STOKE 101
This tag phrase kicks off the week at the close of the Monday Morning Meeting.
What is "Let's Get Crackin"?
CCFS
What is "Cape Canaveral Space Force Station"?
This school is where ten of our interns go to college, making it the top college for summer 2026 interns.
What is The University of Washington?
This iconic Seattle landmark offers panoramic views of the city and was built for the 1962 World's Fair.
This was the first artificial satellite.
What is Sputnik 1?
If an employee refers someone to this job, they are eligible for a $10,000 referral bonus.
What is "Fluids Engineering Manager - Nova Stage 1 & 2"?
FMECA
What is "Failure Modes, Effects, and Criticality Analysis"?
These four interns work at our Moses Lake Test Site.
Who are Andra Oltean, Sydney Chin, Connor Luce, and Alex Ignacio-Gomez?
Seattle is located on this large body of saltwater to the west.
What is Puget Sound?
This company flies the Neutron rocket.
Who is Rocket Lab?
This unique piece of clothing is widely considered a Stoke-staple.
What are "Jorts"?
HIL
What is "Hardware In the Loop"?
These two schools tied for second place as our top-attended schools for 2026 summer interns.
What is Georgia Tech and Purdue?
Seattle's professional hockey team joined the NHL in 2021 with this mythical name.
Who are the Seattle Kraken?
This space telescope replaced Hubble as NASA's flagship observatory in deep space.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
This year is the year Hopper flew.
When is 2023?
HGTV
What is "Hot Gas Throttle Valve"?
This is the number of interns who are here for their second internship, including those that extended from spring to summer.
What is 18?
This Washington national park contains more glaciers than any other U.S. national park outside of Alaska.
What is North Cascades National Park?
This Apollo mission was nicknamed the "successful failure."
What is Apollo 13?
According to the Nova schedule, this is the date for the Flight 1 V1 launch.
When is 12-19-2026?
OML
What is "Outer Mold Line"?
This intern is the first intern on their team/department.
Who is Taylor Campbell?
This Seattle-born musician is widely considered one of the greatest guitarists of all time and performed at Woodstock.
Who is Jimi Hendrix?
This company built the LauncherOne rocket.
What is Virgin Orbit? (RIP)
These seven values make up the Stoke ethos.
What is Ownership, Trust, Skill, Humility, Do the Impossible, Grit, and Integrity?
WPR
What is "Work Plan Run"?
This department took the most summer interns, with seven interns total.
What is Manufacturing?
This Washington mountain is the most heavily glaciated peak in the contiguous United States.
What is Mount Rainier?
This orbit, approximately 22,236 miles above Earth, allows a satellite to match Earth's rotation.
What is geostationary orbit (GEO)?
According to Stoke's website, full reusability aims to reduce the cost to orbit by approximately this factor.
What is 20x?
PSD
What is "Power Spectral Density"?
This was the total number of interns we had this summer.
Washington is home to five volcanoes that are part of the Cascade Range. Name any three.
What are Mount Rainier, Mount St. Helens, Mount Adams, Mount Baker, and Glacier Peak?
This was the first privately developed spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station.
What is Crew Dragon?