[Educators Grades K-Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
AESP is a comprehensive project designed to reach out to the formal and informal education communities in all fifty states and the U.S. territories.
[Educators Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
The Center for Astronomy Education is a professional development project for instructors of the introductory astronomy course, with emphasis on community colleges.
[Faculty Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
The CIPAIR project assists two- and four-year minority institutions with strengthening their science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, academic fields and technical programs.
[Educators and Students Grades K-Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
DLN offers videoconferencing or Webcasting at no charge, providing interactive educational experiences to students and educators from kindergarten to university levels across the Nation and around the world.
[Educators Grades K-Higher Education & Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
Education Associates is a flexible year-round project that permits NASA scientists, engineers and managers to "tap higher education," while giving university students and faculty the opportunity to "experience NASA."
[Educators & Students Grades K-Higher Education]
[Available: TX]
Volunteers participate in various outreach opportunities, including lecturing or performing hands-on activities in the classroom, career shadowing, tutoring, mentoring and judging science fairs. Students must live within a 50-mile radius of JSC.
[Educators & Students Grades 5-12]
[Available: Nationally]
The Engineering Design Challenges Project connects students in their classrooms with the challenges faced by NASA engineers as they design the next generation of space vehicles, habitats and technology. Middle and high school students work on design challenges with their teachers. These challenges help students achieve national goals in science, mathematics and thinking skills.
[Faculty Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
This Exploration System Mission Directorate project provides two opportunities for faculty to work in the summer at a NASA field center gathering senior design project ideas and internship opportunities or to create a senior design course in conjunction with a current ESMD-NASA researcher.
[Faculty Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
EPSCoR provides jurisdictions of modest research infrastructure with funds to develop a more competitive research base within their jurisdiction and member academic institutions.
[Educators & Students Grades K-12]
[Available: LA and MS]
NASA curriculum materials in science, technology, engineering and mathematics are used to engage the education communities of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and the Gulf Coast Education Initiative Consortium.
[Educators & Students Grades 9-Higher Education]
[Available: MD]
Eyes on the Sky is a public lecture series featuring leading scientists and NASA's cutting edge scientific endeavors to answer some of the most profound questions about our universe.
[Faculty & Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
Faculty and students from various colleges and universities partner with GSFC to work with Exploration Systems Mission Directorate, or ESMD, projects both during the summer and during the academic year.
[Educators & Students Grades 9-12]
[Available: CA]
The activity is a sequential experience using the process of spaceflight mission conceptualization, design, fabrication, operations and data analysis.
[Faculty & Students Grades 9-Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
The goal of the KIP project is to provide students and faculty the opportunity to gain valuable work experience related to their academic studies, while gaining knowledge of KSC's mission.
[Educators Grades Pre-K-Higher Education & Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
Participants spend 10 weeks conducting state-of-the-art research with other students from across the nation. They work with NASA researchers exploring an array of high-technology development projects and activities in pursuit of space exploration.
[Educators Grades K-Higher Education & Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
This educational project offers opportunities for college sophomores through doctoral candidates. LERCIP provides students with introductory professional experiences to complement their academic programs and research interests under the guidance of a Glenn Research Center scientist or engineer.
[Educators & Students Grades 6-8]
[Available: TX]
MAS gives teams of middle school teachers from across the state of Texas an opportunity to participate in a unique professional development project.
[Faculty Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
The NAFP enhances the professional development of NASA employees and faculty from Minority Institutions, or MIs, and builds and strengthens the science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, infrastructure of MIs.
[Educators Grades 4-9]
[Available: Nationally]
Schools from across the country are eligible to apply online for an opportunity to partner with NASA in a project designed to bring engaging mathematics, science and technology learning to educators, students and families.
[Faculty & Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
NMB was developed to involve nonengineering students from U.S. colleges or universities in NASA projects. Each year, participants in NMB compete by drafting a business plan for a future NASA mission.
[Faculty Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
NPP is a national competition to identify outstanding recent postdoctoral scientists and engineers and experienced senior scientists and engineers for tenure as guest researchers at NASA centers.
[Faculty and Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
This program provides NASA funding for space-related research, education and public service projects through a national network of 52 university-based Space Grant consortia.
[Educators Grades K-8 & Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
PSTP gives pre-service teachers and faculty members opportunities to enhance their knowledge and skill in teaching mathematics and science by using technology at the elementary and middle school levels.
[Educators & Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
This reduced-gravity project provides a unique academic experience for undergraduate students to successfully propose, design, fabricate, fly and evaluate a reduced-gravity experiment of their choice over the course of six months. The overall experience includes scientific research, hands-on experimental design, test operations, and educational and public outreach activities.
[Educators Grades 5-8 & Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
Spaceward Bound trains the next generation of space explorers by having students and teachers explore scientifically interesting -- but remote and extreme -- environments on Earth as analogs for human exploration of the moon and Mars.
[Faculty Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
The fellowships provide science and engineering faculty members with an opportunity to increase their professional knowledge, contribute to NASA research projects, and strengthen the relationship between Johnson Space Center and the academic community through a summer work experience at JSC.
[Educators & Students Grades K-12]
[Available: Nationally]
TFS uses the unique environment of human spaceflight to facilitate education opportunities that support science, mathematics, engineering and technology instructional materials through on-orbit education downlinks, demonstration activities and payloads.
[Faculty & Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
Student and faculty teams research opportunities to gain hands-on experience in their NASA-related field of study.
[Faculty and Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
URC's are multidisciplinary research units established at minority institutions to focus on a specific area of NASA interest.
[Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
The NASA University Student Launch Initiative challenges university student teams to design, build and fly a reusable rocket with scientific payload to one mile in altitude. The competition engages students in scientific research and real-world engineering processes with NASA engineers.
[Educators & Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
The Visiting Researcher Exchange and Outreach project is a collaboration between the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Academic Affairs Office and the Universities Space Research Association. The project is designed to stimulate involvement of university, private sector and government agency researchers with NASA.
[Educators K-Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
The Workforce Coalition task force will use a systems approach to engage community stakeholders in facilitating partnerships to build skills needed for the workforce.