Stars, galaxies, nebulae – oh my! What will NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveal when it peers back through 13.5 billion years of time? Create, using any form of art, what you think the Webb Telescope will discover for a chance to be featured on NASA's historic launch broadcast.
| | NASA and Future Engineers are challenging young innovators to help design a new robot concept for an excavation mission on the Moon. The Lunabotics Junior Contest is open to K-12 students in U.S. public and private schools, as well as home-schoolers. Entries are due Jan. 25, 2022. | | In this week’s episode of Build To Launch, the team learns how the Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft will be transported to the launch site. Plus, Daniel Florez, a test director for NASA’s Exploration Ground Systems program, shares what it’s like to be part of the team that keeps things going smoothly on the ground. Did you miss last week’s episode? Click here to catch up and get the latest Build To Launch resources for this 10-week interactive digital learning adventure. | | Join the NASA STEM Engagement & Educator Professional Development | | | | Oct. 26 at 7:30 p.m. EDT | | | Audience: Students Ages 13+ Event Date: Oct. 27 at 2 p.m. EDT
“NASA STEM Stars” en Español is part of a webchat series that connects students with subject matter experts to learn about STEM careers and ask questions about STEM topics. Join mechanical engineer Roberto Navarro from NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in California to learn about his STEM journey. Find out more about NASA’s aeronautics research to improve flight capabilities, including aircraft that can take off and land from any spot or hover in one place. Watch the live event, presented in Spanish, and ask your questions about pursuing careers in STEM. | | Audience: Educators, Parents, Caregivers, and Students in High School and College Event Date: Oct. 28 at 7 p.m. EDT The Lunar and Planetary Institute invites you to attend a free, virtual panel discussion featuring planetary scientists who will discuss their research into brines and answer your questions. Learn where we’re studying salty water in our solar system and how it affects those bodies and connections to life. | | Audience: Educators, Parents, Caregivers, and Students in High School and College Event Date: Oct. 28 at 8 p.m. EDT Join Dr. Walter Kiefer, the associate director of the Lunar and Planetary Institute, for a webinar about the James Webb Space Telescope. Webb will be the largest, most powerful, and complex space telescope ever built and launched into space. Explore the plans for the mission, its unique capabilities, and the mysteries that it will illuminate. | | Audience: All Educators, Students, Parents and Caregivers Event Date: Oct. 28 at 9 p.m. EDT
Join the NASA Night Sky Network for a webinar featuring Dr. Robert Zellem from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California. Hear how astronomers discover and characterize exoplanets — planets outside our solar system. Amateur astronomers can help scientists study exoplanets by observing them with their own telescopes and cameras, and participating in the citizen science project Exoplanet Watch. | | Audience: Formal and Informal Educators, Grades 3-12 Help your Earth science students see beyond the obvious and develop awareness of the underlying causes, relationships, and/or conditions that can contribute to phenomenological events. Encourage visual learning for digging deeper into phenomena-driven lessons in Earth science with iceberg diagrams from My NASA Data. These easy-to-use frameworks are available in multiple formats for in-person and virtual learning. | | Audience: All Educators, Students, Parents and Caregivers Have you ever wondered what it would be like to hold a dead star or supernova in your hand? The Chandra X-ray Observatory team has resources to help you 3D-print these things and more. Modeling objects in our universe in 3D offers a unique tool to understand scientific data. Visit the website to find interactive visualizations, background information and downloadable 3D files to print at your home, school, library, or other makerspace. | | Opportunities With Our Partners | | Registration Deadline: Oct. 29 | | | | Audience: Postdoctoral Researchers Proposal Deadline: Jan. 20, 2022 TRISH (Translational Research Institute for Space Health) at Baylor College of Medicine is soliciting proposals from postdoctoral researchers to help solve the health challenges of human deep space exploration. TRISH’s postdoctoral fellowship program supports early career scientists pursuing innovative, breakthrough research with the potential to reduce health risks associated with spaceflight and improve astronaut performance. Applicants must submit research proposals with an identified mentor and institution. Potential mentors seeking a postdoctoral fellow may notify TRISH via email. TRISH will post the list of perspective mentors to help trainees match with a lab. | |
Are you looking for NASA STEM materials to support your curriculum?
Find NASA science resources for your classroom. NASA Wavelength is a digital collection of Earth and space science resources for educators of all levels — from elementary to college, to out-of-school programs. https://science.nasa.gov/learners/wavelength
Check out the ‘Explore NASA Science’ website! Science starts with questions, leading to discoveries. Visit science.nasa.gov. To view the site in Spanish, visit ciencia.nasa.gov. | | Visit NASA STEM Engagement on the Web: | | | | | | |
