The third annual High Altitude Balloon Launch Challenge and Competition took place Saturday at Catawba Valley Community College (CVCC).
Six community colleges were in attendance and included: CVCC, Rowan Cabarrus Community College, Edgecombe Community College, Southwestern Community College, Pitt Community College and Durham Technical Community College.
“This is a NASA-funded project,” Jim Thomas, department head of engineering technologies at CVCC, said. “The first year was only four of us, and we launched at the Iredell fair grounds.