Bay Area-Houston and Habitat for Humanity held its second annual Aerospace Games last week.

Ten companies participated in the event along with volunteers from the community to raise funds to build a home for a family in need.

Aerospace Project Build was created by companies within the aerospace industry to take part in the funding of Habitat homes throughout the Bay Area and other surrounding cities.

The companies represented teams that participated in a variety of round robin events with the winning team designated to raise the walls at a Habitat home.

This year, that honor will go to the employees at UTC Aerospace Systems, who raised $7,000 from their own volunteer fundraising efforts.

Each team that participated at last weeks event will spend every weekend throughout the building process of a new Habitat home.

United Space Alliance, Boeing, NASA, Bastion Technologies and JSC Federal Credit Union were just a few of the companies participating in this years games.

Organizers set their goal at increasing the participation and money raise, said Rachel Ward, resource development coordinator for Bay Area Habitat for Humanity-Houston.

This years Aerospace Games raised between 45-$50,000 compared to last years $30,000.

Our goal was to increase the event by 50 percent and we were able to do that exactly financially and by the number of people that participate, said Ward.

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