and Margaret Wilson-Anaglia, chair of the board for Port San Antonio, cut a ribbon to commemorate the grand opening of the Boeing Aerospace Adventure Exhibit located at the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology at the Boeing Center at Tech Port. (Boeing photo)