NASA EXPRESS -- Your STEM Connection for Dec. 19, 2024

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

NASA STEM Engagement Make a STEM Connection: Parker Solar Probe's Closest Approach to the Sun On Tuesday, Dec, 24, NASA's Parker Solar Probe will make the first of three final close approaches in its primary mission. This Christmas Eve approach will bring the probe within 3.8 million miles of the Sun's surface. And the spacecraft will reach speeds that would take it from New York to Washington D.C. in just one second! Make a STEM connection to this record-breaking milestone with these resources. NASA Knows Article: What Are Solar Phenomena? NASA Space Place: All About the Sun Closest Approach Celebration Kit Explore Space Weather Activities Build a Parker Solar Probe Paper Model 3D Print a Model of NASA's Parker Solar Probe NASA Science Live: Voyage to the Sun Parker Solar Probe Visit the NASA STEM Search for more STEM resources about the Sun. Webinar for Prospective NASA Interns Launch Your Future: NASA Internships Virtual Webinar Audience: High school and college students Event Date: Thursday, Jan. 23, 2025, at 4 p.m. EST Contact: nasa-internships@mail.nasa.gov   Are you interested in a NASA internship? Join the NASA internship team for an interactive webinar to explore internship opportunities and learn about eligibility and application requirements. Learn firsthand from current interns and get tips on how to make your application stand out. Whether you’re a high school or college student, this session will guide you through what you need to know to kickstart your NASA journey. Click here to register. Opportunities for Grades 5-12 Student Suborbital Flight Opportunity – Cubes in Space Audience: Educators (formal, informal, home-school) of students ages 11-18 Registration Deadline: Feb. 17, 2025 Contact: info@cubesinspace.com   NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and iEDU Inc. invite educators to register for the free Cubes in Space program. Participants receive a course of activities that guide students to design experiments or technologies that connect to a real-world Earth or space-based problem or need. Selected experiments will be launched via a sounding rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia as part of RockSat-C in late June 2025, or from a high-altitude scientific balloon in New Mexico by NASA’s Balloon Program Office in late August 2025. Joint Polar Satellite System STEM Activity: Where in the World is Leo DelMar – An Oceanic Mystery Audience: General public, grades 5-12 students and teachers   NOAA and NASA’s Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) satellites help observe Earth’s ocean. These observations include sea surface temperatures, ocean color, cloud cover, and even infrared imaging that can be used to spot illegal fishing vessels.   In this escape room-style activity, students use clues - plus JPSS maps, data, and imagery - to solve the mystery of a missing person. Students will be introduced to real satellite imagery of the ocean and test their graph reading skills. Are You Up for a Challenge? NASA's Astrophoto Challenge: Winter 2025 Audience: Astronomy enthusiasts of all ages Entry Deadline: Feb. 28, 2025 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. This winter, explore the Cartwheel and Andromeda galaxies, two examples of galaxies that have undergone dramatic interactions with other galaxies. Capture your own real-time telescope image using the MicroObservatory robotic telescope network. Or work with archival data files taken with multi-wavelength NASA missions from NASA (Webb, Hubble, Chandra, GALEX, and WISE).   Need inspiration? Click here to see the standout entries from the Summer 2024 NASA Astrophoto Challenge. NASA TechLeap Prize – Space Technology Payload Challenge Audience: Undergraduate and graduate STEM students, and individuals ages 18+ Registration Deadline: March 4, 2025 Application Deadline: March 20, 2025 Contact: questions@nasatechleap.org   Managed by NASA's Flight Opportunities program, this challenge seeks ideas for systems that advance technology to address one or more of NASA’s shortfalls. NASA intends to award up to nine prizes worth up to $500,000 each plus the opportunity for a flight test aboard a suborbital vehicle, rocket-powered lander, high-altitude balloon, aircraft following a reduced gravity profile (i.e., parabolic flight), or orbital vehicle that can host payloads. Visit the challenge website to read the application requirements, rules, technical guidelines, and scoring rubric that will be used to assess all valid applications. Funding Opportunities Call for Proposals — Notice of Funding Opportunity for NASA MUREP Aeronautics Community and Environmental Impact Research (MUREP ACEIR) Audience: Four-year colleges/universities and two-year colleges designated as Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) Next Pre-proposal Webinar: Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025, at 3 p.m. EST Proposal Deadline: March 3, 2025 Contact: NASAACEIR@nasaprs.com   NASA's Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) is accepting proposals from MSIs to conduct interdisciplinary research into the environmental and societal impacts of future air transportation technology and infrastructure on overburdened communities through development of practices and radical innovation. Successful MUREP ACEIR proposals will be funded as multi-year cooperative agreements with a three-year period of performance. Please see the full Appendix 16: MUREP ACEIR for more details. Opportunities With Our Partners Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching Nomination Deadline: Monday, Jan. 6, 2025 Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum: Teacher Innovator Institute Application Deadline: Monday, Jan. 20, 2025 NOAA Education Multimedia Needs Assessment Survey Open Now 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/learning-resources/nasa-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. Check out the ‘Science for Everyone’ website! Science starts with questions, leading to discoveries. Visit https://science.nasa.gov/for-everyone. To view the site in Spanish, visit https://ciencia.nasa.gov. Are you looking for more NASA prizes, challenges, and crowdsourcing opportunities? 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