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DoD STARBASE Los Alamitos offers hands-on activities in CAD, robotics, chemistry, and geometry/physics, along with projects where students design and build model rockets. The program also includes a weather balloon project with USC and a Cardboard Regatta with Sunburst. During the course of five days, students are exposed to real concepts within chemistry, physics, robotics, and technology.
• Ages: 10–18 years old
• Schedule: During the course of five days, students are exposed to real concepts within chemistry, physics, robotics, and technology.
The mission of DoD STARBASE Los Alamitos is to advance youth education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through immersive, standards-aligned instruction, uniting credentialed teachers and professional engineers to deliver hands-on experiences that strengthen teamwork, leadership, and applied scientific skills, and to produce measurable improvements in STEM knowledge while fostering enthusiasm for lifelong learning and 21st century STEM careers. The program is a Department of Defense program that offers hands-on, minds-on experiential lessons and activities in science/technology, engineering/design, and mathematics aligned with NGSS standards, and uses pre and post-testing of students that results in significant and scalable improvements in math and science test scores of 5th graders. The STARBASE Advanced Program offers professional engineers with exemplary technical knowledge of engineering and rocketry in an after-school mentoring program for high school teams, including extra-curricular aerospace engineering and technical education to high school students in the greater Los Angeles area, participation in The American Rocketry Challenge (ARC), and training exercises that promote careers in science and technology.
DoD STARBASE Los Alamitos has participated in partnerships, events, and projects with the Army/Sunburst Academy, universities, and civic organizations such as Scouting, and currently has partnerships with JROTC, Army Research Lab, GEMS, USC Project Payload, Girl Scouts of Orange County, Anaheim School District, Huntington Beach School District, and Santa Ana School District. In The American Rocketry Challenge (ARC), an aerospace design and engineering event allowing students to design and build model rockets, teams from the program have qualified and gone to Washington, D.C. to compete in the National Rocketry Challenge on several occasions, winning awards for rocket design.
Last updated July 5, 2026.
• Ages: 10–18 years old
• Schedule: During the course of five days, students are exposed to real concepts within chemistry, physics, robotics, and technology.
The mission of DoD STARBASE Los Alamitos is to advance youth education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through immersive, standards-aligned instruction, uniting credentialed teachers and professional engineers to deliver hands-on experiences that strengthen teamwork, leadership, and applied scientific skills, and to produce measurable improvements in STEM knowledge while fostering enthusiasm for lifelong learning and 21st century STEM careers. The program is a Department of Defense program that offers hands-on, minds-on experiential lessons and activities in science/technology, engineering/design, and mathematics aligned with NGSS standards, and uses pre and post-testing of students that results in significant and scalable improvements in math and science test scores of 5th graders. The STARBASE Advanced Program offers professional engineers with exemplary technical knowledge of engineering and rocketry in an after-school mentoring program for high school teams, including extra-curricular aerospace engineering and technical education to high school students in the greater Los Angeles area, participation in The American Rocketry Challenge (ARC), and training exercises that promote careers in science and technology.
DoD STARBASE Los Alamitos has participated in partnerships, events, and projects with the Army/Sunburst Academy, universities, and civic organizations such as Scouting, and currently has partnerships with JROTC, Army Research Lab, GEMS, USC Project Payload, Girl Scouts of Orange County, Anaheim School District, Huntington Beach School District, and Santa Ana School District. In The American Rocketry Challenge (ARC), an aerospace design and engineering event allowing students to design and build model rockets, teams from the program have qualified and gone to Washington, D.C. to compete in the National Rocketry Challenge on several occasions, winning awards for rocket design.
Last updated July 5, 2026.
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