Every year, the Flagstaff Festival of Science allows NAU students, researchers, and faculty to share with the Flagstaff community some of the exciting and cutting-edge STEM research being conducted in the labs at NAU. In a STEM poster session in Ashurst Hall, Kai presented a poster on the work that he is conducting as part of his CCC2NAU “Pathway to the Skies” internship. In a cross-department between members of Christopher Edwards’ PIXEL lab in Astronomy and Planetary Sciences, and the Richardson Lab, Kai is working as part of a team putting together a “next generation” phenocam that would include three different camera systems, one for each of the visible (RGB), near-infrared, and thermal bands. In his poster, Kai explained the overall project goals and objectives, including some of the design challenges, and described his work in engineering and 3D printing a mount to securely hold all three camera sensors in precise alignment. Great job, Kai!
