3U3: The IMAP Student Collaboration CubeSat Project Evaluation Strategies and Early Findings

The 3U3 Project is a student led CubeSat collaboration effort, associated with NASA's Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe Mission, between University of New Hampshire, Sonoma State University and Howard University. This presentation describes the overall goals of the project, both scientific and student focused, the strategies used so far to reach the student focused goals and the evaluation methods designed and employed thus far to measure baseline/preliminary progress towards the student focused goals. This project has recently completed the first of its four years.