Marshall Space Flight Center - Informal Education Opportunities

    NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center Informal Education team is responsible for using NASA's unique assets to support all types of learning by collaborating with non-profit educational organizations and business partners. The projects listed below identify which projects are available for the Informal community. Click "Find out more" for further details and contact information.

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Informal Education Project Descriptions

  • Aerospace Education Services Project

    [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 50 states and the U.S. territories.

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  • Astro Camp

    [Students Grades K-8]
    [Available: Nationally]
    Astro Camp is an exciting, week-long mission for children located in Bay St. Louis, MS. Each year, it has activities centered around a new space exploration theme.

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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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  • Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research

    [Faculty Higher Education]
    [Available: Nationally]
    Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research, or EPSCoR, establishes partnerships with government, higher education and industry that are designed to effect lasting improvements in a state's or region's research infrastructure, R&D capacity and hence, its national R&D competitiveness.

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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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  • 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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  • NASA Explorer Schools

    [Educators Grades 4-12]
    [Available: Nationally]
    The NES Project is NASA's classroom-based gateway for middle and high school students in grades 4-12. The project provides unique learning experiences designed around NASA's missions while promoting student engagement in science, technology, engineering and mathematics based on NASA’s resources.

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  • NASA Innovations in Climate Education

    [Educators Grades K-Higher Education]
    [Available: Nationally]
    NASA Innovations in Climate Education, or NICE, is designed to improve the quality of the nation's STEM education and enhance students' and teachers' literacy about global climate and Earth system change, from elementary grades to lifelong learners.

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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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  • 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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  • Summer of Innovation

    [Educators Grades 4-9]
    [Available: Nationally]
    NASA's Summer of Innovation, or SoI, leverages current NASA research and discovery as a powerful context for student learning. The Summer of Innovation inspires middle school students and sparks their imaginations by using the excitement of NASA's missions. In partnership with organizations across the country, NASA hopes to test and expand models that are proven to make a difference.

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  • Workforce Coalition: Education Task Force

    [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.

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Contact Information

    Ms. Tammy Rowan (Acting)
    Informal Education
    Marshall Space Flight Center
    HS30/Academic Affairs Office
    Huntsville, AL 35812
    Phone: 256-961-0954
    Fax: 256-544-7968

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