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Laura Gonzalez felt her heart sink as she waited for her team’s rocket to deploy a parachute during last year’s NASA First Nations Launch competition. The parachute never appeared.

Earlier this year, MIT’s First Nations Launch team participated in the 2023 First Nations Launch, an international NASA-Artemis Student Challenge hosted by the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium that focuses on Indigenous representation and science in

Doya, MIT's First Nations Launch team, placed second at the 2023 First Nations Launch contest. Now the team is gearing up for a 2024 launch.

Faculty-led initiatives at Queen’s work to support Indigenous students, but the university has yet to achieve Indigenization in its STEM programs.

Nicole McGaa combined Indigenous knowledge with engineering to build a rocket for the First Nations Launch competition. Nicole McGaa combined Indigenous knowledge with engineering to build a rocket for the First Nations Launch competition.

The CU Trailblazers are Native students in the College of Engineering and Applied Science who, over the course of nine months, built and launched an eight-foot high-powered rocket for the First Nations Launch competition. They bonded over the project and the intertribal community they fostered as they became rocketry experts.

Three students enrolled in the Earth and Planetary Exploration Technology certificate have contributed to space exploration through physics and engineering.

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