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Students like Omar Costilla, Jesbaam Sanchez and Jedi Alindogan are students who’ve been through the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars program. (Photo Illustration by Bram Martinez)

ARC Students share their experiences with NCAS

Bram Martinez • December 11, 2019

Earth seems big, but as time goes on, the places that humans can explore on their planet diminishes so there are only a few directions to go, down to the blackened depths of the ocean or up to the starry...

Jessica Shults, an astrobiology major at American River College, was part of the SSGX team. She hand-soldered components and designed logos for the project, which she wore as patches on her team jacket on Oct, 9,2018. (Photo by Ashley Hayes-Stone)

ARC team worked at NASA facility for ‘near space’ project

Jennah Booth • October 23, 2018

Space may be the final frontier, but American River College has gotten closer than most. On Sept. 4, a team from ARC’s Astronomy and Physics Club launched a payload into “near space” from in Ft....

A plaque dedicated to the memory of the “Challenger” space shuttle crew lies outside of the Engeneering and Physics department on April 3 at American River College. (Photo by Mack Ervin III)

Photo of the Day: April 3, 2018

Mack Ervin III • April 3, 2018

The Curiosity rover sitting in a shed NASAs Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA. A student from American River College was apart of a team that won a program for NASA to build a rover that would be successful on a mission to Mars. (Photo provided by Cecilie Thompson)

ARC student soars at NASA program

Jordan Schauberger • November 13, 2015

An American River College student gave a presentation last week on her three-day experience at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, CA. Cecilie Thompson, an electrical engineering...

American River College student Cecile Thompson speaks with student Nemi McCarter about the Engineering Club. Thompson was chosen to participate in the NASA onsite experience at the Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California where she will create a rover that must be able to function properly if placed on the surface of Mars. (Photo by Lena DoBynes)

MESA launches ARC students into NASA’s orbit

Lena DoBynes • October 23, 2015

Three American River College students will have the opportunity to participate in a three-day on-site experience at a NASA facility in California on Oct. 25. Biomedical engineering major Ralph Salazar,...

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