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Exploring is a worksite-based program. It is part of Learning for Life's career education program for young men and women who are 14 (and have completed the eighth grade) through 20 years old.
Image to right: Students participate in Exploring Program. Credit: NASA
Exploring's purpose is to provide experiences that help young people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults. Explorers are ready to investigate the meaning of interdependence in their personal relationships and communities. Exploring is based on a unique and dynamic relationship between youth and the organizations in their communities.
Local community organizations initiate a specific Explorer post by matching their people and program resources to the interests of young people in the community.
The result is a program of activities that helps youth pursue their special interests, grow, and develop.
Exploring programs are based on five areas of emphasis: career opportunities, life skills, service learning, character education, and leadership experience.
NASA Glenn Research Center collaborates with the Boy Scouts of America to provide the Glenn Explorer program. Activity groups led by Glenn volunteers who serve as Exploring Advisors, meet one weekday evening a week from October through April to work on group projects.
The Explorers Program consists of Aeronautics Activities, Computer Technology, Human Space Flight and Balloon Satellite Technology.
For example, Post 632 - This post has a goal to build, test, launch to 100,000 ft and recover, a payload. Students will have a chance to develop and fly payloads for a flight mission like that of a sounding rocket. They will learn about the atmosphere, experiment design, electronics and communications associated with the mission. They will develop and fly a BalloonSat payload into the mid stratosphere, nearly 20 miles above the ground. Learn more about this post at this url: http://explorersposts.grc.nasa.gov/post632.
For more information on the complete program visit the Explorers Posts website at http://explorersposts.grc.nasa.gov.
Application for 2008 - 2009 Program
The NASA Exploring Program application can be downloaded in this PDF Version.
NASA Glenn Educational Programs Office Contact:
Stephanie Brown-Houston
Phone: (216) 433-8006
E-mail: sdbrown-houston@grc.nasa.gov