NASA EXPRESS -- Your STEM Connection for April 14, 2022

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

‌ ‌ ‌ Celebrate World Quantum Day Today is World Quantum Day, a celebration aimed at promoting the public’s understanding of quantum science and technology. NASA uses quantum technology to support research and technology development across the agency. To celebrate World Quantum Day, Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) has released a new Quantum Code Crunchers activity for students to test out their binary coding skills. Can you help NASA crack the hidden code? NASA SpaceX Crew-4 Launching Soon NASA is targeting no earlier than 5:26 a.m. EDT on April 23 for the next launch to the International Space Station. The SpaceX Crew-4 mission will lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Commercial Crew STEM Mission Toolkit Build excitement for the SpaceX Crew-4 launch with the Commercial Crew STEM Mission Toolkit, a one-stop-shop resource filled with lesson plans, videos, and educational activities for K-12 students.   Find more ways to bring resources from Commercial Crew and the International Space Station into your classroom by visiting NASA’s STEM on Station website. Join NASA Virtually for the #Crew4 Launch Be a virtual guest for the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 mission.   Register to receive schedule updates and access to related activities and resources (including a boarding pass and a virtual passport stamp for email registrants). Organizations hosting launch-focused events, including school groups and museums, are also encouraged to register. STEM Webinars for Educators, Parents, Caregivers, and Students 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. Explore Earth: Our Unique Perspective April 18 at 6 p.m. EDT Aeronaut-X: Navigate Your Zone April 19 at 7 p.m. EDT Artemis Learning Pathway: Getting to the Moon April 20 at 7 p.m. EDT For a full list of upcoming webinars, click here. Register for NASA’s 2022 Virtual Earth Day Event Audience: All Educators, Students, Parents, and Caregivers Event Date: April 22, 10 a.m. - 7 p.m. EDT Contact: trena.m.ferrell@nasa.gov   Celebrate Earth during NASA’s 2022 Virtual Earth Day Event. The virtual event will feature live presentations and chats with NASA experts, interactive science content, a kids’ fun zone, a scavenger hunt, hundreds of downloadable resources, and more.   Registration is free and open to the public. Click here for more information. Content will be available on demand through May 2. New Student Q&A Opportunities: NASA’s “Groundlink” Program 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 members on a simulated journey to Mars.   NASA’s “Groundlink” 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 previous Groundlink episodes.   Do you know a student who has questions for analog crew members? Visit the HERA website for more information, and send your questions to the Groundlink program via email at jsc-askanalogs@mail.nasa.gov. NASA Opportunities for Higher Education OrbitCamp 2022 Audience: Undergraduate Students Event Dates: June 13-24 Contact: guzzetti@auburn.edu or kaela.martin@erau.edu   Are you interested in trajectory design in cislunar space? Learn how trajectory design works in the Earth-Moon system and multi-body gravity fields at OrbitCamp, an asynchronous series of free, online modules designed for participants who have taken an undergraduate orbital mechanics class but have little or no experience with gravitational multi-body dynamics. In addition to the self-guided modules, a series of live virtual events and seminars with experts will bring OrbitCamp participants together. Click here for more information and to register. FLOATing DRAGON Balloon Challenge Audience: Full-time or Part-Time Undergraduate and Graduate Students Notice of Intent Deadline: Sept. 15 Entry Deadline: Oct. 20 Contact: robin.ford@nianet.org   The FLOATing DRAGON (Formulate, Lift, Observe, and Testing: Data Recovery and Guided On-board Node) Balloon Challenge asks collegiate students to develop a concept and preliminary prototype for a system capable of delivering a data vault to the ground in a guided, safe manner. Four teams will be awarded $5,000 each to build their data recovery prototypes and conduct a test drop of their system in New Mexico in August 2023. The winning team may have an opportunity to integrate their system into official NASA development. Opportunities With Our Partners LEGO Build to Launch Nominated for People's Voice Webby Award Voting Ends April 21 at Midnight PDT U.S. Department of Education Webinar: Learning With NASA Is Out of This World April 26 at 1 p.m. EDT NOAA Planet Stewards: Project Funding Opportunity Application Deadline: June 5 at Midnight PDT 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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