NASA EXPRESS -- Your STEM Connection for Jan. 13, 2022

Check out the latest NASA opportunities for educators, students and families.

‌ ‌ ‌ New Student Q&A Opportunities: NASA’s “Groundlinks” What’s it like to go on a mission into deep space without leaving Earth? Students anywhere around the world can now directly ask questions to crew who are simulating a journey to Mars.   NASA’s new “Groundlinks” program connects students with crew members currently inside NASA’s Human Exploration Research Analog, or HERA, a habitat housed at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Through the crew’s answers, students can learn more about how NASA prepares humans to live and work in space.   Click here to watch the first Groundlinks episode, featuring HERA crew members Christopher Roberts and Madelyne Willis. NASA GLOBE Cloud Challenge 2022 Did you know that clouds can both warm and cool the planet? Keeping an eye on clouds helps NASA study our climate. The GLOBE (Global Learning and Observations to Benefit the Environment) program is inviting citizen scientists to contribute their local cloud data to this effort during the NASA GLOBE Cloud Challenge 2022: Clouds in a Changing Climate. Cloud observers of all ages around the world are invited to join the challenge, Jan. 15 - Feb. 15. Click here to learn more, including how to join a family-friendly kick-off webinar hosted by the Los Angeles Public Library tonight at 8 p.m. EST. STEM Webinars for Educators, Students, Parents, and Caregivers Join the NASA STEM Engagement & Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University for educator professional development webinars. Attendees earn a certificate that can be submitted for professional development hours. Virtual Learning and Digital Badging Jan. 18 at 5 p.m. EST Space Launch System in the Classroom Jan. 19 at 7 p.m. EST Marsbound: Mission to the Red Planet Jan. 20 at 5 p.m. EST For a full list of upcoming webinars, click here. NASA Aeronautics Advanced Air Mobility Academy: The Science Behind Quadcopters Audience: Educators and Students in Grades 6-12 Event Date: Jan. 19 at Noon EST Contact: jamie.m.turner@nasa.gov   Join NASA Aeronautics for the next in a series of virtual classroom events. Advanced Air Mobility Academy is an online learning opportunity led by a NASA subject matter expert. Learn about advanced air mobility principles with hands-on STEM activities. This month, explore the science behind quadcopters and how the forces created are used to control movement. Click here to register. NASA Opportunities for Higher Education 2022 NASA Student Airborne Research Program Audience: Undergraduate Students Currently in Their Junior Year Application Deadline: Jan. 26 Contact: nasasarp@baeri.org The NASA Student Airborne Research Program is an eight-week summer internship for rising senior undergraduate students. The program provides students with hands-on research experience in all aspects of a scientific campaign on one or more of the NASA Airborne Science Program’s flying science laboratories. Participants will help operate aircraft instruments to sample atmospheric gases and/or to image land and water surfaces in multiple spectral bands. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. Participants receive a stipend, and travel/living expenses are covered. 2022 NASA Student Airborne Science Activation Program Audience: Undergraduate Students Currently in Their Freshman or Sophomore Year Application Deadline: Jan. 31 Contact: arc-sasa@mail.nasa.gov The NASA Student Airborne Science Activation (SaSa) program invites highly-motivated rising sophomore and rising junior undergraduate students to participate in an eight-week summer research experience. The program provides students with hands-on research experience in all components of a scientific campaign, including flying onboard the NASA P-3 research aircraft to collect land, ocean, and atmospheric measurements. Participants receive a stipend, and travel/living expenses are covered. Call for Proposals: Future Investigator in NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology Audience: Researchers, Graduate Students, and Ph.D. Scientists Proposal Deadline: Feb. 11 Contact: HQ-FINESST@mail.nasa.gov   NASA’s Science Mission Directorate seeks proposals from accredited U.S. universities for research grants to begin in the 2022-23 academic year. Each proposal must identify a master’s or doctoral degree student participant in eligible Earth and space sciences as the future investigator. Projects may propose up to a three-year period of performance. Visit the website for details and proposal requirements. New STEM Teaching Resources to Explore My NASA Data Activity and Lesson Plan: Feeling the Heat Audience: Formal and Informal Educators, Grades 3-12 Contact: larc-mynasadata@mail.nasa.gov What can NASA data teach your students about climate change? My NASA Data has teamed up with Data Classroom for a new digital data skills activity and lesson plan. Students can easily graph and analyze real NASA climate data from nine locations around the globe, going back to the year 1880. Click here to get started.  Classroom Activity: Studying Rocks on Mars Using Light Audience: Formal and Informal Educators, Grades 9-12 Robotic rovers on Mars use spectroscopy – the study of light – to analyze the elements that make up rock samples on the Red Planet. In this activity, students use a similar process to perform a spectral analysis on their own rock samples. Classroom Activity: Math of the Expanding Universe Audience: Formal and Informal Educators, Grades 9-12 In this activity, students will learn about the expanding universe and the redshift of lightwaves. They will then calculate the redshift of a supernova, determine its velocity relative to Earth, and find the distance to that object. Opportunities With Our Partners Department of Education Webinar: Think Globally, Teach Locally Event Date: Jan. 19 at 1:30 p.m. EST Department of Energy: 2022 High Performance Computing Summer Internships  Application Deadline: Jan. 25 National Nuclear Security Administration Minority Serving Institutions Internship Application Deadline: Feb. 1 Want to subscribe to get this message delivered to your inbox each Thursday? Sign up for the NASA EXPRESS newsletter at https://www.nasa.gov/stem/express. Are you looking for NASA STEM materials to support your curriculum? Search hundreds of resources by subject, grade level, type and keyword at https://www.nasa.gov/education/materials/. 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:  NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement: https://stem.nasa.gov  NASA Kids’ Club: https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub

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