Send your name to Jupiter's moon Europa by signing a poem by U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón that will travel aboard NASA's Europa Clipper spacecraft. Your name will be engraved on the spacecraft before it travels 1.8 billion miles on a mission to see if this ocean world has conditions to support life. Click here to add your name to the poem and create your own customizable souvenir artwork. | | Online Learning Opportunities | | Audience: All educators; students in grades 9-12 and higher education Event Date: Thursday, June 22, at 10 p.m. EDT The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) takes incredible images using infrared light. The optics and science instruments must be kept extremely cold, especially JWST’s Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI), which needs to be at a temperature of less than 7 kelvins, or -447 F. This is not possible without the Cryocooler, which keeps MIRI’s detectors cool.
Join JWST/MIRI Cryocooler team lead Dr. Konstantin Penanen to learn more about this incredibly cool device and how it works. | | Audience: Community college students who are U.S. citizens Application Deadline: Monday, June 26 NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) supports community college students seeking to transfer to a 4-year institution or go directly to the labor force by engaging them in authentic learning experiences. Applications for Mission 1: Discover are open now. Participants will take part in a five-week, self-paced online course featuring subject matter experts who introduce scholars to NASA missions and research dedicated to space exploration, technology, and aeronautics research. | | Educator Professional Development | | Audience: K-12 educators Event Date: Tuesday, June 27, at 7 p.m. EDT NASA’s aviation research includes designing, building, and flying experimental aircraft, which are often referred to as X-planes. These X-planes push the limits of what is technologically possible, with a major recent focus on making aviation more environmentally friendly. In this session, participants will learn about the various considerations factored into designing the next generation of sustainable aircraft. Through the Wingin’ It activity, participants will explore the impact of aircraft design on flight distance by testing designs of paper airplanes. The investigation will also include testing the effect of adding weight, as well as the distribution of that weight, on the flight distance of paper airplanes. Click here to register. | | Audience: K-12 educators Event Date: Thursday, June 29, at 7 p.m. EDT
In this session, we will explore the first activity in the guide, Slowing Down in Space. This activity focuses on NASA's efforts to find innovative solutions to the problem of delivering heavy payloads to Mars. Students are challenged to design a drag device system to slow the descent of a spacecraft.
The session will also look at The First Woman Graphic Novel series which tells the tale of Callie Rodriguez, the first woman to explore the Moon. Click here to register. | | NASA is seeking proposals for the 2023 NASA TEAM II Community Anchor Awards and Full Awards. Eligible proposers include U.S. nonprofit science museums, planetariums, youth-serving organizations, and libraries.
Selected parties will offer inquiry- or experiential-based opportunities that include NASA education and research and directly align with space exploration, aeronautics, space science, Earth science, or microgravity. Click here for the full announcement.
Prospective proposers are invited to an optional pre-proposal webinar on Thursday, June 29, at 12:30 p.m. EDT.
| | Opportunities With Our Partners | | Event Date: Saturday, June 24, 6 p.m. - 11 p.m. EDT | | Online Course Begins on Sept. 9 | | |
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: | | | | | | |
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