> **Independence.** This page is a Wikitube reading guide written by MTN. It is not a Minnesota State page. Minnesota State, its Centers of Excellence and colleges, NASA and the other organizations named here have not reviewed, endorsed or sponsored it; it describes no specific partnership or agreement with any of them; and nothing on it commits them to anything.
What the page says about them comes from their own public pages and is cited. Everything else, from the map and the counts to the shelf and the work list, is Wikitube's own.
A [[Center_of_excellence|center of excellence]] is a team or facility that leads practice and training in one focus area. Minnesota State, a system of public colleges and universities in Minnesota, hosts seven of them, "each serving a major industry that faces serious workforce challenges."[^coe] This portal maps those industries to the rooms, articles and microsims on Wikitube that carry the science under them.
In August 2026 NASA selected one of them, the Transportation Center of Excellence, as one of seven Aerospace Skilled Technical Workforce State Hubs,[^ms] and this page sets that hub's training areas beside what the site already has.
Wikitube's Microsims are learning objects for testing, credentialing and intern curation and validation.
## How to read this page
The page keeps two layers apart. Sectionsreport Minnesota State, the Centers and NASA say about themselves, with a source for every figure, date and name; any such fact repeated elsewhere on the page carries its source too.
The rest is Wikitube's own: the sections headed **Wikitube**, which map each sector to the rooms, articles and microsims that carry its science and count how much of it exists today, and the production standard, spine, shelf, crosslinks, work list and notes. The map is editorial judgment.
No Center asked for it, and each Center's own site is the authority on what it teaches.
Counts were taken on September 19, 2026. A microsim counts as live when its player answered that day.[^count]
## Report: Minnesota State's Centers of Excellence
Minnesota State lists seven Centers of Excellence.[^coe] Minnesota State sunset the Advanced Manufacturing Center of Excellence at Bemidji State University and moved its operations and programs to the Engineering Center at Minnesota State Mankato; the combined unit is the Minnesota State Engineering and Applied Manufacturing Center of Excellence.[^mfg]
| Center, as Minnesota State lists it | What the Center's own site describes | Site |
|---|---|---|
| Northern Agricultural | Programs and career pathways in agriculture, food and natural resources[^agn] | [agcentric.org](https://www.agcentric.org/) |
| Southern Agricultural | Work to "promote and establish agricultural education excellence in Minnesota across the industry"[^ags] | [centerofagriculture.org](https://www.centerofagriculture.org/) |
| Energy | The address Minnesota State lists for the Center redirects to Powering Minnesota, whose college-partner list includes solar, wind, electrical line work, nuclear technology, mechatronics and water quality programs[^nrg] | [energycareersminnesota.org](https://www.energycareersminnesota.org/) |
| Engineering and Applied Manufacturing | Engineering design challenges for grades 3–12;[^eng] a manufacturing site that lists programs college by college, for example Hennepin Technical College's machining, welding and fabrication, and robotics, automation and mechatronics programs[^mnmfg] | [engineering.mnsu.edu](https://engineering.mnsu.edu/) · [mnmfg.org](https://www.mnmfg.org/) |
| HealthForce | A health care core curriculum, and an initiative on the shortage of clinical-laboratory training facilities[^hf] | [healthforceminnesota.org](https://healthforceminnesota.org/) |
| IT | Hands-on work with hardware, Python, Linux and cyber threats, and camps on programming a microcontroller and on how AI works[^it] | [minnesotatechresources.org](https://www.minnesotatechresources.org/) |
| Transportation | Automotive, aviation, collision repair, diesel equipment and truck, marine and powersports, railroad, and truck driving[^trn] | [minntran.org](https://www.minntran.org/) |
## — NASA's aerospace workforce hub in Minnesota
On August 19, 2026, NASA announced that it had "awarded approximately $10.5 million to seven institutions" for NASA State Hubs, cooperative agreements funded by its Office of STEM Engagement through the Next Gen STEM Project.[^nasa] Minnesota State Colleges and Universities is one of the seven.[^nasa]
Minnesota State's release of August 20 says NASA selected the Transportation Center of Excellence "as one of seven Aerospace Skilled Technical Workforce State Hubs in the nation and the only hub located in the Midwest," and describes "a three-year, $1.5 million initiative."[^ms]
The hub is the Minnesota Aerospace Skilled Technical Workforce Hub (MnASTW), led by the Transportation Center.[^mnastw] Federal spending records list the award as cooperative agreement 80NSSC26M0067, with a period of performance from July 1, 2026, to June 30, 2029.[^usa]
The release says the initiative "will align training in welding, precision machining, automation, robotics, avionics, nondestructive testing, and systems integration with employer demand."
Over three years it aims to enroll 1,800 to 2,400 students in aerospace-aligned pathways and award 500 to 700 aerospace-specific credentials; to establish 140 to 200 new registered apprenticeships and internships; to reach 1,000 to 1,400 high school students; and to provide professional development for educators.[^ms] Its core college partners are Dakota County Technical College, Pine Technical & Community College and Ridgewater College, and the release also names industry and workforce partners.[^ms]
## Wikitube — ⊙ the center circle: Space Mining in Minnesota
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*Wikitube layer: this site's own map.*
Wikitube lays out the eight sectors on this page in a ring around one center, Space Mining in Minnesota.[^thury] The center is MTN's own room, not a Minnesota State Center. Its shelf in the compendium's library holds physical and environmental geology, slurry transport, rock cutting and space systems.
- **Start in:** [[PORTAL_Rocketry]] (33 live players) · [[PORTAL_Solar_System]] (57) · [[PORTAL_Helium-3]] (73) · [[PORTAL_Physics]] (104)
- **Articles:** [[Regolith]] · [[Lunar_resources]] · [[In_situ_resource_utilization]] · [[Mining_engineering]] · [[Moon]] · [[Mars]] · [[Asteroid]] · [[Asteroid_mining]] (not written yet)
- **Flagship page:** [[WT!Space_Mining_In_Minnesota]] (registered; not on the current site)
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## Wikitube — the ring of sectors
*Wikitube layer: this site's own map.*
Wikitube keeps eight sectors on this page, although Minnesota State now lists seven Centers:[^coe] Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing stay separate here, and both point at the one Engineering and Applied Manufacturing Center.[^mfg] Each sector has a flagship page (three are registered and not yet written); a bridge into the [[WT!Thury_Hydrodynamics_Compendium|Thury Hydrodynamics Compendium]], quoted from the compendium's own table;[^thury] the rooms elsewhere on the site where its science already runs, with their live players; and a share of MTN's crosswalk between these sectors and NASA's hub disciplines: 600 Wikipedia articles a microsim can carry, 50 for each sector and 200 for the hub disciplines.[^xw]
### 1 · [[WT!Engineering_Center_of_Excellence|Engineering]] · ring:0
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<div class="wt-sim" data-src="https://wikitube-3d-microsims.netlify.app/engineering/Hooke's_law.html" data-title="Hooke's law"></div>
<div class="wt-sim" data-src="https://wikitube-3d-microsims.netlify.app/matter/Stress–strain_curve.html" data-title="Stress–strain curve · matter"></div>
<div class="wt-sim" data-src="https://wikitube-3d-microsims.netlify.app/engineering/Stress–strain_curve.html" data-title="Stress–strain curve · engineering"></div>
<div class="wt-sim" data-src="https://wikitube-3d-microsims.netlify.app/acoustics/Damping.html" data-title="Damping · acoustics"></div>
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Bridge: fluid dynamics "as design constraint".
- **Start in:** [[PORTAL_Engineering]] (19 live players, 11 staged) · [[PORTAL_Materials_science]] (22) · [[PORTAL_Acoustics]] (91)
- **Already written, with microsims:** [[Simple_machine]] · [[Four-bar_linkage]] · [[Flywheel]] · [[Hooke's_law]] · [[Stress–strain_curve]] · [[Damping]] · [[Resonance]] · [[Harmonic_oscillator]]
### 2 · [[WT!Advanced_Manufacturing_Center_of_Excellence|Advanced Manufacturing]] · ring:1
Bridge: "coolant, hydraulics, ISO 1219 signs". At Minnesota State this sector now sits with the Engineering and Applied Manufacturing Center.[^mfg]
- **Start in:** [[PORTAL_Engineering]] (Part V: design and manufacturing) · [[PORTAL_Robotics]] (14 live players, 17 staged) · [[PORTAL_Reliability_engineering]] (61)
- **Already written:** [[Speeds_and_feeds]] · [[Heat_treating]], neither with a microsim yet
### 3 · [[WT!Transportation_Center_of_Excellence|Transportation]] · ring:2
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Bridge: "fuel, aero drag, [[Reynolds_number]] regimes". This Center leads Minnesota's NASA hub, MnASTW.[^mnastw] Wikitube's page for this sector is registered and not yet written.
- **Start in:** [[PORTAL_Aviation]] (68) · [[PORTAL_Avionics]] (38) · [[PORTAL_Rocketry]] (33) · [[PORTAL_Engineering]] (Part III: vehicles)
- **Already written, with a microsim:** [[Ackermann_steering_geometry]]
### 4 · [[WT!Energy_Center_of_Excellence|Energy]] · ring:3
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Bridge: "turbines, [[Turbulence]], penstock flow".
- **Start in:** [[PORTAL_Energy]] (89) · [[PORTAL_Thury_Hydrodynamics_Apex_Spine]] (114) · [[PORTAL_Hydrogen]] (215)
- **Already written, with microsims:** [[Pumped-storage_hydroelectricity]] · [[Francis_turbine]] · [[Pelton_wheel]] · [[Penstock]] · [[Capacity_factor]] · [[Electric_power_transmission]]
### 5 · [[WT!IT_Center_of_Excellence|IT]] · ring:4
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Bridge: "packet flow as fluid analogy, cooling loops literal".
- **Start in:** [[PORTAL_Information_theory]] (77) · [[PORTAL_Signal_Processing]] (73) · [[PORTAL_Electronics]] (49) · [[PORTAL_Network_theory]] (15)
- **Already written, with microsims:** [[Logic_gate]] · [[Flip-flop_(electronics)]] · [[Queueing_theory]]
### 6 · [[WT!HealthForce_Center_of_Excellence|HealthForce]] · ring:5
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Bridge: "hemodynamics, [[Viscosity]] of blood". Health articles on Wikitube are educational, not clinical guidance.
- **Start in:** [[PORTAL_Chemistry]] (26) · [[PORTAL_Acoustics]] (91) · [[PORTAL_Oxygen]] (208) · [[PORTAL_Feedback]] (46)
- **Already written, with microsims:** [[Magnetic_resonance_imaging]] · [[Medical_ultrasound]]
- **Written, microsims pending on [[PORTAL_Chemistry]]:** [[Beer–Lambert_law]] · [[PH]] · [[Buffer_solution]]
### 7 · [[WT!Northern_Agricultural_Center_of_Excellence|Northern Agricultural]] · ring:6
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Bridge: "irrigation, drainage, spring melt". Wikitube's page for this sector is registered and not yet written.
- **Start in:** [[PORTAL_Thury_Hydrodynamics_Apex_Spine]] (114) · [[PORTAL_WT!Thury_Hydrodynamics_Compendium]] (64) · [[PORTAL_Stock_and_flow]] (9)
- **Already written, with microsims:** [[Infiltration_(hydrology)]] · [[Aquifer]] · [[Darcy's_law]] · [[Carrying_capacity]]
### 8 · [[WT!Southern_Agricultural_Center_of_Excellence|Southern Agricultural]] · ring:7
Bridge: "tile flow, river load, [[Water]] budgets". Wikitube's page for this sector is registered and not yet written.
- **Start in:** [[PORTAL_WT!Thury_Hydrodynamics_Compendium]] (64) · [[PORTAL_Chemistry]] (26) · [[PORTAL_Stock_and_flow]] (9)
- **Already written:** none of its 50 crosswalk articles yet; [[Tile_drainage]] is first in the queue
### The crosswalk, counted
| List | Articles on Wikitube | With a microsim |
|---|---|---|
| Engineering | 9 of 50 | 8 |
| Advanced Manufacturing | 2 of 50 | 0 |
| Transportation | 1 of 50 | 1 |
| Energy | 10 of 50 | 6 |
| IT | 5 of 50 | 3 |
| HealthForce | 8 of 50 | 2 |
| Northern Agricultural | 4 of 50 | 4 |
| Southern Agricultural | 0 of 50 | 0 |
| NASA, entry level | 33 of 100 | 18 |
| NASA, advanced | 18 of 100 | 13 |
| **All** | **90 of 600** | **55** |
## Wikitube — mapping the hub's training areas
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*Wikitube layer: this site's own map.*
The Transportation Center leads the hub,[^mnastw] so Wikitube files the hub under the Transportation sector, whose compendium bridge already runs through the [[Reynolds_number]]. The hub's training areas reach into the Advanced Manufacturing and Engineering sectors as well.
That grouping is Wikitube's reading, not the hub's own description, and it says nothing about the hub's plans.
The seven training areas the release names,[^ms] and what Wikitube has on each today (live players in parentheses):
| Training area | On Wikitube now | Not written yet |
|---|---|---|
| Welding | [[Welding]] · [[Gas_tungsten_arc_welding]] (1) | [[Friction_stir_welding]] |
| Precision machining | [[Speeds_and_feeds]] · [[PORTAL_Engineering]], "Machining and CNC" (player staged) | [[Computer_numerical_control]] |
| Automation | [[Mechatronics]] · [[PID_controller]] (1) · [[PORTAL_Control_theory]] (52) | [[Programmable_logic_controller]] |
| Robotics | [[Robotics]] · [[PORTAL_Robotics]] (14, and 17 staged) | [[Industrial_robot]] |
| Avionics | [[Avionics]] (27) · [[Fly-by-wire]] (1) · [[PORTAL_Avionics]] (38) | [[Pitot_tube]] |
| Nondestructive testing | [[Ultrasonic_testing]] (1) | [[Nondestructive_testing]] · [[Industrial_radiography]] · [[Eddy-current_testing]] |
| Systems integration | [[Systems_engineering]] · [[PORTAL_Systems_engineering]] (39) | [[System_integration]] |
MTN's crosswalk adds 100 entry-level and 100 advanced articles for the disciplines the seven hubs list on NASA's State Hubs page:[^hubs] 33 and 18 of them are on Wikitube, 18 and 13 with a microsim.[^xw] MTN also has a 15-card prototype arcade deck on these subjects in draft; it waits for review by MTN staff before any classroom use, and for the games database. Four of its fifteen articles are on Wikitube: [[Ultrasonic_testing]], [[Gas_tungsten_arc_welding]], [[Avionics]] and [[Reynolds_number]].
<div class="wt-simrow">
<div class="wt-sim" data-src="https://wikitube-3d-microsims.netlify.app/acoustics/Ultrasonic_testing.html" data-title="Ultrasonic testing"></div>
<div class="wt-sim" data-src="https://editor.p5js.org/sciencenibber/full/t7_nlT5EX" data-title="Gas tungsten arc welding"></div>
<div class="wt-sim" data-src="https://wikitube-3d-microsims.netlify.app/flight/Pitot–static_system.html" data-title="Pitot–static system"></div>
<div class="wt-sim" data-src="https://wikitube-3d-microsims.netlify.app/Fly-by-wire.html" data-title="Fly-by-wire"></div>
<div class="wt-sim" data-src="https://wikitube-3d-microsims.netlify.app/thury/Reynolds_number.html" data-title="Reynolds number"></div>
</div>
## Production standards
This portal's other job. Wikitube's production standard for microsims lives in two master classes: [[WT!Three_js_Microsim_Master_Class]] for three.js scenes (its page is being restored to the site) and [[WT!P5_js_Microsim_Master_Class]] for p5.js sketches. The standard is the same in every room on this page: one file per sim; the canonical equation on screen, with a live readout of what the sim is computing; no network calls, no storage and no sound that plays by itself; and the word ILLUSTRATIVE wherever the model simplifies. Production deploys are a person's decision, not an agent's.
## Spine
| # | Article | Reveal | Microsim | Node |
|---|---------|--------|----------|------|
| ⊙ | [[WT!Space_Mining_In_Minnesota]] | | | center |
| 1 | [[WT!Engineering_Center_of_Excellence]] | p5 | | ring:0 |
| 2 | [[WT!Advanced_Manufacturing_Center_of_Excellence]] | p5 | | ring:1 |
| 3 | [[WT!Transportation_Center_of_Excellence]] | | | ring:2 |
| 4 | [[WT!Energy_Center_of_Excellence]] | p5 | | ring:3 |
| 5 | [[WT!IT_Center_of_Excellence]] | p5 | | ring:4 |
| 6 | [[WT!HealthForce_Center_of_Excellence]] | p5 | | ring:5 |
| 7 | [[WT!Northern_Agricultural_Center_of_Excellence]] | | | ring:6 |
| 8 | [[WT!Southern_Agricultural_Center_of_Excellence]] | | | ring:7 |
| 9 | [[WT!Three_js_Microsim_Master_Class]] | three | | |
| 10 | [[WT!P5_js_Microsim_Master_Class]] | p5 | | |
## Book shelf
| # | Title | Where it serves this page | Where it is |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Basic Engineering Science: A Systems, Accounting, and Modeling Approach (2001) | Engineering, and the systems-and-accounting approach under every sector | [open.umn.edu](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/basic-engineering-science-a-systems-accounting-and-modeling-approach) |
| 2 | Manufacturing Processes 4-5 (2019) | Advanced Manufacturing: machining | [open.umn.edu](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/manufacturing-processes-4-5) |
| 3 | Sustainable Mobility (2024) | Transportation | [open.umn.edu](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/sustainable-mobility) |
| 4 | Introduction to Biosystems Engineering (2021) | Northern and Southern Agricultural | [open.umn.edu](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/introduction-to-biosystems-engineering) |
| 5 | Health and Safety in Canadian Workplaces (2016) | Workplace health and safety for every sector (a Canadian text) | [open.umn.edu](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/health-and-safety-in-canadian-workplaces) |
| 6 | The STEM Advantage: Career Planning and Internship Strategies (2025) | Careers and internships (written for postgraduate students) | [open.umn.edu](https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/textbooks/the-stem-advantage-career-planning-and-internship-strategies-for-science-technology-engineering-and-mathematics-postgraduate-students) |
Each sector also has a four- or five-book bridge shelf in the library of the [[PORTAL_WT!Thury_Hydrodynamics_Compendium|compendium]], and the center circle has one of its own.
## Crosslinks
- Anchor article: [[Center_of_excellence]] (not written yet).
- The spines that carry a Centers of Excellence section: [[PORTAL_Acoustics]] (vibration), [[PORTAL_Signal_Processing]] (signals) and [[PORTAL_WT!Thury_Hydrodynamics_Compendium]] (fluids).
- Rooms that carry the hub's training areas, on Wikitube's map: [[PORTAL_Engineering]], [[PORTAL_Control_theory]], [[PORTAL_Robotics]], [[PORTAL_Avionics]], [[PORTAL_Systems_engineering]].
- The center circle's rooms: [[PORTAL_Solar_System]], [[PORTAL_Helium-3]], [[PORTAL_Physics]].
- Front door: [[Welcome]] · index: [[PORTAL_INDEX]] · all rooms: [[portals]].
## Work list
1. Write or restore the missing pages: the Transportation, Northern Agricultural and Southern Agricultural flagships, the center circle ([[WT!Space_Mining_In_Minnesota]]) and the three.js master class ([[WT!Three_js_Microsim_Master_Class]]).
2. Bring the five written flagship pages, and the Centers table in [[PORTAL_WT!Thury_Hydrodynamics_Compendium]], in line with this one: an independence line, Minnesota State's count of seven Centers, and no host institution without a source.
3. Write the nine articles in the "Not written yet" column of the NASA training table.
4. Deploy the staged players on [[PORTAL_Engineering]] (11) and [[PORTAL_Robotics]] (17).
5. Start the Southern Agricultural list; none of its 50 crosswalk articles is on Wikitube yet.
6. Write this page's anchor article, [[Center_of_excellence]].
## Notes
- **Seven or eight.** Minnesota State lists seven Centers.[^coe] Wikitube keeps eight sectors, as MTN decided on September 10, 2026, when the crosswalk was drawn up; merging Engineering and Advanced Manufacturing later is a relabel, not a rebuild. The five flagship pages written in July 2026 still call their Center "one of the eight".
- **Counts can run ahead of a page.** [[PORTAL_Robotics]] still says none of its own set is live; 14 of its players answered on September 19, 2026.
- **How the counts were made.** See the note on counting.[^count]
[^coe]: Minnesota State, "Minnesota State Centers of Excellence," https://www.minnstate.edu/coe/index.html (accessed September 19, 2026).
[^mfg]: Minnesota State Engineering and Applied Manufacturing Center of Excellence, "About," https://www.mnmfg.org/about/ (accessed September 10, 2026; MTN claim ledger, claims E04–E05).
[^agn]: AgCentric, Northern Agricultural Center of Excellence, "About Us," https://agcentric.org/about-us/ (accessed September 10, 2026; ledger E32).
[^ags]: Southern Agricultural Center of Excellence, "About Us," https://centerofagriculture.org/about-us/ (accessed September 10, 2026; ledger E35).
[^nrg]: Powering Minnesota, "College Partners," https://poweringmn.org/college-partners/ (accessed September 19, 2026; ledger E20–E22). The Energy Center's address on Minnesota State's page, energycareersminnesota.org, redirects to poweringmn.org (checked September 19, 2026; ledger E19).
[^eng]: Minnesota State Engineering Center of Excellence, "K-12 Curriculum," https://engineering.mnsu.edu/k12/curriculum/ (accessed September 10, 2026; ledger E11).
[^mnmfg]: Minnesota State Engineering and Applied Manufacturing Center of Excellence, program page for Hennepin Technical College, https://www.mnmfg.org/program/hennepin-technical-college/ (accessed September 10, 2026; ledger E07).
[^hf]: HealthForce Minnesota, "Initiatives," https://healthforceminnesota.org/initiatives/ (accessed September 10, 2026; ledger E28–E29).
[^it]: Minnesota State IT Center of Excellence, https://www.minnesotatechresources.org/ (accessed September 10, 2026; ledger E24–E26).
[^trn]: Minnesota State Transportation Center of Excellence, "Who We Are," https://minntran.org/about-us/who-we-are/ (accessed September 10, 2026; ledger E17).
[^nasa]: NASA, "NASA Establishes State Hubs to Grow Technical Aerospace Workforce," release 26-066, August 19, 2026, https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-establishes-state-hubs-to-grow-technical-aerospace-workforce/ (accessed September 19, 2026).
[^ms]: Minnesota State, "Minnesota State Selected by NASA for $1.5 Million Aerospace Workforce Hub," news release, August 20, 2026, https://www.minnstate.edu/media/newsreleases/2026/082026-awh.html (accessed September 19, 2026).
[^mnastw]: Minnesota State Transportation Center of Excellence, "Minnesota Aerospace Skilled Technical Workforce Hub," https://minntran.org/mnastw/ and NASA, "NASA State Hubs for Skilled Technical Workforce," https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/nasa-state-hubs/ (both accessed September 19, 2026).
[^usa]: USAspending.gov, award 80NSSC26M0067: cooperative agreement from NASA to Minnesota State Colleges & Universities, assistance listing 43.008 (Office of STEM Engagement), https://www.usaspending.gov/award/ASST_NON_80NSSC26M0067_080 (record last modified August 21, 2026; accessed September 19, 2026).
[^thury]: [[PORTAL_WT!Thury_Hydrodynamics_Compendium]], section "The Eight Centers of Excellence — hydrodynamic bridges".
[^hubs]: NASA, "NASA State Hubs for Skilled Technical Workforce," https://www.nasa.gov/learning-resources/nasa-state-hubs/ (accessed September 19, 2026; MTN ledger E43–E48).
[^xw]: MTN, skills crosswalk between the Centers of Excellence sectors and the NASA State Hubs' disciplines, with 600 microsimmable articles, working file, September 10, 2026 (Wikitube Game Kit, `coe-microsim-600/`). The crosswalk's choices and tags are MTN's judgment, not statements by the Centers or NASA.
[^count]: Counted on September 19, 2026. Articles are the pages in `wiki/`. Players are the microsim links a page embeds (click-to-load cards and iframes); each was requested that day, and "live" means it answered. "Staged" means built, placed on the page, and not yet deployed. Crosswalk counts match the 600 titles against the article pages.
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*Rewritten 2026-09-19 as a draft of the 2026-07-29 stub · From minnstate.edu, nasa.gov, minntran.org, usaspending.gov and MTN's 2026-09-10 claim ledger · counts from `wiki/`, `portals/` and `_registry/`, every player link checked live on 2026-09-19 · SIMGALLERY and CRAFT-LINK blocks carried over unchanged · index: [[PORTAL_INDEX]]*
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*Repopulated 2026-09-19 · append-only · source: _tools/generate/g34_portal_section_sims.py@00a28cb2 (players of the linked articles, each URL 200-checked) · 73 added · 0 deletions*
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*Center circle written 2026-09-22 · append-only · Space Mining Pt 1 run under MTN's WT! authorization: [[WT!Space_Mining_In_Minnesota]] now exists in `wiki/` (30 sections in six parts, the Ore Line hero and three section sims built, their players pending MTN's production publish) with its apex portal [[PORTAL_WT!Space_Mining_In_Minnesota]] (Microsim and Article worklists at its foot, serving [[PORTAL_Physics]], [[PORTAL_Chemistry]], [[PORTAL_Engineering]], [[PORTAL_Space]], [[PORTAL_Mining]], [[PORTAL_Manufacturing]], [[PORTAL_Minnesota]] and the [[PORTAL_Computation]] megalith) · Work list item 1's center circle is written; the "not on the current site" line and the [[Asteroid_mining]] "not written yet" tag above stand until the site deploy and that article land · 0 deletions*