Volunteer Dr. Jessup receives APS Honored Citizen Award

We are thrilled that longtime Barrett volunteer, retired engineer Dr. Stu Jessup received an APS Honored Citizen Award for 2025 2026!  Dr. Jessup has volunteered in classrooms and in Project Discovery, collaborating with teachers to bring exciting hands-on STEM projects and experiments to our Barrett students. Some of the highlights are squishy circuits, electromagnets, designing and building boats for the huge water tow tank, building and racing cars, launching rockets, testing different airplanes, building with simple machines, the ocean profile mystery boxes, erosion rigs and experimenting with the awesome wind tubes built by Dr. Jessup!

Dr. Jessup was nominated by Project Discovery teacher Dr. Sullivan. The nomination packet contained links to videos, photos and letters of support from administrators, teachers, the Family Engagement Coordinator and APS Science and STEM Specialists.

Videos and Short Video Clips

• 43 second music video highlighting Dr. Jessup’s Engineering/STEM projects at Barrett Elementary Vimeo
• Filmed by APS – APS Primary Science Video Link Featuring Volunteer Engineer Dr. Stu Jessup
• Music video by 4th grade student Helen highlighting the Ocean Clean Up Engineering Design Challenge with Sphero robots – Collaborative lesson with Dr. Jessup, APS STEM Specialist
• Kinder jumps for joy with the Wind Tube built by Dr. Jessup “It’s so amazing! I’m the luckiest astronaut” Link
• 3rd Grade Students collect data during Color Tile Floating cone experiment with Dr. Jessup Vimeo Link
• Students collected data on boats in the Barrett tow tank built by Dr. Jessup – Link to Post
• Barrett students thanking Dr. Jessup and sharing their favorite parts of the engineering projects Vimeo Link

APS School Board Ceremony posted on Blue Sky: