NASA EXPRESS -- Your STEM Connection for Feb. 15, 2024

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

‌ ‌ ‌ Surprisingly STEM: Astronaut Fitness Trainer Get your blood pumping with the latest "Surprisingly STEM" episode. Learn about Corey Twine’s journey from training athletes, to soldiers, to astronauts! To keep astronauts in shape during their missions, strength and conditioning coaches like Corey train the astronauts before and after they leave Earth. Want to train like an astronaut? Challenge yourself with this series of physical activities developed by fitness professionals working with astronauts. Stretch the story even farther by reading more about Corey's STEM journey. Celebrate Engineers Week: Feb. 18-24 From designing the most powerful rockets for deep space exploration to building instruments that can sniff out water on Mars, NASA engineers are pioneering new ways to discover the universe. Celebrate the third letter in STEM with these activities and resources: STEMonstrations: Engineering Design Process Video and Activity: Build a Rubber Band Powered Crawler Article: What Type of Engineering Is Right for You? Hands-on Activity: Spaghetti Anyone? Building With Pasta Online Game: NASA Climate Kids CubeSat Builder Find More Engineering Resources in the NASA STEM Search Funding Opportunities Make it NASA Solicitation Application Audience: Youth-serving organizations and formal/informal education institutions reaching U.S. students in grades 5-9 Proposal Deadline: Friday, March 1 Contact: grc-ed-opportunities@mail.nasa.gov   The Make it NASA project seeks to engage youth-serving organizations that support student populations typically underrepresented in STEM fields. Students will participate in hands-on activities enabling them to explore, learn, and create products relevant to NASA's current missions and research. Awarded collaborating organizations will receive professional development and help-desk support, opportunities for live virtual connections with NASA professionals, and up to $2,000 to implement the “Start Your Engines” activity with local students. Click here for full solicitation details. Call for Proposals: SMD Bridge Program Seed Funding Audience: Faculty at under-resourced institutions (URIs) Proposal Deadline:  Friday, March 29 Contact: padi.boyd@nasa.gov   NASA’s Science Mission Directorate (SMD) is seeking proposals for seed funding awards to provide support for faculty investigators and their students to carry out NASA-relevant research. The goal of the SMD Bridge Program is to develop sustainable partnerships among institutions historically under-resourced by NASA, such as Minority Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Tribal Colleges and Universities, and others. Each award is expected to have a budget of up to $300,000 for a duration of 24 months. Click here to see full proposal guidelines. More Ways to Get Involved NASA's Astrophoto Challenge: Winter 2024 Audience: Astronomy enthusiasts of all ages Entry Deadline: Thursday, Feb. 29 Contact: mdussault@cfa.harvard.edu   Join NASA's Universe of Learning for an exciting opportunity to use real astronomical data and tools to create your own beautiful images of the Crab Nebula. Explore how this dynamic dead star behaves across different types of light and how it is changing with time. Capture your own real-time telescope image using the MicroObservatory robotic telescope network. Or work with archival data files taken with multi-wavelength missions from NASA, the European Space Agency, and the Canadian Space Agency (Webb, Hubble, Chandra, and XMM-Newton). NASA experts may comment on creations highlighted as standout entries. 2024 RASC-AL Competition Audience: Undergraduate and graduate students attending accredited U.S.-based colleges and universities Entry Deadline: Thursday, March 7 Contact: rascal@nianet.org   The 2024 RASC-AL competition invites university teams to develop new concepts that leverage innovation to improve our ability to operate on the Moon, Mars, and beyond. This year’s themes range from developing large-scale lunar surface architectures enabling long-term off-world habitation, to designing new systems that leverage in-situ resources for in-space travel and exploration. Up to 14 teams may be chosen to present their concepts at the 2024 RASC-AL Forum in Cocoa Beach, Florida. Each team will receive a monetary award to facilitate full participation in the RASC-AL Forum competition.  Opportunities With Our Partners StarNet Webinar – Eclipse Outreach: Role Model Strategies for Engaging Youth in STEM Event Date: Thursday, Feb. 15, at 1 p.m. EST EclipseEd Webinar: Illuminating Learning Paths for the April 8 Total Solar Eclipse Event Date: April 3 at 1:30 p.m. EST Save the Date: National STEM Festival in Washington, D.C. Event Dates: April 11-13 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/learning-resources/search/. 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:  NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement: https://stem.nasa.gov  NASA Kids’ Club: https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub

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