Today, NASA pauses to remember those who lost their lives while furthering the cause of exploration and discovery.
| | Find your place in space with a NASA internship. NASA offers several opportunities for students to undertake meaningful and challenging projects that truly make an impact on humanity.
Applications for Summer 2024 internships are due Friday, Feb. 2.
Click here to find available opportunities, frequently asked questions, and application details. | | Audience: Upcoming junior/senior undergraduate students and recent graduates Information Session: Application Deadline: Friday, Feb. 2 NASA’s Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) is a challenging 10-week experience at NASA’s Ames Research Center that pairs students with NASA scientists and engineers working on cutting-edge bioscience research. SLSTP Summer 2024 will include Ames Space Biology-related projects ranging from the effects of spaceflight on living systems to advanced biotechnologies to enable exploration of distant destinations. Applicants must be U.S. citizens who are at least 18 years old in high academic standing (GPA of 3.2 or higher). | | Audience: Academic institutions, entrepreneurs, and innovators ages 18 and above Registration Deadline: Thursday, Feb. 1, at 5 p.m. EST Contact: 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.
| | Upcoming Webinar Sessions | | Audience: Rural educators in the U.S. Event Date: Thursday, Feb. 1, at 8 p.m. EST What’s the big deal about Earth’s Moon? What would life be like without our favorite neighbor? Join NASA’s Science Mission Directorate for a monthly series that connects rural educators to resources, networking, and professional development opportunities. This month’s webinar will feature special guests Dr. Sharon Bowers and Joan Harper-Neely who will share NASA eClips resources and consider the importance of Earth’s Moon.
| | Audience: All educators, students, and caregivers Next Event Date: Thursday, Feb. 8, at 8 p.m. EST Join NASA’s Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission team for a series of webinars to celebrate ten years of Earth observations that have helped improve life around the globe and led to a better understanding of our water cycle. In the first webinar of the series, members of the GPM team will provide an overview of the mission’s science objectives, discuss the engineering behind the mission, and look ahead to the missions that will carry GPMs legacy forward.
| | Audience: Students in grades K-12 Entry Deadline: Friday, Feb. 9
The Power to Explore Student Challenge invites K-12 students to dream up a new space mission powered by a radioisotope power system (RPS) to a destination with limited light. The writing contest is open to individual students attending U.S. public, private, charter, or home schools – including those in U.S. territories and schools operated by the U.S. for American personnel overseas. Forty-five semifinalists will receive an RPS prize pack, nine finalists will receive an exclusive virtual session with a NASA expert, and three winners will be awarded a trip for two to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Every student who enters will receive an invitation to a virtual event with NASA experts to learn about what powers the NASA workforce to dream big and explore. | | Audience: Current high school sophomores and juniors who are U.S. citizens Application Deadline: Saturday, Feb. 24
NASA, the Texas Space Grant Consortium, and the University of Texas at Austin Center for Space Research have joined forces to encourage high school students’ interest in STEM careers.
The SEES project offers distance learning modules and guided remote work prior to onsite internships at the University of Texas in Austin in July and August 2024. Participants conduct authentic research while working with scientists and engineers in their chosen areas. Housing, meals, and activities will be provided. | | More Resources to Explore | | Audience: Educators, parents, caregivers, students
Connect classroom math and science skills to the day-to-day work of NASA scientists and engineers with a new collection of NASA CONNECTS resources. This compilation of middle school Space Communication and Navigation (SCaN) resources includes formal classroom activities, stand-alone worksheets, and other handouts. Topics include the electromagnetic spectrum, lasers and radios, waves, and satellites. Not a CONNECTS member? Sign up to join the community of practice to access these educational tools, view information about upcoming STEM events, and more. | | Opportunities With Our Partners | | Application Deadline: Thursday, Feb. 1 | | Application Deadline: Thursday, Feb. 15 | | Application Deadline: Sunday, March 31 | |
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: | | | | | | |
