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Alumni Spotlight - John Raquet

Staff Reports | Friday, June 23, 2017

John Raquet, Class of 1985

Those who went to school with John during his years at Lutheran West, remeber him as either having a basketball in his hands or a stack of books. He seemed to excel at anything he put his mind to achieve, all the while remaining very humble. After graduating as the valedictorian he pursued a college career at the U.S. Air Force Academy and received a B.S. in astronautical engineering. While at MIT, John "developed an innovative, fuel-efficient, collision-avoidance and docking system for the Space Shuttle." Read more about his chance to be a flight test engineer, the part he played in testing the innovative GPS and his career as Director of the Autonomy and Navigation Technology Center (ANT) at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) located on Wright Patterson AFB.

Josh Lyons

Medical School Student - University of Cincinnati; Alum 2007

...the material I was studying in my college classes was identical to the material covered in my high school classes! It put me ahead of the game...