{"id":81,"date":"2024-12-31T15:00:15","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T23:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2025-02-17T00:09:15","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T08:09:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Aurora<\/h2>\n<p>Aurora Lipper here. I am a mechanical engineer, university instructor, pilot, astronomer, and busy mom of four. I have taught science classes and workshops to over ten thousand kids since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>I started teaching Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly State University at age 21, and then started volunteering my time teaching in local high and junior high schools. I had also worked for NASA when I was 17 in addition to being a pilot, and all these things combined catapulted me into a life-long career in education and sharing my love for learning and science with others.<\/p>\n<p>I teach in a unique and totally fun way by having students focus on wonder, discovery, and exploration. My classes exceed state and national standards, STEM requirements, and are engaging, fun, and totally hands-on.<\/p>\n<p>My online school has won many awards: Top 100 Sites for Homeschoolers by Homeschool.com,  Blue Ribbon Award by Old Schoolhouse Magazine, Top 101 Pick from Cathy Duffy\u2026 and so many more!<\/p>\n<p>Myself, I won all kinds of awards when I was in school for mathematics and science. But I think the best awards I have ever received are the smiles I see on the faces of the students and parents when they get their a-HA! moments.<\/p>\n<p>I have a Bachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mathematics and a specialized study in High Temperature Gas Dynamics during my PhD work at Stanford.<\/p>\n<p>My company, Supercharged Science, provides science education to families and teachers, and it really is an expression of what I am committed to: helping people enjoy science as much as I do, learn something new, and having a total blast.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"op3-element__image op3-element-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/IMG_2215.jpg\" alt=\"The boy was performing an experiment for his science project.\" title=\" About Supercharged Science\" width=\"1066\" height=\"1600\" data-op3-attachment-id=\"10620\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Supercharged Science<\/h2>\n<p>Supercharged Science provides outstanding science and math education for all kids worldwide, taught by a scientist who is truly passionate about science, mathematics, and homeschool education. Supercharged Science&#8217;s mission is to ignite curiosity and help kids develop the tools and confidence they need to explore and be successful in their world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Aurora Aurora Lipper here. I am a mechanical engineer, university instructor, pilot, astronomer, and busy mom of four. I have taught science classes and workshops to over ten thousand kids since 1999. I started teaching Mechanical Engineering at Cal Poly State University at age 21, and then started volunteering my time teaching in local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"op_builder_full_width","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-81","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12040,"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions\/12040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.superchargedscience.com\/ss2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}