Make your own paper airplane version of the X-59 Quesst supersonic aircraft. | | Audience: Community college students who are U.S. citizens Next Information Session: Wednesday, June 5, at 5 p.m. EDT Application Deadline: June 10 NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars (NCAS) supports community college students seeking to transfer to a four-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 introducing scholars to NASA missions and research.
Click here for full eligibility and application details, as well as instructions to join upcoming information sessions. | | Audience: Principal investigators, researchers and postdoctoral scholars Application Deadline: Friday, June 28 Spaceflight Technology, Applications, and Research (STAR) is a virtual, international NASA training course in space biosciences. The annual course targets principal investigators, senior research scientists, and postdoctoral scholars. Its purpose is to facilitate participants’ entry to space biology and to prepare them for conducting spaceflight experiments using NASA and commercial platforms. The course curriculum includes space biology and its practical applications. Participants will have opportunities to interact with principal investigators with prior mission experience, developers of spaceflight technology, and flight providers. The STAR-5 Course will take place virtually between September 2024 and February 2025 and will consist of weekly virtual seminars on Tuesdays, 11 a.m. - 1 p.m. ET. | | Audience: Graduate students and Ph.D. scientists Application Deadline: Monday, July 1, at 6 p.m. EDT The NASA Postdoctoral Program offers early career and senior scientists one- to three-year fellowships with NASA scientists and engineers. Opportunities relate to missions in Earth science, heliophysics, planetary science, astrophysics, space bioscience, aeronautics, engineering, human exploration and space operations, astrobiology, and science management. Applicants must have completed a doctorate or an equivalent degree before beginning the fellowship, but they may apply while completing degree requirements. | | Audience: Undergraduate students Application Deadline: Friday, July 26 NASA's Psyche mission invites full-time, enrolled undergraduate students majoring in any subject at universities and community colleges in the U.S. and its territories to apply to become part of this year’s cohort of Psyche Inspired interns. Psyche Inspired brings undergraduate students together to share the excitement, innovation, and scientific and engineering content of NASA’s Psyche mission with the public through artistic and creative works. | | Opportunities for Grades K-12 | | Audience: Formal and informal educators of grades 6-12 Handbook Release: Aug. 1 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) is an engineering design competition where students design, build, and test a rover to traverse challenging terrains while completing scientific tasks along the way. As an Artemis Student Challenge, HERC draws inspiration from both the Apollo and Artemis missions, emphasizing designing, constructing, and testing technologies. The 2025 HERC activity year will be open to proposal submissions from teams of students in grades 6-12. The 2025 HERC Handbook and Request for Proposals will be released on August 1. Email the HERC Implementation Team at HERC@mail.nasa.gov for more information about how your students can be a part of this exciting STEM challenge. | | Audience: Teams of students in grades 8-12 Proposal Deadline: Oct. 31 Student teams are invited to design and build paddle wheels that will turn in water because of the wetting properties of their surfaces when they are exposed to microgravity. Paddle wheels from selected teams will be tested in the 2.2 Second Drop Tower at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. Top performing teams will have the opportunity to present their results in a student poster session at the 2025 meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research.
Click here for competition details and eligibility requirements. | | Opportunities With Our Partners | | Event Date: Friday, May 24, at noon EDT | | | |
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