Clubs at Booth

You would expect the Finance Club and Marketing club to be part of the many group offerings Evening and Weekend students take advantage of, but you might not know that Booth has 45 active student-led groups. From Social Impact and Wellness, to India and Poker Club, there’s an option for almost every interest you can think of. Below, we profile three clubs you might not expect Booth to have and asked some of the students who run them about their mission and activities.

Booth Aeronautics and Space Club

Co-chairs Ryan Crowley, Kishen Raghunath, Logan Ware, Weekend MBA

Booth Aeronautics and Space Club was founded a couple of years ago. We have 30 members, including full-time Booth students. The mission of the club is to expose people to the aerospace field. We get a lot of interest from people that are either in the industry or are interested in transportation like rail, airline management, or the space sector. Our members are interested in the venture capital funding going into the industry and the new start-ups being founded. We want to expose people to opportunities or jobs within traditional aerospace, startups, as well as the financing venture side.

We try to bring in interesting people to talk to our community to show how you can utilize your MBA to have a career in the space sector. This past year we had a talk with Sunil Nagaraj, managing partner and founder at Ubiquity Ventures. We also met with Laura Forczyk, founder and executive director of the Georgia Space Alliance. We’re working on putting together an annual case competition for aerospace start-ups. Financial services and consulting services aren’t the only career paths you can use a Booth MBA for, this is a really exciting industry.