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Engineering students work with local high school educators to develop experiments to launch to 85,000 feet. Sponsored by the California Space Grant Consortium. Click here to view team website.

CaSGC is pleased to have provided support to the Bourns Space Science and Engineering Day at UC Riverside this past weekend. This was an event designed to inspire K-12 students in the fields of science and engineering.

The California Space Grant Consortium is proud to have sponsored the UCSD Microgravity Project. A team of engineering undergraduates performed tests in a microgravity environment to research behavior streams of fluids in space.

The California Space Grant is pleased to announce the following UCSD Graduate Student Fellows for the 2009-2010 fiscal year:

• Brett Nadler, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering; Faculty Advisors: Prof. Thomas Bewley (MAE) and Prof. Joseph Ford (ECE)
• Cameron Nowzari,

Several Sacramento State students have had the opportunity to intern at NASA centers all across the nation.

Click the link to read the full story:
http://media.www.statehornet.com/media/storage/paper1146/news/2009/11/12/News/Students.Aim.For.Stars-3828529.shtml

Saturday’s high altitude balloon launch took place near the southern tip of the Salton Sea near the Salton Sea National Wildlife Refuge. (more…)

We have been funding two of our MAE students, Casey Barrett and David Hernandez, to work on aerospace projects this summer, including an interdisciplinary archeological balloon flight project with the Department of Anthropology (Professor Thomas Levy),

CaSGC Campus Director for the University of California, Los Angeles, Professor Christopher Russell, is the Principal Investigator for the Dawn Mission to the asteroids Vesta and Ceres.

Click here to read about California Space Grant Consortium projects in the STEM fields (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) at our California affiliate campuses.

Elena S. Amador is the California Student Ambassador for the 2009 International Year of Astronomy. The International Year of Astronomy is a global program that aims to bring astronomy and all space sciences to a wider audience.