 |
 Paul
Verhage is a former USAF Officer who went back to school
to become a science teacher. He has taught meteorology,
physical science, and electronics. His current teaching
position is with the Dehryl A. Dennis Professional Technical
Education Center where he teaches four separate electronics
courses (DC Theory, AC Theory, Digital and Solid State,
and After-Market Auto). Paul's hobbies are camping and
hiking, electronics design, amateur science, and writing.
He travels the western US every summer and during Christmas
vacation to camp and hike in US National Parks and Forests
and to visit space and science museums. Paul designs
and builds printed circuit boards for his electronics
hobby. He builds and programs robot and rover projects
along with designing and flying functioning models of
spacecraft to altitudes in excess of 100,000 feet. Many
of Paul's near space flights carry experiments he designs,
like miniature weather stations, cosmic ray telescopes,
and imaging equipment. Paul is in the process of finishing
a book on how to create and manage a program of amateur
near space exploration that will be published by Parallax.
He currently writes the near space column for Nuts and
Volts magazine and other occasional articles in robotics,
amateur radio, and cultural magazines.
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