NASA EXPRESS -- Your STEM Connection for Sept. 11, 2025

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NASA STEM Engagement Send Your Name Around the Moon on Artemis II Four astronauts will embark on a 10-day mission to fly around the Moon next year. And your name can tag along for the ride! Registration is open to add your name to a memory card that will be stowed aboard the Orion spacecraft during the Artemis II mission. You can submit as many names as you want – including your family, friends, and even pets! Artemis II is an important step toward future lunar surface missions and will help NASA prepare to send American astronauts to Mars. Sign up to add your name and download your boarding pass for this trailblazing mission. Virtual Learning Opportunities Webinar Series: Teaching With EMERGE and GLOBE Mission Mosquito Webinar Dates: Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 6 p.m. ET Wednesday, Sept. 24, at 6 p.m. ET Contact: cassie_soeffing@strategies.org   Join the GLOBE Mission Mosquito team for a pair of free webinars designed for educators who want to bring coding and citizen science to their learners. Find out how GLOBE is teaming up with EMERGE, a Florida-based but widely adaptable project that turns data into insights about mosquito-borne disease risk.   Click here to learn more about the two sessions and to register to attend. NASA TechRise Student Challenge: Virtual Field Trip Event Date: Thursday, Sept. 25, at 2 p.m. ET Challenge Entry Deadline: Nov. 3 Contact: support@futureengineers.org   Join the NASA TechRise Virtual Field Trip to hear from Rob Ferl, the first NASA-supported researcher to fly with their payload on a suborbital rocket. Participate in a live Q&A session and learn about suborbital spacecraft, high-altitude balloons, and how your school can win $1500 by submitting an experiment idea to the NASA TechRise Student Challenge. No experience is necessary to join the challenge!   Click here to learn more and to RSVP to attend. Are You Up for a Challenge? 2026 NASA Lunabotics Challenge Registration Deadline: Sunday, Sept. 28 Contact: ksc-lunabotics@mail.nasa.gov   Lunabotics is a systems engineering design challenge that tasks student teams with developing a robot capable of performing construction operations that support future space exploration objectives. Teams from U.S. technical and vocational schools, colleges, and universities are eligible to participate.   Selected teams will be invited to put their robots to the test at a culminating event at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida in May 2026.   Click here for more information on Lunabotics and the 2026 challenge timeline. 2026 Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT) Next Information Session: Wednesday, Sept. 17, at 5 p.m. ET Letter of Intent Deadline: Tuesday, Oct. 7 Proposal Deadline: Tuesday, Oct. 28 Contact: jsc-reducedgravity@nasa.gov   Micro-g NExT challenges college and university student teams to design, build, and test a tool or device that addresses an authentic, current space exploration challenge. The overall experience includes hands-on engineering design, test operations, and public outreach.   This year’s Micro-g NExT challenges focus on tasks relating to extravehicular activities on the lunar surface and in microgravity at the International Space Station. Selected teams will be paired with a NASA mentor to assist them as they iterate on their submitted design. During the culminating event, professional divers will test the student prototypes in the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. Full challenge descriptions and requirements can be found on the Micro-g NExT website. Partner Opportunities World Space Week 2025: Living in Space Dates: Saturday, Oct. 4 - Friday, Oct. 10 Presidential Artificial Intelligence (AI) Challenge Entry Deadline: Jan. 20, 2026 Join HelioHub: A Higher Education and Early Career Community for Heliophysics Enthusiasts 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? Search hundreds of resources 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? Visit https://www.nasa.gov/get-involved/ to find ways to contribute to NASA’s work. 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