After a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic, The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of The University of Alabama System, is once more hosting Tech Trek, an event designed to raise awareness and interest in STEM fields for rising eighth grade girls from across the state of Alabama. This year’s version of the program will mark the seventh time UAH has hosted the weeklong residential camp.

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CME) are two of the most energetic processes in the solar system, showering the Earth’s magnetic field with billions of tons of highly energetic plasma gas, potentially disrupting power grids, satellites and communications networks.