{"id":5,"date":"2015-05-08T00:00:01","date_gmt":"2015-05-08T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/blog\/?page_id=5"},"modified":"2025-04-01T10:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T17:00:07","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><strong>Welcome to the California Space Grant Consortium (CaSGC)\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><!--xfnpage--><\/p>\n<p>The California Space Grant Consortium (CaSGC) is California\u2019s implementation arm of NASA\u2019s National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. It meets program objectives through a wide variety of aerospace-related activities that target pre-college to university level education and learning, research, workforce development, and public outreach. The CaSGC is comprised of colleges, universities, businesses, and other private and public sector institutions \u2013 all working to further aerospace education and career training through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Supporting student scholarships, fellowships, and traineeships for aerospace-related education;<\/li>\n<li>Providing support to faculty and students to develop career skills in aerospace-related fields (science, engineering, business, and education);<\/li>\n<li>Offering experiential learning opportunities aligned with NASA Mission Directorates (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/\">http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Stimulating public interest in aerospace-related disciplines and lifelong learning through community partnerships, thus increasing public appreciation for the direct and indirect benefits of the U.S. space program<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the California Space Grant Consortium (CaSGC)\u00a0 The California Space Grant Consortium (CaSGC) is California\u2019s implementation arm of NASA\u2019s National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. It meets program objectives through a wide variety of aerospace-related activities that target pre-college to university level education and learning, research, workforce development, and public outreach. The CaSGC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8847,"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/8847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/casgc.ucsd.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}