San Fernando Valley Colleges Awarded NASA Grant to Host MESA Robotics Competition

Los Angeles Pierce College, Mission College and Valley College have been awarded a $50,000 planning prize from NASA’s Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) to develop a new robotics competition for community college students in the San Fernando Valley.

“I’m so excited to lead this joint effort between LA Mission, Valley and Pierce colleges. Our collaboration is one of only nine community college projects in the nation selected by NASA this year to win this prize,” said Travis Orloff, Ph.D., department chair of Physics and Planetary Science at Pierce College and principal investigator for the project. 

“We’ve never before had the opportunity to get so many students involved with a NASA project all at the same time. This one-of-a-kind experience has the ability to forever change their lives.”

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