Texas Youth Aerospace Association

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A sleek, modern aerospace classroom rendered in photographic realism, with a large, detailed scale model of a white and blue launch vehicle as the central focus on a sturdy metal lab table. Around it, open textbooks, glossy star charts of the Milky Way, and clear plastic bins filled with electronic components suggest active STEM learning. Floor-to-ceiling windows reveal a sunlit Texas landscape with distant wind turbines and a wide, open sky. Soft afternoon natural light spills across the polished concrete floor, creating gentle reflections and long, calm shadows. Captured at eye level with a slightly wide angle, the composition feels clean, professional, and aspirational, emphasizing a bright, organized space dedicated to aerospace education and exploration.

Inspiring Texas youth to reach for space

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A highly detailed photographic close-up of a hexagonal table covered with hands-on aerospace STEM materials: a partially assembled balsa-wood glider, a 3D-printed satellite chassis with tiny mock solar panels, and a tablet displaying a colorful orbital simulation. Surrounding the table are neatly labeled safety goggles, rulers, and graph paper covered in precise pencil diagrams of flight paths. The background shows a blurred Texas school lab with blue lockers and a wall mural of the state outline filled with stars. Cool, even overhead lighting creates crisp clarity and minimal shadows. Shot from a slightly elevated angle with shallow depth of field, the scene feels focused, educational, and dynamic, conveying the excitement of youth aerospace projects without showing any people.

About

Texas Youth Aerospace Association is a 2026 nonprofit founded by Hanson Du to connect Texas youth with hands-on aerospace and space science learning.

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Programs

A realistic nighttime scene of a small observatory dome on the flat Texas plains, its white curved surface illuminated by soft red and blue security lights. The telescope extends through an open hatch, aimed toward a sky bursting with clearly visible constellations and the faint band of the Milky Way. In the foreground, a sturdy folding table holds laminated star maps, a rugged laptop with a dim screen glow, and a small model rocket standing upright on a launch pad replica. The mood is calm and contemplative, with cool starlight and subtle ground lighting creating gentle contrasts. Captured from a low angle, the composition emphasizes the vast sky and the observatory as a gateway to space science learning.

Weekend workshops introduce rocketry, flight, and space science through fun, beginner-friendly experiments and projects.

A bright Texas outdoor aerospace workshop set on a sunlit, dry grass field beside a modern school building with a brick-and-glass facade. In the center, several vividly painted model rockets are arranged upright on a safe, fenced-off launch rack, each with distinctive fins and patterns resembling real launch vehicles. Nearby tables hold neatly organized toolkits, safety checklists without visible text, and colorful payload canisters ready for experiments. The sky is broad and intensely blue, with high, wispy clouds. Warm midday sunlight creates clear, crisp shadows and highlights the vivid colors of the rockets. Photographic realism, captured from a slightly low angle to make the rockets appear tall and inspiring, conveying energy, safety, and structured aerospace education.

Summer camps immerse students in aerospace design challenges, mission simulations, and team problem-solving.

An interior of a high-tech aerospace design lab rendered in clean, photographic detail, dominated by a large interactive wall display showing a complex orbital diagram around Earth, depicted as a glowing blue sphere with multiple satellite paths. In front, a long workstation holds scale models of spacecraft, wings, and reentry capsules arranged on cutting mats, alongside mechanical pencils, calipers, and sticky notes turned away from the camera. Large windows reveal a hazy Texas city skyline and a distant water tower under a bright sky. Cool, diffuse overhead lighting mixes with soft natural light, creating an efficient, studious atmosphere. Shot from a wide, slightly elevated angle for full-room context, the composition feels professional, organized, and perfectly suited for youth learning about satellite design and mission planning.

Mentorship programs connect Texas students with college and industry role models in aerospace careers.

A spacious Texas hangar-style space converted into an aerospace education center, with a sleek, silver experimental aircraft fuselage section as the centerpiece on wheeled stands. Its riveted aluminum skin, exposed internal framework, and mock control cables are shown in sharp, photographic detail. Around it, informational display boards without readable text, interactive touchscreens, and glass cases with historical model spacecraft line the walls. Warm overhead industrial lights cast clear, even illumination, while sunlight filters through high clerestory windows, creating streaks of light across the polished concrete floor. Shot from an eye-level perspective with strong depth of field, the mood is inspiring and museum-like, emphasizing hands-on exploration of flight structures and aerospace history in a Texas context.

School partnerships bring TYAA aerospace demonstrations and curriculum support directly into Texas classrooms.

Upcoming Events

06/10/26

Space Center

Houston, TX

Event info

07/08/26

Aero Lab

Dallas, TX

Details

08/19/26

STEM Center

San Antonio

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06/17/26

STEM Lab

East Houston

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07/22/26

Flight Museum

Fort Worth, TX

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09/02/26

Tech Campus

El Paso

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06/24/26

Aviation Hangar

Ellington Field

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08/05/26

Space Club

Austin, TX

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09/16/26

Youth Hub

Rio Grande

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A clean, modern robotics lab themed around aerospace exploration, focused on a detailed rover prototype sitting atop a sandy, reddish testing bed that mimics a Martian surface. The rover features articulated wheels, a small mast with simulated cameras, and a compact body with mock instrument panels. Surrounding benches hold open laptops, neatly coiled cables, and modular sensor kits, all carefully arranged. Large windows reveal a bright Texas suburban campus with live oaks and a clear sky. Soft, diffused daylight combines with cool LED ceiling lights, producing an even, technical clarity. Captured from a low, three-quarter angle to showcase the rover’s complexity, the composition feels forward-looking and educational, conveying how space robotics is taught in a professional, youth-focused environment.
A realistic, sunlit Texas classroom corner dedicated to aerospace, centered on a large, wall-mounted relief map of the state filled with tiny 3D rocket icons marking different cities. Below, sturdy wooden shelves display carefully crafted model rockets, shuttle replicas, and simplified satellite mockups, each sitting on labeled bases turned away from the viewer. A corkboard holds colorful mission patch designs without readable text. Golden afternoon light streams through nearby windows with venetian blinds, casting patterned shadows across the wall and models. Captured at eye level with moderate depth of field, the composition feels warm, local, and aspirational, highlighting how aerospace education connects directly to communities across Texas without showing any people.

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Updates

Get Texas aerospace news and youth opportunities.

A dramatic, photographic close-up of a small supersonic wind tunnel setup in a university-style lab, designed for youth outreach in aerospace. The polished metal test section holds a slender, matte-gray wing model with pressure tap lines running along its surface, all rendered with crisp detail. Transparent acrylic walls around the tunnel allow a view of colored smoke or dye streaks flowing smoothly over the wing, frozen in motion. The background reveals blurred lab benches, oscilloscopes, and aerodynamic diagrams. Focused overhead task lights create bright highlights on metal edges and subtle reflections on acrylic surfaces, while the rest of the lab falls into soft shadow. Shot from a low, side angle, the mood is precise, technical, and exciting, emphasizing real engineering tools used for aerospace education.

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