CYPRESS — Congratulations on the recent success of the Lone Star College-CyFair Honors Engineering Team Calypso, one of 20 teams competing against primarily 4-year institutions at the Texas Space Grant Consortium Design Challenge.

Winning second overall Top Design Team and first in Best Peer Review for their spacesuit quick release system design were members, from left, John Lentz, Alma Gallardo-Campos, Xavier Shockney (deputy team lead), Minh Thu Nguyen and Kyle Randall (team lead.) View all the space design presentations on the TSGC Design Challenge’s YouTube channel https://youtu.be/hGfMq9wKcQU. Team Calypso is now continuing to improve their prototype in preparation for the spring TSGC Design Challenge.​ Register for spring LSC-CyFair classes now at LoneStar.edu/cyfair.​

Helping more than 23,000 students reach their academic and career goals, Lone Star College-CyFair is the fifth comprehensive college in the Lone Star College System, located at 9191 Barker Cypress Road just 3 miles south of U.S. Highway 290. Start close and go far at LSC-CyFair as well as at LSC-Cypress Center, located at 19710 Clay Road and LSC-Westway Park Technology Center, located at 5060 Westway Park Boulevard. For more information about LSC-CyFair and its programs, call 281.290.3200 or visit LoneStar.edu/cyfair.

Lone Star College offers high-quality, low-cost academic transfer and career training education to 93,000+ students each semester. LSC is training tomorrow’s workforce today and redefining the community college experience to support student success. Stephen C. Head, Ph.D., serves as chancellor of LSC, the largest institution of higher education in the Houston area with an annual economic impact of nearly $3 billion. LSC consists of seven colleges, 10 centers, two university centers, Lone Star Corporate College and LSC-Online. To learn more, visit LoneStar.edu.