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NCAS Patch

NCAS patch
NCAS Patch

NCAS is bold and prominent atop Mars, representing the goal for community college students to boldly engage in NASA’s legacy of discovery, leadership, and opportunity. Mars is shown as theme around which teams of scholars compete to design, build, and test a robotic explorer. The red, gold, navy, and green arcs represent the four NCAS team colors. The atom, computer, gears, and pi icons represent the students’ pursuit of degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM. The six bright stars represent the Agency’s six communications priorities, amplified in the NCAS online course which, in step with the Agency’s communications framework , seeks to make NASA content relevant, compelling, accessible, and participatory. The thin blue line evokes our home planet and the need to cultivate the next generation of explorers to reach for new heights, reveal the unknown, and benefit all human kind.