NPS Provides Local College Students Valuable Research Experience

Abstract

Through Hartnell Community College's STEM Internship program, Rodrigo Sanchez began his first summer internship in 2008 at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS), where he spent several weeks working in the school’s Marine Propulsion Laboratory. Sanchez returned to NPS the following year, and spent his entire summer working in the Control and Optimization Laboratories on the development of a small-scale autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicle. Rodrigo has since transferred to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, where he is on track to graduate in 2012.