[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.
[Educators Grades 5-12 & Students Higher Education]
[Available Nationally]
NASA offers the perfect package of adventure and career development. Teachers earn graduate level credits while spending six weeks in California as part of a residential science research program that includes flying on a NASA aircraft.
[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 & Students Grades 6-12]
[Available: Nationally]
The DIME competition challenges student teams to design, build, and operate microgravity experiments in a NASA drop tower.
[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 K-12 and Students Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
The project awards Endeavor Science Teaching Certificate Project Fellowships to K-12 formal educators (in-service, alternative route, pre-service) to develop and improve teachers' knowledge of pedagogical content. Fellows demonstrate changes in practice and apply science concepts with NASA content and educational materials.
[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.
[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.
[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 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 & 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]
MSP's mission is to fund innovative science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM, projects that address Higher Education portfolio gaps within NASA's MUREP priorities. Projects are selected through competitive solicitations.
[Educators Grades K-12]
[Available: Nationally]
The NASA electronic Professional Development Network, or ePDN, develops and delivers NASA-related online courses, workshops and events for the benefit of STEM K-12 teachers across the nation
[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.
[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.
[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]
PSTI 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.
[Students Grades 7-12 & Higher Education]
[Available: Nationally]
SLP challenges students to design, build and launch a reusable rocket with a scientific or engineering payload to one mile above ground level. The project engages students in scientific research and real-world engineering with NASA engineers.
[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.
[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.
[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.