Fictional astronaut Callie Rodriguez is back in a new issue of NASA’s First Woman graphic novel series. Now available digitally in English and Spanish, “First Woman: Expanding Our Universe,” follows Callie and her crewmates as they work together to explore the unknown, make scientific discoveries, and accomplish their mission objectives.
Make a STEM connection to Callie's adventures with the First Woman Camp Experience. Intended for use in K-12 informal education settings such as after-school programs, summer camps, STEM nights, and weekend workshops, this set of hands-on activities are the perfect accompaniment to the graphic novels. | | Coming Up Later This Month | | Mark your calendar to stay up to date with these upcoming events to make timely STEM connections!
Wednesday, Nov. 8: Celebrate National STEM Day with NASA resources for the classroom and beyond Wednesday, Nov. 8, and Wednesday, Nov. 15: Watch astronauts on the space station answer student questions during live in-flight downlinks Friday, Nov. 24: Instead of hunting for shopping deals, celebrate Black Hole Friday by searching for fun facts about these mysterious objects | | | 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 to explore Europa, an ocean world, to see if it has conditions to support life. Click here to add your name to the poem and create your own customizable souvenir artwork. | | Connect With Astronauts on the Space Station | | Audience: U.S. educators, informal institutions, and youth organizations Proposal Deadline: Friday, Nov. 10 ARISS-US is accepting proposals from U.S. schools, museums, and community youth organizations (working individually or together) to host an amateur radio contact with an astronaut aboard the International Space Station between July 1 and Dec. 31, 2024. To maximize these events, ARISS-US is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan. Radio contacts are approximately 10 minutes.
| | Audience: U.S. educators and administrators Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, Nov. 14
NASA Next Gen STEM is accepting proposals for U.S.-based education organizations to host a downlink during International Space Station Expedition 71, which runs March to September 2024. In-flight education downlinks are 20-minute live video Q&A opportunities for students and educators to interact with astronauts aboard the station. | | Are You Up for a Challenge? | | Audience: U.S. accredited educational institutions and nonprofit organizations Proposal Deadline: Friday, Nov. 17, at 5 p.m. EST NASA is seeking proposals for CubeSat payloads in the 1U-12U size range looking to launch between 2025-2028. The CubeSat Launch Initiative gives students, teachers, and faculty a chance to get hands-on flight hardware development experience. Proposed CubeSat investigations must advance NASA’s strategic goals in the areas of STEM engagement, science, technology development/demonstration, or NASA workforce development. | | Audience: Academic institutions, entrepreneurs, and innovators ages 18+ Registration Deadline: 5 p.m. EST on Feb. 1, 2024 As NASA increases the use of commercial vehicles to explore the unknown, the agency seeks to find a reliable process to ensure payloads can properly interface with host vehicles.
The NASA TechLeap Prize’s Universal Payload Interface Challenge invites applicants to propose an optimized “system of systems” to enable easy integration of diverse technology payloads onto various commercial suborbital vehicles, orbital platforms, and planetary landers. The proposed universal payload interfaces should seamlessly adapt a wide range of small space payloads – such as technologies, laboratory instruments, and scientific experiments – for flight testing. | | Opportunities With Our Partners | | Webinar Dates: Tuesday, Nov. 7, and Thursday, Nov. 9 | | Application Deadline: Friday, Dec. 1 | | Nomination Deadline: Jan. 8, 2024 | |
Are you looking for NASA STEM materials to support your curriculum?
Find NASA science resources for your classroom. The NASA Science Activation (SciAct) program connects diverse learners of all ages with science in ways that activate minds and promote a deeper understanding of our world and beyond. https://science.nasa.gov/learn
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: | | | | | | |
