STAR Microbial Fuel Cell

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Project Basics

Project Sponsor: Space Technology and Rocketry (STAR)

Awarded: $310.62

Grant Awarded: Fall 2020

Project Status: Complete

Project Description 

STAR's Microbial Fuel Cell project aims to reduce the carbon footprint and waste produced by our engineering team, and to set a precedent for improving sustainability in all areas - even those such as rocketry which seem, at a first glance, to be the antithesis of sustainability.

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