Base 11 and Sigma Pi Phi Announce $1.5 Million Grant to Support Rocketry at an HBCU
Grant Aims to Improve Diversity in Aerospace Talent Pipeline Cincinnati, OH, June 25, 2018 -- The nonprofit Base 11 has received a $1.5 million gift to improve diversity in the aerospace talent pipeline. With the money, Base 11 will fund a grant to one Historically...
Base 11 Launches the $1M Space Challenge
By Jade Kim, Operations Administrator at Base 11 More than 120 attendees from a dozen schools and 26 companies, all united for one reason: to officially launch the $1m+ Base 11 Space Challenge. The event was held on Wednesday, June 6, 2018 at Tomorrow's Aeronautical...
Base 11 Newsletter – June 2018
Leland Melvin headlines Base 11 Space Challenge announcement | STEMconnector's State of STEM report | New Victory Circle winners | New Base 11 ecosystems video
Base 11 Announces $1million+ Student Space Challenge
COMPTON, CALIF. (June 6, 2018) -- Leaders in aerospace, government, and academia joined students from around the U.S. and Canada today to announce the largest-ever student space competition: the Base 11 Space Challenge. Created to provide hands-on skills training and...
Deloitte’s Tonie Leatherberry Joins Nonprofit Base 11’s Corporate Board
By Landon Taylor, CEO of Base 11 Base 11’s success and rapid growth stems from the world-class leaders of industry, academia, and philanthropy who provide an integrated perspective on how to best achieve our mission. Thanks to these visionary leaders, Base 11 is able...
High School Students Learn to Build Robots
By Jade Kim, Operations Administrator at Base 11 High school juniors from the Samueli Academy recently took part in the Arduino Tech Sandbox Challenge Saturday Academy, where they spent three Saturdays at the Base 11 Innovation Center in Orange County, California,...
Base 11 Newsletter – May 2018
Tonie Leatherberry joins board | Base 11 invests in aerospace | Students build robots on Saturday Academy | Fieldtrip to Virgin Galactic leaves students in awe |
Virgin Galactic Field Trip Leaves Students in Awe
By Jade Kim, Operations Administrator at Base 11 Engineering students from Samueli High School in Santa Ana, CA were recently given one of the most eye-opening field trips of their academic lives: a tour of the Virgin Galactic hangar. "My goal is to become a...
Base 11 Newsletter – April 2018
Make a difference | NPR Features the Autonomous Systems Engineering Academy | Academic Year-round applications open | New LinkedIn Group for Victory Circle Members