Base 11 students attending partner community colleges are eligible for summer and year-round intern and fellowship programs with our world-class institutional partners. • Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Base 11 students receive hands-on training, education and mentorship with access to the Museum’s collections, facilities, and expertise in aeronautics and aerospace. Specifically, through this 10-week paid internship with the National Air and Space Museum Restoration Internship Program, participating students work with industry-leading preservation experts to manage and conduct research on historic artifacts. • Engineering Systems Academy at the University of California, Irvine: Base 11 students learn the basics of hands-on engineering and design processes. Students participate in an eight-week paid internship as they learn the fundamental knowledge in Aerospace design, Computer Aided Design, 3-D printing, basic electronics, and fabrication techniques culminating in the construction of a fully operational drone. • Aerospace Mentorship Program for STEM Students at Caltech: This 10-week paid summer internship program enables Base 11 students to conduct world class research under the guidance of graduate students in the Aerospace Department. Base 11 students experience the process of research as a creative intellectual activity as part of the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech.

This semester-long course on STEM entrepreneurship provides students with the training, mentorship and resources they need to catapult their study of science, technology, engineering and math into the creation of their own STEM related business enterprise. Program elements include:

• Giving students direct access to a MIT originated Fab Lab which enables them to innovate and manufacture almost anything.

• Offering students who complete the 16-week course the opportunity to compete in teams in pitch competitions.

Base 11 Innovation Centers, featuring an MIT-originated Fab Lab, are facilities that enable hands-on, project based learning designed to empower students with the STEM 2.0 skills that are most in-demand by industry. These state-of-the-art facilities feature equipment that allows students to design and build almost anything they can imagine. Equipment includes: • 3D printers • Computer-controlled laser cutter • Large computer-operated milling machine • Signcutter • Precision milling machine (micron resolution) • Vinyl cutters • Programming stations • Testing stations

The Base 11 Space Challenge is a $1 million+ prize for a student-led university team to design, build, and launch a liquid-propelled, single-stage rocket to an altitude of 100 kilometers (the Karman Line) by December 30, 2021. Annual competitions and prizes mark milestone achievements in the process including design of the liquid-fuel rocket, static testing of the engine, and smaller pop-up innovation challenges to be announced. The biggest purse, which is fully funded, is the $1 million prize for launching the rocket to the edge of space. The mission behind the Base 11 Space Challenge is to dramatically increase the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) talent in the United States with greater representation and inclusion of women and minorities, while empowering the future workforce with the education and skill-training necessary for jobs in the aerospace and related industries.

The Autonomous Systems Engineering Academy is hands-on, project based learning program in which students define, build and test a series of mini projects focused on different aspects of engineering, from basic electronics to computer-aided design. The culmination of the mini projects is a fully operational unmanned aerial vehicle, or drone. ASEA began as highly successful freshman course at the Samueli School of Engineering at University of California, Irvine. Base 11 then collaborated with UCI to adapt the course into an intensive summer program for community college students, and later into a high school curriculum that was piloted in Philadelphia, thanks to a grant from the Deloitte Foundation. In 2018, through funding from the Dassault Systemes US Foundation, the program was adapted into a semester-long community college course comprised of 200 hours of lecture, lab and homework. The Base 11 plans to implement the course at more than six community colleges in California and Washington in 2019.

Base 11 convenes, facilitates and collorates with disparate partners that have a desire to work together, but have not been able to coalesce in an impactful way. Base 11 fosters thriving STEM ecosystems, which bring together local industry, academia and philanthropy to accelerate the STEM pipeline from schools into the workforce. By forging partnerships with high schools, community colleges, university and community-based organizations and companies, Base 11 propels high potential, low-resource students on a STEM pathway. Program offerings are customized for each ecosystem, but include hands-on, project-based learning opportunities that the students would not have otherwise.