Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

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Students for the Exploration and Development of Space

Founded	October 30, 1980
Founder	Peter Diamandis, Robert D. Richards, and Todd B. Hawley
Type	Student Organization
Focus	"to promote the exploration and development of space"
Origins	Started at MIT and expanded by letter to Omni magazine
Area served	Worldwide
Method	Student Collaboration and Connections with Space Companies
Members	10,000+
Key people	Sara Alvarado (current SEDS-USA Chair), Chimira Andres (current SEDS-Canada Chair), Arjun Raizada (current SEDS-India Chair), Holly Whitehouse (current UKSEDS Chair), Aleksandar Tashkovski (current Macedonian SEDS Chair)
Endowment	USA: $1,290,000
Website	seds.org, ukseds.org, sedsturkiye.com

Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS) is a non-profit international student organization whose purpose is to drive space advocacy of space exploration and development through educational and engineering projects.^[1]