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Base 11 Newsletter – March 2018
High school students build drones | Visit to Virgin Galactic inspires | #AskaSTEMpro | Academic-year internship applications coming soon | 2018 Annual Experience & Technifair Opportunity
Cristo Rey Philadelphia Students on Building Drones
Cristo Rey Philadelphia 12th graders recently shared a video update of their drone-building engineering project. For a few years, community college students have been building drones over the summer through Base 11's fellowship program at UCI. But this is a first for...
Visit to Virgin Galactic Inspires Aspiring Engineers
Students from Segerstrom High School in Santa Ana recently had the experience of a lifetime: touring Virgin Galactic’s facilities and hangar, where the White Knight Two and SpaceShip Two are being built. “From the flight sim to watching the making of the new...
Innovation Centers: The 21st century solution to developing STEM talent
By Landon Taylor, CEO of Base 11 A recent study by Burning Glass found that there are more than 2 million entry-level STEM job openings, but just 1 million recent STEM graduates who could potentially fill them. This huge gap between available STEM jobs and qualified...
#AskASTEMPro featuring Noramay Cadena: Engineer, entrepreneur, and all-around SHEro
Noramay Cadena, a mechanical engineer and entrepreneur fitted with three MIT degrees, is a trailblazer in both the corporate and community sectors on a national scale. She inspires future generations of STEM innovators at the Latinas in STEM Foundation, an...
Base 11 Newsletter — January 2018
Innovation Centers: The 21st century solution to developing STEM talent | 3 ways building drones changed the way I teach | Last call for 2018 summer fellowships | America’s $190M Seed Fund | Noramay Cadena: STEM Shero
America’s $190M Seed Fund: Perhaps one of the best kept secrets
By Landon Taylor, CEO of Base 11 Did you know that there is a program that helps startups and small businesses from across the country transform their innovative ideas into commercialized products and services? The National Science Foundation (NSF) offers such a...
3 Ways Building Drones Changed the Way I Teach (As Told in Star Wars Quotes)
By Eva Porter After 17 years of teaching, I was asked by my principal at Cristo Rey Philadelphia to teach a project-based engineering class to our 12th graders. And not only was I going to teach engineering, I was going to teach them how to build drones. Many things...