STEM Engagement at NASA

Opportunities For Students to Get Involved

Science Mission Directorate

Attention Students: NASA Launches Power Systems Student Essay Contest

NASA’s fourth annual Power to Explore Student Challenge kicked off November 7, 2024.

Posted November 7, 2024

For Educators

For Kids and Students

Humans in Space

ISS Research

STEM Engagement at NASA

Hello Earth? Space Calling

How it started versus how it’s going for astronaut Nick Hague with ISS Ham Radio on the space station. Since November 2000, crew members like Hague have used ham radio to communicate with people on Earth through this educational program, also known as Amateur Radio on the International Space Station or ARISS. So far, there […]

Posted October 30, 2024

Glenn Research Center

Events

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Opportunities For Students to Get Involved

Opportunities For U.S. Citizens to Get Involved

STEM Engagement at NASA

Submit Your 2025 Event Proposal to NASA

NASA is making event plans for the 2025 calendar year, and we want to pencil you in! We are looking for the Midwest’s biggest and best community events with the broadest audiences to share NASA’s content and raise awareness of the agency’s most exciting aeronautics and space missions. NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland is […]

Posted October 23, 2024

ISS Research

General

Humans in Space

International Space Station (ISS)

Johnson Space Center

STEM Engagement at NASA

Educational Activities in Space

Science in Space: September 2024 As students of all ages returned to school this month, crew members on the International Space Station continue to conduct a variety of educational programs and activities that support learning on the ground. These efforts are part of a wider commitment at NASA to engage, inspire, and attract future generations […]

Posted September 24, 2024

Aeronautics

Kennedy Space Center

STEM Engagement at NASA

Girls in STEM Inspired to Fly High at NASA Kennedy

For the third straight year, scores of young women flew to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to learn how to make their aviation dreams take flight as part of the Delta Air Lines Women Inspiring our Next Generation (WING) program. Their Boeing 737 aircraft, piloted by an all-female crew, carried 130 girls, ages 11 […]

Posted September 24, 2024

STEM Engagement at NASA

Glenn Research Center

Learning Resources

Opportunities For Educators to Get Involved

Opportunities For Students to Get Involved

Outside the Classroom

NASA, US Department of Education Bring STEM to After-School Programs

NASA and the U.S. Department of Education are teaming up to engage students in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education during after-school hours. The interagency program aims to reach approximately 1,000 students in more than 60 sites across 10 states to join the program, 21st Century Community Learning Centers.

Posted September 24, 2024

Learning Resources

For Colleges & Universities

MUREP

Partner with NASA STEM

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA Grants to Strengthen Diversity in Engineering, STEM Fields

NASA is awarding $7.2 million to six minority-serving institutions to grow initiatives in engineering-related disciplines and fields for learners who have historically been underrepresented and underserved in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields.

Posted September 19, 2024

STEM Engagement at NASA

Learning Resources

Opportunities For Students to Get Involved

Partner with NASA STEM

Partner With Us

NASA, US Department of Education to Launch STEM Project in Washington

Media are invited to the kickoff event of a collaboration between NASA and the U.S. Department of Education at 4 p.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 23, at the Wheatley Education Campus in Washington.

Posted September 18, 2024

For Educators

Aerosols

Climate Change

Clouds

Earth

Earth's Atmosphere

For Kids and Students

Grades 5 - 8

Grades 5 - 8 for Educators

Grades 9 - 12

Grades 9-12 for Educators

Grades K - 4

Grades K - 4 for Educators

Learning Resources

NASA STEM Projects

Partner with NASA STEM

Space Grant

STEM Engagement at NASA

Going Back-to-School with NASA Data

As students head back to school, teachers have a new tool that brings NASA satellite data down to their earthly classrooms. For over 50 years of observing Earth, NASA’s satellites have collected petabytes of global science data (that’s millions and millions of gigabytes) – with even more terabytes more coming in by the day. Since 2004, […]

Posted September 16, 2024

Learning Resources

For Colleges & Universities

MUREP

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA Mobilizes Resource for HBCU Scholars, Highlighted at Conference

NASA will spotlight its program to engage underrepresented and underserved students in science, technology, engineering, and math at the 2024 National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Week Conference in Philadelphia, from Sunday, Sept. 15, to Thursday, Sept. 19.

Posted September 16, 2024