To strengthen the peer-peer network between students at both PEAQS institutions, build STROBE-PEAQS community, and expose PEAQS undergraduates to different materials science, imaging, and engineering research and careers, PEAQS hosted its first student retreat March 25-26th at CU Boulder.

The retreat featured a keynote presentation by Dr. Joe Berry from the National Renewable Energies Lab on cutting-edge solar energies materials, lab tours of STROBE and aerospace engineering labs, student presentations, a virtual tour of Ball Aerospace, a professional development interviewing workshop, and plenty of social time for the students to interact with and get to know their peers and STROBE graduate students.