STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA Wallops Offers Career Inspiration to Delmarva Students

NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility, partners, and area employers joined forces on a mission to inspire more than 4,500 eighth-grade students seeking answers to all questions “career” at the 2024 Junior Achievement (JA) Inspire event.

Posted March 18, 2024

STEM Engagement at NASA

For Kids and Students

NASA Pi Day Challenge Serves Up a Mathematical Marvel

Celebrate one of the world’s most famous numbers with a set of math problems involving real space missions, courtesy of the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. March 14 marks the annual celebration of the mathematical constant pi, aka the Greek letter π. Its infinite number of digits is usually rounded to 3.14, hence the date of […]

Posted March 7, 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

Quesst (X-59)

Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate

For Kids and Students

Learning Resources

NASA Headquarters

Quesst: The Mission

Quesst: The Science

Quesst: The Team

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA Grants to Engage Students in Quiet Supersonic Community Overflight

NASA has issued new grants to five universities to help develop education plans for the community overflight phase of the agency’s Quesst mission, which aims to demonstrate the possibility of supersonic flight without the typical loud sonic booms.

Posted February 27, 2024

NASA Headquarters

Learning Resources

STEM Engagement at NASA

NASA Updates Equity Action Plan, Adds Focus on STEM Education, More

Lee esta nota de prensa en español aquí. NASA published its 2023 Equity Action Plan Wednesday, which outlines key accomplishments in increasing equity across the agency, and new commitments to continue removing inequitable barriers and challenges facing underserved communities.

Posted February 14, 2024

STEM Engagement at NASA

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

University High School Wins Regional Science Bowl at NASA’s JPL

After months of preparation, more than 100 students competed at the fast-paced annual academic competition hosted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For the second year in a row, a team from Irvine’s University High School claimed victory at a regional competition of the National Science Bowl, hosted Saturday, Feb.

Posted February 5, 2024

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

STEM Engagement at NASA

University High Wins L.A. Ocean Sciences Bowl at NASA’s JPL

The annual competition aims to help students expand their ocean-related knowledge outside the classroom and to become environmental stewards. University High School of Irvine, California, emerged victorious on Jan. 20 at the Los Angeles regional Ocean Sciences Bowl tournament, which NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory has hosted annually since 2000.

Posted January 22, 2024

STEM Engagement at NASA

International Space Station (ISS)

Boston Students to Hear from NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station

Students, staff, and researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and two local public schools in Boston will have an opportunity next week to hear from NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara aboard the International Space Station. The Earth-to-space call will air live at 9:55 a.m. EST Tuesday, Jan.

Posted January 19, 2024

Bob Hines

Jessica Watkins

Kjell N. Lindgren

STEM Engagement at NASA

Foggy Fun with STEM

On March 30, 2023, NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Jessica Watkins, and Robert Hines took part in STEM demonstrations with local students in Washington. Lindgren, Hines, and Watkins spent 170 days in space as part of Expeditions 67 and 68 aboard the International Space Station. While aboard, the crew studied ways to reverse the aging of […]

Posted January 3, 2024

ISS Research

General

International Space Station (ISS)

Kjell N. Lindgren

Space Communications & Navigation Program

Space Communications Technology

STEM Engagement at NASA

Ham Radio in Space: Engaging with Students Worldwide for 40 Years

In May 2018, a student at Mill Springs Academy in Alpharetta, Georgia, Andrew Maichle, talked to NASA astronaut Scott Tingle on the International Space Station via amateur or ham radio. The experience profoundly affected Maichle, who went on to study electrical engineering at Clemson University in South Carolina. “It was so cool to see in […]

Posted November 29, 2023