Grossmont College student Thong Vo earned a spot as one of Base 11’s paid fellows at UCI’s Samueli School of Engineering this summer. He lived on campus, received mentorship from an engineering grad student, and worked on a team with other community college students...

By Alina Rai, Base 11 Fellow As a woman, you may find yourself in a tough position being among a relatively small number of women pursuing a STEM degree. Women earned only 19.3% of bachelor’s degrees in engineering in 2013, according to the National Science Board --...

This summer, two Orange Coast College students participated in Base 11's fellowship program. Fakhirah Mohd Khairuddin spent two months at UC Irvine's Samueli School of Engineering, working on a team designing and building a working drone, under the guidance of a...

This summer, two East Los Angeles College students participated in Base 11's fellowship program. Francisco Gomez and Philip Chan spent the summer at the University of Southern California's Viterbi School of Engineering, where they conducted hands-on research. Under...

Hugo Villafana spent most of his life in the poor farming community of El Tepamal, in the Guanajuato state of Mexico. Although he grew up far away from the nearest airport, and without access to computers or the internet, he was fascinated by the rockets and...