With its sprawling campus located partly in La Cañada Flintridge and partly in Pasadena, NASA's Jet Propulsion…More Laboratory is the US center for robotic exploration of the solar system.</p> <p> Established by the California Institute of Technology in the 1930s, JPL created America's first satellite, Explorer 1 which launched in 1958, according to the company's website. As the decades ticked on, the company sent the first robotic craft to the moon and out across the solar system, inspecting all of the planets up close.</p> <p>In fact, the website touts, pushing the outer edge of exploration is the reason JPL exists as a NASA laboratory. </p> <p> </p>

Paradise Canyon Elementary School is located in the northeastern foothills of La Cañada Flintridge. It is…More a K-6 school with a current enrollment of 651 students. Paradise Canyon students regularly participate in enrichment programs, such as music, drama, art, Spanish, computers, science club, chess club, and reading intervention. The science club is coordinated and taught by parents who work with the community-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory.</p> <p> </p> <p> </p>