accelerating the next frontier - base 11

Accelerating the Next Frontier

2018ANNUAL REPORT

https://www.base11.com

Thanks to our friends and supporters, 2018 was a defining year for Base 11. We launched the $1 million+

Base 11 Space Challenge to an international audience, and we provided a $1.6 million Aerospace Workforce

Development Grant to a Historically Black College & University (HBCU). We expanded our Base 11 SoCal

Ecosystem, providing more industry-quality fabrication resources to students in the area. Plus, we rolled out

our Autonomous Systems Engineering Academy to community college campuses in two states, and began

developing an entirely new high school curriculum for data analytics.

In 2019 we will launch the Next Frontier Campaign to raise the necessary funding to sustain Base 11’s core work

of accelerating students on the path to STEM careers in Next Frontier industries like commercial aerospace,

autonomous systems and data analytics.

Thank you for all that you have done and continue to do to make a difference in the lives of students!

Sincerely,

Landon Taylor

Chairman & CEO

Message from the CEO

CEO’s Message | Impact | National Network | Regional Ecosystems | Partners | Financials | Board of Directors


Accelerating Impact

Reaching More Students Building More Partnerships

2015 20154 Students 3 Partners

323 Students 15 Partners

3,490 Students 26 Partners

5,264 Students 32 Corporate & Foundation Partners

2016 2016

2017 2017

2018 2018

National Network


32 TEAMS FROM THE U.S. AND CANADA

$1,150,000IN PRIZES

100 kmALTITUDE THE LIQUID-FUEL

ROCKET MUST REACH TO WIN

12/30/2021DEADLINE

“I’m so excited to see what maverick thinkers, rebels, scientists

and engineers will come into this competition to build super

efficient, capable liquid rocket propulsion. The million dollars

is just the beginning...more importantly it is about creativity in

changing the world and opening up the space frontier.”

—Dr. Peter Diamandis, Founder, XPRIZE


Base 11 Space Challenge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMvX3pSeJEg

A Bold PrizeBase 11 subsidiary, the National Rocketry League, launched the

largest, boldest and most exciting incentive challenge ever offered

to college students: the $1 million Base 11 Space Challenge.

The mission behind the Base 11 Space Challenge is to dramatically

increase the STEM talent with greater inclusion of women and

underrepresented minorities, while empowering the future

workforce with the education and skill-training necessary for jobs in

the aerospace and related industries.

This challenges offers a $1 million prize to the university team that

can design, build and launch a liquid-fuel rocket to the Kármán line,

the edge of space, by the end of 2021.

Safe StartAlready the challenge has brought about a series of firsts. In

October, Base 11 held the first safety training for 125 students across

three sites, and released the first-ever safety manual establishing

liquid-fuel rocketry safety standards at the university level.

Base 11Space Challenge Partners


Base 11 Space Challenge

The commercial space industry is projected to become a $2.7

trillion market by the year 2035. While women and people of

color were largely left behind in Silicon Valley tech boom, Base

11 is determined not to let that happen to commercial aerospace

and other Next Frontier industries.

To that end, Base 11 in partnership with Sigma Pi Phi fraternity

offered a $1.6 million Aerospace Workforce and Leadership

Development Grant and 11 Historically Black Colleges &

Universities (HBCUs) applied. Morgan State University was

selected for the grant by a panel that included NASA astronaut

Leland Melvin as well as experts from Dassault Systèmes, Blue

Origin, SpaceX, Sigma Pi Phi and Base 11.

The grant will fund a state-of-the-art rocketry lab and launch a

student rocketry team on the campus, which plans to collaborate

with an existing team in the Base 11 Space Challenge.


$1.6M Aerospace Workforce Development Grant

https://www.base11.com/sigma-pi-phi-grant-announcement/

https://www.base11.com/sigma-pi-phi-grant-announcement/

https://www.base11.com/morgan-state-rocketry-grant/

https://www.base11.com/morgan-state-rocketry-grant/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFPvBqfj3zI&feature=youtu.be


Autonomous System Engineering Academy Soars

A grant from the Dassault Systèmes US Foundation took

the Autonomous Systems Engineering Academy (ASEA) to new

heights in 2018. The foundation funded the adaptation of the

ASEA curriculum into a full semester community college course

comprised of 200 hours of lecture, lab and homework.

Through a series of hands-on projects, students learn

electronics, programming and computer-aided design as the

design, build and eventually fly their very own autonomous

system, or drone. Thanks to the grant, the program now includes

industry-recognized training on Dassault Systèmes’ state-of-

the art 3D design platforms — a skill that will give an edge to

students pursuing Next Frontier industries.

In 2018, faculty at the following colleges were trained to

teach the ASEA course: Skyline College in Northern California;

Compton College and Cerritos College in Southern California;

and South Mountain Community College in Phoenix, Arizona.

https://www.base11.com/solutions/asea/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLeP-GV7-xE

Anticipating growth in machine

learning, artificial intelligence,

blockchain and digital disruption,

the Deloitte Foundation funded a

grant for Base 11 to develop a year-

long data analytics curriculum for

high school juniors.

Through hands-on projects,

students will be exposed to

practical and innovative uses of

technology to solve diverse and

complex business and social

problems. They will gain skills

in data collection, analytics and

visualization, preparing them to

study or pursue careers in Next

Frontier industries like computer

science and artificial intelligence.


Deloitte Looks Ahead to Data Analytics

Thousands of young men of color made strides toward

becoming future STEM leaders of the Next Frontier through

the Verizon Innovative Learning—Minority Males

program, administered by Base 11. During the summer,

the middle school boys spent several weeks on campus

at one of 24 Historically Black Colleges & Universities

(HBCUs) or Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs) across the

country. Through hands-on activities, students explored

topics including mobile app development, 3D modeling

and printing, engineering, robotics and computer science.

Proud parents were delighted to discover that the program

gave their children greater enthusiasm for STEM.


Verizon Focuses on STEM Futures for Minority Males

3,412MIDDLE SCHOOL BOYS

IMPACTED IN 2017 AND 2018

24HBCU AND HSI CAMPUSES OFFERED THE PROGRAM

56#FUTUREOFSTEM AND #VILMM SOCIAL

MEDIA POSTS SHARED BY INSTRUCTORS AND PARENTS EACH MONTH

https://www.base11.com/vilmm-summer-2019-futureofstem/

https://twitter.com/nicole27407/status/1026294198708981760

https://twitter.com/reddogg496/status/1016340524133945346

Regional Ecosystems



Regional Ecosystems

Southern CaliforniaEcosystem

Phoenix Ecosystem

Northern CaliforniaEcosystem

Pacific NorthwestEcosystem

Future Ecosystem

North EasternEcosystem

Future Ecosystem

Mid-AtlanticEcosystem

Future Ecosystem

Cristo Rey PhiladelphiaMini-Innovation Center

https://www.base11.com/solutions/eco-system/

In October, Base 11 celebrated the opening of an Innovation Center in

Compton, California. The fourth Base 11 Innovation Center is the first to be

installed in refurbished shipping containers -- and the first to be placed

directly within the community instead of on a school campus.

In December, Moreno Valley College unveiled its new iMake Innovation

Mobile Center, complete with 3D printers, laser cutters and computer-aided

design software. Base 11 partnered with MVC to design and outfit the mobile

lab, install the equipment, and train the staff, which will serve students

throughout Moreno Valley.


Expanding SoCal STEM Ecosystem

https://www.base11.com/base-11-innovation-center-opens-in-compton/

https://www.base11.com/base-11-innovation-center-opens-in-compton/

https://www.base11.com/imake-innovation-mobile-center-premieres-at-moreno-valley-college/

https://www.base11.com/imake-innovation-mobile-center-premieres-at-moreno-valley-college/


Ecosystems Offer Enriching STEM Programming

OC STEM partnered with Base 11 to bring high school juniors from Santa

Ana, California’s Samueli Academy to the Base 11 Innovation Center at

The Cove @ UCI Applied Innovation. Over a series of three Saturdays, the

students learned the engineering design process under the guidance of

STEM undergraduates and designed, fabricated, and coded their own

“soccerbots” -- a robot that kicks a ball into a goal.

“I learned how to design both the hardware and software, and how to

make it all work in unison,” said student participant Xavier.

At Skyline College, the Engineering and Robotics Club used their Base 11

Innovation Center to build a 9-foot solar-powered boat for the California

Solar Regatta. Their creation went on to place 8th out of 17 schools in a

regional competition, and they spent the remainder of the year improving on

it to return to the competition in 2019.

“The Base 11 Innovation Center is the right playground for students to come

up with good solutions for their projects on their own,” said Marco Wehrfritz,

adjunct faculty at Skyline College, who also advises the club.

https://www.base11.com/high-school-students-learn-to-build-robots/

https://www.base11.com/base-11-innovation-center-empowers-students-with-hands-on-engineering-experiences/

This year, the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation provided a $200,000

College Access & Success Grant to support Base 11’s Summer

Fellowship and Academic Year Internships for high achieving

community college students. Not only does the program enable

the continuation of one of Base 11’s best-known programs, but now

Base 11 students will have the additional opportunity to apply for a

Cook Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, worth up to $40,000.

“These are extremely talented students

overcoming great odds to succeed.”

—Beverly McKeon

Theodore von Karman Professor

of Aeronautics at Caltech


Growing the Victory Circle

5,080NEW STUDENTS ADDED

TO THE VICTORY CIRCLE IN 2018

8,122TOTAL STUDENTS

IN THE VICTORY CIRCLE 2015-2018

11,000GOAL NUMBER OF

STUDENTS IN THE VICTORY CIRCLE BY 2021

$200KGRANT FROM JACK KENT

COOKE FOUNDATION TO GROW THE VICTORY CIRCLE

https://www.base11.com/jack-kent-cooke-foundation-grant/

“Before the internship, I felt that the

knowledge I had was not enough to begin

working on my own projects. Now, I feel

the confidence to get more involved on the

STEM community, and share the knowledge I

obtained during my internship.”

— Mario Acuna

Skyline College

“The amount of knowledge I obtained during

the program is equivalent to years of work

experience, and classroom lectures, which I

value so much and grateful for.”

— Serli Alexandi

Glendale Community College

“With this internship, it definitely builds up my

confidence in applying to those big industry

internships because it now shows them that

community college students can keep up with

University students.”

— Nathan Sam

Pasadena College


Victory Circle Success

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https://www.base11.com/they-built-they-flew-they-conquered-base-11-celebrates-uci-fellows/

https://www.base11.com/how-serli-alexandi-went-from-intern-to-rocket-scientist/

https://www.base11.com/from-research-to-reality-celebrating-base-11s-caltech-fellows/

Partners



Partners

Innovator


Partners

Inventor

Affiliates

Supporter Friends of Base 11

SmithsonianNational Air and Space Museum

Cerritos College

Chabot College

Compton College

Fullerton College

Irvine Valley College

National College Resource Foundation

Pasadena City College

Santa Ana College

STEMconnector

Tomorrow’s Aeronautical Museum


Financials

Use of Funds

Admin, 21%

Fundraising, 14%

Programs, 65%

2018 Total Revenue

$2,150,499

Corporate & Advisory Board


Landon TaylorChairman & CEO, Base 11

John BeneventiChief Financial Officer, Base 11

Douglas R. BenderManaging Partner SPHR, MA Onyx Global HR

Tonie LeatherberryPrincipal, Deloitte & Touche LLP

Ron de FratesCo-founder, 5X Solutions, Inc.

Craig S. NickersonCEO and President, The Nickerson Group

John PageSenior Corporate Vice President, Chief

Corporate Social Responsibility and Legal Officer at Golden State Foods

Art McCoy, Ph.D.Superintendent, Jennings School District

Dain EhringTech Investor, Entrepreneur

Michelle Flowers Taylor, Ed.D.Founding Director of the Institute for Engineering Community and

Cultural Competence at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering

Andrew C. Jones, Ed.D.Senior Advisor

Raquel TamezCEO, Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers

Carver Gayton, Ph.D.Author and Public Historian

John W. HinesManaging Director – Chief Technologist, JH Technology

Associates LLC

Tom SeaveyRisk Solutions Partner Compliance Risk

Bryan Kent Wallace, Ed.D.Assistant Professor of Physics, Director of Physics

Laboratories, and Coordinator of Rocketry Department of Life and Physical Sciences Fisk University


Corporate & Advisory Board 2018

Corporate Board

Advisory Board

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