The California Space Authority has given its Buzz Aldrin Space Education and Workforce Award to a Cal State Long Beach program that has students building rockets and rocket engines.
The California Launch Vehicle Education Initiative was developed by Cal State Long Beach and Garvey Space Corporation.
Kevin Butler has been covering education for more than five years at the Press-Telegram. Previously he was a reporter at the Los Angeles Independent weeklies and in the Washington, D.C., bureau of Investor's Business Daily. A native of Houston, Butler graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor's in economics and government. 

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