Next Gen STEM

A new generation of aerospace explorers will soon embark on a hands-on summer experience focusing on careers in science, mathematics, engineering, and technology (STEM). This month, NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, and the Flight Test Museum Foundation will launch the 2025 Junior Test Pilot School.

Posted June 12, 2025

Kennedy Space Center

For Colleges & Universities

Learning Resources

Next Gen STEM

Partner with NASA STEM

STEM Engagement at NASA

STEM Impacts

Future Engineers Shine at NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Robotics Competition

And the winner is… the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The Utah Student Robotics Club won the grand prize Artemis Award on May 22 for NASA’s 2025 Lunabotics Challenge held at The Astronauts Memorial Foundation’s Center for Space Education at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. “Win was our motto for the […]

Posted June 3, 2025

Aeronautics

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Learning Resources

Next Gen STEM

NASA Supports Next Generation of Innovators

When young minds come together to test their knowledge and creativity in technology and innovation, the results are truly inspiring. In its sixth year, Aerospace Valley Regional FIRST Robotics Competition at East High School in Lancaster, California, proved to be another success.

Posted April 17, 2025

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Learning Resources

Next Gen STEM

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA Inspires High School Engineering Club

A group of enthusiastic high school students recently visited NASA to learn about facilities and capabilities that enable the agency’s researchers to explore, innovate, and inspire for the benefit of humanity.

Posted February 14, 2025

Armstrong Flight Research Center

Aeronautics

Learning Resources

Next Gen STEM

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA Experts Share Inspiring Stories of Perseverance to Students

In celebration of National Aviation History Month, experts from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California, spoke with middle school students during a recent event hosted by NASA’s California Office of STEM Engagement.

Posted December 3, 2024

Johnson Space Center

Artemis

General

Next Gen STEM

STEM Engagement at NASA

xEVA & Human Surface Mobility

NASA Celebrates 10 Years of Human Spaceflight’s NExT Pioneers

Experienced spacewalkers, university students, flight controllers, and NASA team members at all stages of their career recently came together at Johnson Space Center’s Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) for an anniversary celebration that looked to the future as much as the past.

Posted June 27, 2024

Learning Resources

Next Gen STEM

STEM Engagement at NASA

Stennis Space Center

Artemis Generation Students Inspired During NASA STEM Event

By Bo Black at NASA’s Stennis Space Center, with assistance from students at Pascagoula (Mississippi) High School, Hancock County (Mississippi) Career Technical Center, and Springfield (Louisiana) High School The questions kept coming, exceeding the allotted time, as students at NASA’s Next Gen STEM event in late February explored the importance of

Posted March 6, 2024

Ames Research Center

Internships

NASA STEM Projects

Next Gen STEM

Opportunities For Students to Get Involved

Science Mission Directorate

Space Biology

Space Biology Program

The Space Life Sciences Training Program at Ames Research Center

The Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) provides undergraduate students entering their junior or senior years, and entering graduate students, with professional experience in space life science disciplines. This challenging ten-week summer program is hosted by NASA’s Ames Research Center

Posted October 18, 2023