FY 2019 Year 5 Extension Annual Performance Document Template

CO_FY19_Year 5Ext_APD Space Grant Consortium Lead Institution: Chris Koehler, Director 303/492.3141 spacegrant.colorado.edu Grant Number: NNX15AK04H

A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION The National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program consists of 52 state-based, university-led Space Grant Consortia in each of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Annually, each consortium receives funds to develop and implement student fellowships and scholarships programs; interdisciplinary space- related research infrastructure, education, and public service programs; and cooperative initiatives with industry, research laboratories, and state, local, and other governments. Space Grant operates at the intersection of NASA’s interest as implemented by alignment with the Mission Directorates and the state’s interests. Although it is primarily a higher education program, Space Grant programs encompass the entire length of the education pipeline, including elementary/secondary and informal education. The Colorado Space Grant Consortium is a Designated Consortium funded at a level of $760,000 for fiscal year 2019.

A. PROGRAM GOALS

• Population of students engaged in COSGC hands-on programs (awardees and non-awardees) will be at least 40% women and 24% from ethnic minority populations underrepresented in STEM fields. • Maintain student hands-on programs at all 8 COSGC Minority Serving Institutions and engaged at least 60 students on MSI campuses. • 30% of COSGC NASA funds will be awarded directly to students. • Fund at least 149 awards to support students working on hands-on projects. • Facilitate the RockOn Workshop and RockSat-C and –X programs in collaboration with NASA Wallops Flight Facility. • Continue to facilitate statewide activities DemoSat (balloon payloads), Robotics Challenge (autonomous rovers), and Undergraduate Space Research Symposium. • Engage at least 142 non-award participants in Higher Education (HE) hands-on projects. • Every COSGC higher education affiliate will facilitate at least 1 HE hands-on student project. • At least 11 affiliates will facilitate 2 HE hands-on student projects. • At least 3 affiliates will facilitate 3 or more HE student projects. • Facilitate 1 low-Earth orbiting satellite project. • Continue internship collaborations with Lockheed Martin and Digital Globe. • At least 3 affiliates will facilitate Research Infrastructure (RI) projects on their home campuses. • At least 30 students will be engaged in RI projects. • Provide teacher training for at least 37 teachers (Pre-college).

B. PROGRAM/PROJECT BENEFITS TO PROGRAM AREAS

The team was 1 of 8 teams from across the country selected to build a sample lunar payload in the NASA Big Idea Challenge.

A team of 8 students worked with researchers from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) & National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) supporting the development, build, and programming of an Antarctic research “station” – including the design of an underwater camera system, power system, and development of system software. The CIRES team has successfully deployed the research station on an Antarctic glacier and confirmed that student tools are fully functional.

C. PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS

a) NASA Internships, Fellowships, and Scholarships: • 274 students who were engaged in hands-on projects were awarded scholarships [Goal – 149] • Awardees were 37% women and 30% underrepresented [Goal 40% & 24%] • Approximately 40% of total NASA funds were awarded directly to students. [Goal 30%] Additional non-federal cost match was also used to support additional student awards.

b) Higher Education Projects: • Student projects were facilitated at all 8 COSGC Minority Serving Institutions [Goal – 8]. • 136 students were engaged at the above-mentioned MSIs [Goal – 60] • COSGC facilitated the RockOn Workshop and RockSat-C and –X programs in collaborations with NASA Wallops Flight Facility. • Engaged 380 non-awardee students in Higher Education (HE) hands-on projects and courses [Goal – 120]. • ALL COSGC academic affiliates facilitated at least 1 HE hands-on project. [Goal – ALL]. • 5 affiliates facilitated 2 HE hands-on projects [Goal – 11]: o Aims CC (Aims) o Front Range CC (FRCC) o Pikes Peak CC (PPCC) o CC of Denver (CCD) o Trinidad State Junior College (TSJC) • 13 affiliates facilitated 3 or more HE hands-on projects [Goal – 3]: o Arapahoe CC (ACC) o (ASU) o CC of Aurora (CCA) o (CMU) o Colorado School of Mines (CSM) o Colorado State University (CSU) o Colorado State University – Pueblo (CSU-Pueblo) o (FLC) o Pueblo CC (PCC) o Red Rocks CC (RRCC) o University of Colorado Boulder (CU) o University of Northern Colorado (UNC) o Western Colorado University (WCU) Higher Education (HE) Projects included: • Short- and long-duration high altitude scientific balloon payloads • Autonomous robotics • Miscellaneous robotics projects • Sounding Rocket Payloads • Undergraduate Laboratory Research • Senior Design Teams • Training Workshops • Theoretical Physics Projects • Balloon Payload Courses • Robotics Courses • Participation in NASA & Industry sponsored competitions • High powered rocketry projects • Mars Agriculture projects • Sabatier Reactor • Astronomical Observatory Research & Other Telescope projects • Antarctic Research • Wearable Technology projects • High Powered Rocketry • Advanced & Additive Manufacturing • Space suit simulator

c) Research Infrastructure Projects: • 3 COSGC campuses facilitated RI projects engaging 46 students [Goal – 3 campuses; 30 students] – CU, CSM, and University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) • Continued internship collaborations with Lockheed Martin and Digital Globe/MAXAR.

RI projects included: • Tethered CubeSat (collaboration with NASA Marshall) - UCCS • Lunar Mining (CSM) • Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone – Worldwide lunar science mission (CU) • Internships at Lockheed Martin & Digital Globe/MAXAR

d) Precollege Projects: • 2 full-day professional development courses were held for in-service teachers as part of the Space Foundation’s Space Across the Curriculum program, engaging 35 teachers. [Goal 37 teachers]

e) Informal Education Projects: 5 COSGC affiliate facilitated ad-hoc activities for their surrounding communities. All activities included post-secondary COSGC students facilitating activities for younger students and the general public. Activities included: • ASU - facilitated activities in the STEAMShop (Community Makerspace) • CCD – Facilitated Rocket Day activities for local elementary school • CSU-Pueblo: Girl Scout STEM Day • CMU - Math Extravaganza: day-long mathematics challenges • CU – Facility tours, Lego design challenges, workshops for student societies [Goal: No goal set because of the ad-hoc nature of these endeavors.]

D. MILESTONES a. Include a summary of your proposed milestones, and describe the extent to which each milestone has been met. If there have been significant deviations from your proposed milestones that will affect your initial period of performance, please provide a justification for those deviations.

• Higher Education & Research Infrastructure Student Projects and the Student Awards the support these projects: Milestone in process – expect extension required through summer 2020 to ensure students complete engineering process with time for data analysis that will run about 3-5 months past expected end date. For the most part, beginner level projects were completed per proposed milestones. Year-long and advanced projects are a bit off-schedule because of late funding (cost match & other federal support), industry partner scheduling, launch slips, and student turnover. The no-cost extension request will be through December 2020 to provide a few months for affiliate programs to pay outstanding invoices and close their subcontracts. • Transfer Student Scholarships – all milestones met. Awarded August 2019. • How-to Workshops – all milestones met. Workshops facilitated June 2019 (sounding rocket payload) September 2019 (robotics), January 2020 (balloon payload & wearable technology), various student society workshops ( September 2019 – January 2020). • High Altitude Balloon Launches – all milestones met. Launches took place in July 2019, November 2019. A final launch will take place on April 4, 2019. Please note: while the April launch will take place on-time, the non-profit launch provider typically invoices for consumables 30 – 60 days following launch. This will push the invoicing into the “no-cost extension” period. • Colorado Robotics Challenge – all planning milestones and program reviews have taken place on-time. The actual challenge is scheduled to take place Friday & Saturday, April 10- 11. The activity will be completed within the current period of performance. Please note: while the activity will take place per milestone timeline, clearing of costs for April event will run at least 1 month into the “no cost extention” period (May/June). • Teacher Workshops – One workshop completed in November 2019. The second workshop is schedule for March 2020. Milestones will be completed as planned. • Undergraduate Space Research Symposium – All planning and content updates completed per milestone estimate. Actual event will take place on Saturday, April 18, 2020. Expected that clearing all expenses for the event will run into the following month (May – no-cost extension period). • COSGC Affiliate Reporting – all milestones met. Affiliates will submit final reports at the end of the no-cost extension period for project close-out. In addition, OEPM data for continuing activities will be submitted in January 2021 as needed. • Newsletter Published – All planning and content building on track. Actual 2020 newsletter will be published by the end of March 2020, per proposed milestone. • Annual Member Meeting – All milestones met. 2019 meeting held September 20 – 21 on the Western Colorado University campus in Gunnison, CO. • Required HQ “Reverse” Site Visit – All milestones met. Participated in the Mega PI meeting in August 2019 in Cleveland, OH. • OEPM Data Entry – All milestones met. OEPM data submitted in January 2020 along with required Student Data Tables. • APD Submitted – All milestones met. APD submitted by due-date, February 29, 2020.

b. If there have been significant deviations from your proposed milestones that will affect your initial period of, please provide a revised list of milestones:

Higher Education & Research Infrastructure Student Projects and the Student Awards that support these projects: Proposed end date was April 30, 2020. These milestones are currently in process. It is expected that projects will end by September 30, 2020 to ensure students complete engineering design work on missions with time for data analysis that will run about 3 - 5 months past expected end date.

E. PROGRAM CONTRIBUTIONS TO NASA EDUCATION PERFORMANCE GOALS

Diversity: Describe the diversity of institutions, faculty, and student participants

The Colorado 21 member consortium includes:

o 8 Minority Serving Institutions (MSI) . 7 Hispanic Serving Institutions . 3 American Indian & Alaskan Native Serving Institutions o 10 two-year colleges o 10 four-year institutions: . 1 four-year baccalaureate college . 4 four-year baccalaureate through masters institutions . 5 universities through PhD o 1 non-profit organization

• 102 of 274 significant awards were to women (37%). • 81 of 274 significant awards were to minority students underrepresented in STEM disciplines (30%). • 269 of 274 awards were to undergraduate students (98%). • Of the 380 students participating in projects who did not receive awards: o 138 were women (36%). o 84 were students from ethnic minority populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines (22%). • Of the 18 students who participated in Higher Education projects and received small awards: o 8 were women (44%) o 1 was a student from an ethnic minority population underrepresented in STEM disciplines (6%). • The overall COSGC population of 672 engaged students included: o 248 women (37%) o 166 students from ethnic minority populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines (25%) • 78 faculty members mentor projects and teach courses, including: o 31 women (40%) o 3 from ethnic minority populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines (4%)

• Minority Serving Institution Collaborations:

Authentic hands-on student projects were facilitated at all COSGC MSIs, including: • Aims: Mars Agriculture project, Wearable Technology project • ASU: Autonomous Robots, Human Space Exploration – Using recycled materials to create tools, Using 3D printing to create water filters, hosts the statewide Colorado Robotics Challenge activities. • CCD: High altitude balloon payload, Autonomous robot • CSU-Pueblo: Autonomous robots, Wearable Technology project, Micro-G NEXT Team, Sabatier Reactor research. • FLC: Long-duration high altitude balloon payload, short-duration high altitude balloon payload, First Nations Launch Competition, Astronomical Observatory projects, Hands-on projects for 1st-year student experience class. • PCC: 2 high altitude balloon payloads, Autonomous robots, Wearable Technology Project, Hosted statewide Wearable Technology workshop. • PPCC: 2 high altitude balloon payloads. • TSJC: Autonomous Robots, High altitude balloon payload, and initial planning (building collaborations) for implementing a Wearable Technology program in the next period of performance.

In addition, all 8 MSIs participated in the 2019 COSGC Annual Member Meeting.

• Office of Education Annual Performance Indicators (APIs):

 API 3.3.3: STEM 19-1: 274 significant, direct student awards [37% to women and 30% to underrepresented minority students]  API 3.3.5: STEM 19-5: 14 paper presentations

F. IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN THE PAST YEAR

At the September 2019 annual meeting, the COSGC membership voted to accept Front Range Community College as a full affiliate institution. This addition of a new community college campus brought our number of 2-yr institutions to 10, which is now equal to the 4-year institutions involved in the consortium. As a result of the dynamic program established by FRCC faculty, the FRCC program has garnered attention and interest from 2 other FRCC campuses. Also, the team has already made strong collaborations with their local makerspace which is providing equipment, facilities, and mentors for student project teams.

The ideal project for the wearable technology how-to workshop was developed following 2 prototypes explored over the past two years that were not quite the right fit to COSGC’s workshop approach. The final project was facilitated in the January 2020 workshop and received high praise. COSGC leadership will now begin adding to the initial glove project to build a full multi-day wearable technology workshop experience.

The student team developing a high altitude balloon payload in collaboration with mentors from Edge of Space Sciences (COSGC’s launch provider) had 4 successful flights of a payload demonstrating ADS-B transponder use during high altitude balloon flights. It was determined that the transponder was not sufficient for altitudes over 18 kilometers. The team has integrated a new transponder and will complete 3 additional flights with the new configuration in the rest of the period of performance. This technology is important for the future of the statewide COSGC high altitude balloon payload program. G. CURRENT AND PROJECTED CHALLENGES

As programs at COSGC institutions continue to expand and engage more students additional funding is needed to enable programs to continue to improve and engagea wider population of Colorado post- secondary students. At the same time, more COSGC institutions have begun to charge indirect costs to awards, which means our affiliate institutions are doing more with less. COSGC leadership continues to work with Advisory Board members and state legislators to secure stable funding from industry partners or the state. Affiliates have also begun to do more active fundraising to bring in more funding to support programs. Along the same vein, as programs grow workspace on campuses is often scarce. Affiliates have become very creative at finding workspace for student projects and continue to work with their campus leaders at identifying locations for students to work and store their project hardware.

All COSGC institutions continue to actively recruit students from populations underrepresented in STEM disciplines. Nevertheless, COSGC continues to be just below our goal for women students engaged in COSGC projects. A few affiliates have had great successes with their efforts. Often what has worked for a year or two seems to suddenly be less effective. Inclusive programming continues to be a major focus of face-to-face and virtual meetings, with those who experience successes sharing their approaches and lessons learned. In addition, all affiliates continue to build relationships with societies, programs, and organizations that engage with underrepresented students on their home campuses and statewide. All affiliate directors and associate faculty take the issue seriously and continue to actively work on recruiting an inclusive community of students in all projects – even though it continues to be challenging.

H. PROGRAM PARTNERS AND ROLE OF PARTNERS IN P ROJECT EXECUTION • Adams State University (ASU) (4-yr): Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI); Facilitates hands-on student programs and informal education activities, hosts the annual Colorado Robotics Challenge. • Aims Community College (AiCC) (2-yr) HSI; Facilitates hands-on student programs. • Arapahoe Community College (ArCC) (2-yr) Facilitates hands-on student programs. • Colorado Mesa University (CMU) (4-yr) Facilitates hands-on student programs and informal education activities. • Colorado School of Mines (CSM) (4-yr): Facilitates hands-on student programs. • Colorado State University (CSU) (4-yr): Facilitates hands-on student programs. • Colorado State University – Pueblo (CSU-Pueblo) (4-yr): HSI; Facilitates hands-on student programs. • Community College of Aurora (CCA) (2-yr) Facilitates hands-on student programs. • Community College of Denver (CCD) (2-yr) HSI; Facilitates hands-on student programs and informal education activities. • Front Range Community College (FRCC) (2-yr); Facilitates hands-on student programs. • Fort Lewis College (FLC) (4-yr) American Indian & Alaskan Native Serving Institution (AIANSI); Facilitates hands-on student programs. • Otero Junior College (OJC) (2-yr) Facilitates hands-on student programs. • Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC) (2-yr) HSI & AANSI; Facilitates hands-on student programs. • (PCC) (2-yr) HSI; Facilitates hands-on student programs and informal education activities, hosts the annual statewide Wearable Technology how-to workshop. • Red Rocks Community College (RRCC) (2-yr) Facilitates hands-on student programs. • Space Foundation (non-profit organization) Facilitates professional development workshops for pre- and in-service teachers and provides access to Mars Yard for COSGC student projects. • Trinidad State Junior College (TSJC) (2-yr) HSI; Facilitates hands-on student programs and informal education activities. • University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) (4-yr) Facilitates hands-on student programs and informal education activities. [Lead Institution] • University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) (4-yr) Facilitates hands-on student programs. • University of Northern Colorado (UNC) (4-yr) Facilitates hands-on student programs. • Western Colorado University (WCU) (4-yr) Facilitates hands-on student programs.

COSGC programs are only possible through collaborations with industry; government labs; academic departments, programs, and labs; NASA centers; and non-profit & community organizations. These partners provide mentors, hardware donations, launch opportunities, funding, and/or testing facilities. The following is a list of partners that directly contributed to COSGC student projects this award period:

INDUSTRY PARTNERS: • Parallax, Inc. – Provides advisors, technical support, materials, and training for student projects and courses at Trinidad State Junior College (TSJC) • Lockheed Martin – Provides judges for the COSGC Undergraduate Space Research Symposium; provides guest lecturers for Gateway to Space and Pathway to Space courses at CU; Provides internships for COSGC students, provided mentors for the Colorado School of Mines (CSM) NASA Robotic Mining Competition team. • Analytical Graphics, Inc. – Site licenses for Satellite Toolkit software used by students at University Colorado, Boulder (CU) for satellite missions; Provides free workshops for students; Speaker at CU course; and mentors for CU space hardware projects. • SparkFun Electronics – Support of statewide robotics endeavors including access to hardware, mentors for projects statewide, and supplies for robotics workshops. • University of Colorado, Boulder (CU), Chancellor’s Office – partnering on development of the new campus wide, all-major Space Minor, part of the Chancellor’s Grand Challenge. • Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) – CU Space Grant is building the student payload that will fly on the PUNCH spacecraft in a mission funded by NASA to study the sun and its effects on space weather. The student team will work closely with PUNCH engineers and scientists through design, build, test, launch, and mission operation. • Tacuna Systems – Provided mentors and electronics for CSM student projects. • TransAstra Corp – provided advisor for the Optical Mining project team. • Peanuts Worldwide LLC – collaborated with curriculum designers at the Space Foundation to add officially licensed Snoopy curriculum to a Space Foundation teacher workshop. • Advanced Electronics – donated hardware in support of the CC of CO sounding rocket project • DigiKey Electronics – donated hardware in support of the CC of CO sounding rocket project • Intel – provided facilitator for soldering workshop at Adams State University (ASU) • Millennium Engineering & Integration Co – provided support for access and control of the Falcon telescope network for Fort Lewis College students. • uAvionix – provided hardware for a high altitude balloon payload project at CU. • Urban Sky – provided project idea, mentor, hardware, and testing facilities for a CU sub-orbital project. • Roccor – provided project idea, mentors, hardware, and funding for a CU sounding rocket payload mission. • Digital Globe/MAXAR – provides internships to COSGC students.

ACADEMIC PARTNERS: • Western Colorado University (WCU), Computer Science – Provides advisors and equipment for WCU student robotics projects. • Community College of Aurora (CCA), School of Professional Studies and Sciences – financial support for travel for the CCA RockSat team. • Colorado School of Mines (CSM) – faculty mentors from Engineering program for the Thermal Optical Mining project and NASA’s Big Idea Challenge proposals. • Front Range Community College (FRCC), Environmental Sciences Club – provided mentor for the FRCC balloon payload project. • Community College of Denver (CCD), Advanced Manufacturing Center – supports CCD student projects. • CU, Aerospace Engineering Department – Provides mentors for CU student satellite missions; collaborating on the management of the CU Space Minor (Dr. Steve Nerem). • Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) –provided content and lecturer for Pathway to Space Course (Dr. Gijs de Boer); provided funding for the Antarctic JANE mission at CU. • Integrated Teaching and Learning Laboratory, University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) – Provides machining, electronics, and software for CU student projects. • Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics –provide content and lecturers for Pathway to Space class; provided project idea and mentors for a student suborbital project at CU. • CU, College of Music – Dr. Benjamin Teitelbaum provided content and lecture for Pathway to Space class. • CU, Aerospace Engineering Department – provided project idea and mentor for an analog space suit student project at CU. • CU, BioServe – provided research opportunity for 2 CU students to work on microgravity biology faculty research project. • CU, Biology Department – provided mentor for a CU sub-orbital project. • CU, Office of Information Technology – collaborated on implementation of the Pathway to Space curriculum and support IT foundation for the CU Space Minor program. • Colorado State University (CSU), Biology – provided mentor and equipment for CSU student balloon payloads. • Pueblo Community College (PCC), President’s Leadership Program – provides collaboration opportunities to recruit student leaders for PCC projects. • PCC Learning Center – providing lab space and mentors to support PCC student projects. • Pikes Peak Community College (PPCC), Science Labs – provides advisors, testing equipment, lab space and procurement support for PPCC student projects; • Red Rocks Community College (RRCC), Biology – provides advisor for RRCC student projects; facilitates biology workshop to inform student high altitude balloon payload development (open to all COSGC students). • RRCC, Chemistry – provides advisor for RRCC student projects • RRCC, IDEA Lab – provides advisor and workspace for RRCC student projects • RRCC, Physics - provides advisor for RRCC student projects • Trinidad State Junior College (TSJC), Physics – provide mentor for the TSJC balloon payload project. • University of Northern Colorado (UNC), School of Sport and Exercise Science (SES) – Provided data for UNC student theoretical physics research. • Aims Community College (Aims), Physics – provided advisor for the UNC heliostat project. • UNC, Astronomy – providing structure and mentorship to UNC student teams working on theoretic physics projects. • Fort Lewis College (FLC), Physics and Engineering – provides lab space and mentors for FLC student projects. • Louisiana Space Grant – provided significant feedback during HASP payload development by FLC student team; facilitates the HASP launch providing sub-orbital flight for FLC payload. • Texas Tech University – in charge of weather station at Old Fort Lewis Observatory enabling FLC student observatory projects. • Wisconsin Space Grant – mentor for the FLC First Nations Launch team. • Western Colorado Community College – provided mentor for projects at Colorado Mesa University (CMU)

GOVERNMENT PARTNERS: • NASA’s Earth Science Technology Office – Provides mentors for the PolarCube CubeSat mission. • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory – Provide speakers in courses at University of Colorado at Boulder (CU) and judges for the Colorado Undergraduate Space Research Symposium. • NASA Johnson Space Center – Provided project idea and mentor for a CU wearable technology project. • NASA Wallops Flight Facility – provides facility, mentors, staff, and launch operations for the RockOn Workshop and RockSat-C and –X programs. • Great Sand Dunes National Park – provides location for the Colorado Robotics Challenge, including providing park rangers to speak at the event and provide security/support. • National Snow and Ice Data Center - Provided funding and mentors for the JANE Antarctic student project (CU). • National Weather Service – coordinated installation of weather station at Old Fort Lewis Observatory enabling FLC observatory projects. • United State Air Force Academy – project manager for the Falcon Telescope Network, collaborating with the observatory group at Fort Lewis College.

COMMUNITY / NON-PROFIT PARTNERS: • Gunnison Valley Observatory – Provides mentorship for Western Colorado University (WCU) observing projects. • Earl Nesbitt, Community Supporter – Provides technical support and mentorship for TSJC robotics and balloon payload projects. • Edge of Space Sciences – provides launches for the COSGC balloon payload program (non-profit organization only charges the cost of consumables for each launch). Also provides mentors for balloon payload projects. • Eureka! Math and Science Center – Opportunities for Colorado Mesa University (CMU) students to develop activities and engage with the wider community. • Grand Junction School District 51, Mathematics Engineering and Science Achievement (MESA), Heidi Ragsdale – provides opportunities for CMU faculty and students to engage with young students through robotics activities. • Old Fort Lewis – Maintains road to observatory and provides access for educational projects, enabling Fort Lewis College (FLC) student observatory projects. • Durango Fire and Rescue – mentors and launch support for FLC student rocket projects. • 4 Corners Rocketry Associate - mentors and launch support for FLC student rocket projects. • COSGC Alumni – provide financial donations; serve as judges for the Annual Undergraduate Space Research Symposium; act as mentors for student projects at many COSGC institutions; advocate for the COSGC program at their companies (matching donations and mentors). • Mercury Café – hosted a fund raiser for the CC of CO sounding rocket project team (for ACC, RRCC, and CCA). • Longmont TinkerMill – local makerspace awarded free semester memberships to students working on the Front Range Community College autonomous robot project, providing free 24/7 access to equipment and facility and mentors. • DiTomaso Farms – provided seeds and mentors for the balloon payload team at Pueblo Community College (PCC) • Campbell’s Flowers and Greehouses – provided mentors for the PCC balloon payload team. • Community member, Kristy Rogers – local volunteer working with Trinidad State Junior College (TSJC) affiliate director to create a new wearable technology project on the TSJC campus.