Campus Technology
UC Irvine Races to Launch Space-Bound Rocket. Read more.
Self-Advocacy Helps Community College Student Land UCI Internship
Tamara Mmbuka, a student at Santa Monica College, was selected for a Base 11 academic-year internship at UC Irvine. She and other community college students from across Southern California visited UCI one Saturday a month throughout the school year. They tried out...
Base 11 to Join National Summit to Share Short-term Solutions to STEM Talent Development Strategies
Washington, D.C., April 26, 2017 – Base 11 will join the nation’s top employers and industry thought leaders at the Global STEM Talent Summit Initiative (GSTS) on April 27-28, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Its mission is to create solutions for developing the next...
KIIS FM
Non-profit's donation will help fund a student-built rocket at UC Irvine. Read more.
MyNewsLA.com
It’s rocket science for UCI! $1 million gift targets women, minorities for engineering leadership. Read more.
Orange County Business Journal
UCI gets $1M for rocketry. Read more.
UCI Aims to Become First University to Launch Rocket into Space
Irvine, Calif., April 24, 2017 — University of California, Irvine students will “shoot for the moon” thanks to a $1 million gift from Base 11, a nonprofit STEM workforce development and entrepreneur accelerator. The “Moonshot Initiative” will establish a rocketry...
Community College Students Experience STEM University Program at Caltech
A group of community college students is gathered around a refrigerator-sized machine, trying on metal rings and passing around finely detailed metal figurines that were created a few micrometers at a time, as the machine pointed a laser onto a powdery material. The...
‘Engineering is the Right Choice for Me’
By Will O'Connell, Base 11 Fellow Over the summer, I successfully completed a fellowship through Base 11 at the University of California, Irvine. The program that I was selected for was the Autonomous Systems Engineering Academy at The Henry Samueli School of...