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AVC student selected as NASA Aerospace Scholar

by The AV Times Staff • April 3, 2015

Victoria Jenne (Contributed photo)
Victoria Jenne (Contributed photo)

LANCASTER – Victoria Jenne of Antelope Valley College will travel to NASA’s Johnson Space Center this spring to participate in the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars project (NCAS).

Jenne is one of 240 community college students from across the country selected for the coveted project.

The five-week scholars program culminates with a three-day on-site event at Armstrong Flight Research Center and offers students the opportunity to interact with NASA engineers and others as they learn more about careers in science and engineering.

While at NASA, students form teams and establish fictional companies interested in Mars exploration. Each team is responsible for developing and testing a prototype rover, forming a company infrastructure, managing a budget, and developing communications and outreach.

The on-site experience at NASA includes a tour of facilities and briefings by NASA subject matter experts.

NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars is a project funded in part by the Minority University Research and Education Program, or MUREP, which is committed to the recruitment of underrepresented and underserved students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) to sustain a diverse workforce.

With this project, NASA continues the agency’s tradition of investing in the nation’s educational programs. It is directly tied to the agency’s major education goal of attracting and retaining students in STEM disciplines critical to NASA’s future missions, which include missions to Mars and beyond.

For more information on the NASA’s Community College Aerospace Scholars project, visit:http://ncas.aerospacescholars.org/.

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[Information via news release from Antelope Valley College.]

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2 comments for "AVC student selected as NASA Aerospace Scholar"

  1. daniel says

    April 6, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    Congratulations Victoria. That’s a nice achievement.

  2. Steven says

    April 3, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    I would marry her

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