Jefferson County students showed NASA mentors the hardware they are building
The district is one of three in the country named a NASA HUNCH Center of Excellence. Students design hardware for the space station and Artemis, and some of their work has already flown.
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Jefferson County School District is one of only three districts in the United States named a Center of Excellence in NASA's HUNCH program, High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware. CBS Colorado reported on October 10, 2026, that students design and build projects for the International Space Station and the Artemis missions, starting from ideas astronauts have raised.
On Friday they sat for a review with NASA mentors, one of the few chances to show the work and get feedback before it is refined. Warren Tech engineering instructor Matthew Brown said the program has already sent several projects to the station for testing. Last year more than 30 projects from the program were selected to compete at the national level at Johnson Space Center in Houston.
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