The Weiss School STEM Center of Excellence created the Weiss CubeSat Development Team (WCDT) in the Fall of 2015 with the stated purpose of incrementally accomplishing numerous intermediate goals and to fly a Low Earth Orbit (LEO) 1U CubeSat within three years. The WeissSat-1 mission is the culmination of a multi-year process of educating gifted middle school students in three specific threads: Aerospace, Biotechnology, and Mission Management/Planning.