With $1 Million Gift, UCI Aims to Become First University to Launch Rocket into Space (IMAGE)

University of California - Irvine

With $1 Million Gift, UCI Aims to Become First University to Launch Rocket into Space

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As Base 11 fellows, community college students spent eight weeks last summer at UCI's Henry Samueli School of Engineering learning how to design and build drones. A $1 million gift from the nonprofit will fund a new rocketry lab at the school.

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Jessica Mendoza

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