In May, instead of marching at his commencement ceremony, Zachary Gaines (’23, aerospace engineering) and four fellow students were in a field outside Sioux Falls, South Dakota, watching a 100-foot-tall high-altitude balloon fill with helium. Attached to it was an…
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Bronco Ember, a miniature satellite designed by students to detect nascent wildfires, passed its final inspection in the NASA TechLeap Challenge and is scheduled for a suborbital flight test at the end of June. The team has also earned $500,000…
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After spending most of 2020 operating remotely, Cal Poly Pomona had an awakening of sorts in 2021, with more people, events and activities returning to campus. The Classes of 2020 and 2021 were able to physically cross the Commencement stage…
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Cristian Rodriguez, a graduate student in mechanical engineering, was always interested in astronomy but seeing Saturn through his telescope set his future course. Michael Pham, an aerospace engineering ‘23, was vacationing in Florida when he was about 8 and was…
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