NASA 9-12 Education Programs

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    An intern works with electronic equipment as part of her research. Credit: NASA
    Students may explore and experience unique space and aeronautics content through NASA's education opportunities for students in grades 9-12. Learn about ways to interact with NASA engineers and scientists in the programs listed below.

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Program Descriptions

  • Alliance for Learning and Vision for Underrepresented Americans

    [Students Grade 12]
    [Available: Nationally]
    ALVA is a bridge project through a partnership between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Washington College of Engineering.

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  • Career Exploration Program

    [Students Grades 9-12 & Higher Education]
    [Available: Nationally]
    The Career Exploration Program is an internship experience offered at NASA's Johnson Space Center and White Sands Test Facility to high school, undergraduate and graduate students in science, engineering and business fields. Internships range from 10 weeks to a year long.

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  • Digital Learning Network

    [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.

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  • Dropping In a Microgravity Environment

    [Educators & Students Grades 6-12]
    [Available: Nationally]
    The DIME competition challenges student teams to design, build, and operate microgravity experiments in a NASA drop tower.

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  • Education Outreach Project at Johnson Space Center

    [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.

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  • Exploration Infusion

    [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.

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  • Explorers Post 633 -- Human Spaceflight

    [Students Grades 9-12]
    [Available: Ohio]
    This post will expose Explorers to various aspects of human, robotic and space exploration. This year, through hands-on activities, participants will explore the technology required to send astronauts to the moon. Explorers will discover what is required to ensure astronaut health in space.

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  • Exploring Project

    [Students Grades 9-12]
    [Available: OH]
    Exploring increases student awareness of aeronautics, computer technology, balloon satellites and careers in each field. Exploring involves students in the designing, building and testing of projects.

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  • FIRST Robotics

    [Students Grades 9-12]
    [Available: Nationally]
    The FIRST Robotics Competition is an exciting, multinational competition that teams professionals and young people to solve an engineering design problem in an intense and competitive way.

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  • Great Moonbuggy Race

    [Students Grades 9-Higher Education]
    [Available: Nationally]
    The Great Moonbuggy Race is an annual competition for students to design well-crafted vehicles to manipulate rugged simulated lunar terrain at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.

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  • High School Aerospace Scholars

    [Students Grade 11]
    [Available: TX]
    Funded by the Texas legislature, HAS is an interactive online learning experience highlighted by a weeklong program at Johnson Space Center. Selected students are encouraged to study math, science, engineering and computer science by interacting with engineers at JSC.

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  • Interdisciplinary National Science Project Incorporating Research and Education Experience

    [Students Grades 9-12 and Higher Education]
    [Available: Nationally]
    NASA will engage selected students in its mission through multiple experiences in hands-on activities and internships designed to maximize their involvement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, education.

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  • Kennedy Space Center Intern Project

    [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.

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  • Lewis' Educational & Research Collaborative Internship Project

    [Students Grades 12-Higher Education]
    [Available: Nationally]
    LERCIP provides students with introductory professional experiences to complement their academic programs and research interests under the guidance of a NASA mentor. The project provides students with summer internships at Glenn Research Center to learn about NASA and possible career choices.

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  • Lewis' Educational & Research Collaborative Internship Project: High School Project

    [Students Grades 10-11]
    [Available: OH]
    The LERCIP High School Project provides a summer learning opportunity for current 10th- and 11th-grade students who will be juniors and seniors in the upcoming school year and are interested in science, technology, engineering, math and professional administration.

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  • Morgan State University Summer Institute of Robotics

    [Students Grades 9-12]
    [Available: MD, PA, and NY]
    The purpose of this project is to increase the knowledge and understanding of the concepts and principles of robotics for urban high school students with an interest in careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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  • National Space Club Scholars

    [Students Grades 9-12]
    [Available: MD and VA]
    The summer intern project, for up to 30 high school students with space scientists and engineers, is sponsored by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., and NASA Wallops Flight Facility, Wallops Island, Va., in cooperation with the National Space Club.

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  • National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program

    [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.

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  • New Approach to Self-Achievement Project

    [Students Grades 7-8]
    [Available: OH]
    The N.A.S.A. Project is a three-week summer program that takes place July 10-31, 2010, for students attending Cleveland Metropolitan and Lorain County Schools who will be seventh- and eighth-graders in fall 2010.

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  • Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy

    [Students Grades K-12]
    [Available: CA, FL, GA, IN, MD, MI, NM, NY, NC, OH, SD, TN, TX, VA and WV]
    The NASA SEMAA project is comprised of three unique, core components that collectively engage K-12 students, parents and adult family members, and teachers in exciting science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, opportunities.

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  • Shadowing Project

    [Students Grades 9-12]
    [Available: OH]
    High school students can explore possible NASA-related careers from one day up to one week. Opportunities are available during the school year for students interested in science, engineering, technology, mathematics and professional administration.

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  • State of Florida Science & Engineering Fair Summer Intern

    [Students Grades 9-12]
    [Available: FL]
    The internship is available for one graduating high school senior with an outstanding science fair project competing in the Florida State Science & Engineering Fair. The student must also be planning to pursue a degree in a field such as engineering related to the Kennedy Space Center's mission.

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  • Student Launch Initiative

    [Students Grades 7-12]
    [Available: Nationally]
    NASA Student Launch Initiative, or SLI, challenges middle and high school students to design, build and launch a reusable rocket with a scientific or engineering payload to one mile above ground level, or AGL. The project engages students in scientific research and real-world engineering processes with NASA engineers.

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  • Student Temporary Employment Project

    [Students Grades 9-Higher Education]
    [Available: Nationally]
    STEP is a project designed to integrate the students' educational studies with a wide range of clerical, administrative, professional and technical experiences that support the agency.

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  • Student Volunteer Service Project

    [Students Grades 11-Higher Education]
    [Available: Nationally]
    The project involves students gaining work experience and knowledge in early career exploration.

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  • Teaching From Space

    [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.

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  • Virginia Summer Residential Governor's Schools

    [Students Grades 9-12]
    [Available: VA]
    Opportunities are provided for gifted students from public and private schools from across the Commonwealth of Virginia to explore professional and university environments through artistic and academic enrichment tailored to their aspirations, level of ability and depth of experience.

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