For Students Grades 5-8
opportunity to participate
Power to Explore Student Challenge
Power to Explore Challenge invites K-12 students to dream up a new space mission powered by a Radioisotope Power System (RPS) to a destination with limited light. The writing contest is open to individual students attending U.S. public, private, charter, or home schools – including those in U.S. territories and schools operated by the U.S. for American personnel overseas. Forty-five semifinalists will receive an RPS prize pack, nine finalists will receive an exclusive virtual session with a NASA expert, and three winners will be awarded a trip for two to NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Entries Close: Jan. 26, 2024, 11:59 p.m. EST / 8:59 p.m. PST
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Read It!
What Is a Black Hole?
What Is the Artemis Program?
'First Woman' Graphic Novels and Experience
A Story About Artemis
"Goodnight Moon" in Space
Courage to Soar Higher
The Adventures of Commander Moonikin Campos and Friends
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
Build It!
Build an Orion Desktop Model
Build Your Own Spectrograph
Make Asteroids You Can Eat!
Tornado in a Bottle
Build a Lander, Make Moon Phase Cookies, and More!
Make a Scale Solar System
Make a Straw Plane
Play It!
Launch the Rocket
What Number am I Thinking of?
Build a Fleet of Rockets
Clear All the Stars to Win
Jumbled Jets
Drive a Rover on Mars
Watch It!
Astronauts Read Fan Mail From Students
NASA Experts Share Their Best Study Tips!
What Type of Engineering is Right for You?
Surprisingly STEM: Moon Rock Processers @ NASA Johnson
Facts and Figures from the Artemis I Mission
How Do Astronauts Communicate Nonverbally in Space?
We Asked a NASA Expert
Surprisingly STEM: Wind Tunnel Engineers
Color It!
Color Nature with Nebula
Space Place Coloring Pages
Commercial Crew Activity and Coloring Booklet
Download the Artemis Coloring Page
NASA Coloring Books
Spacewalk Coloring Sheet
Explore It!
Take a Virtual Flight with NASA
Code a Mars Rover Driving Game
Climate Change for Kids
Find Your Exoplanet Name
Trace Space Back to You
How To Do a Science Fair Project
Be a Stargazer!
Make a Moon Phases Calendar and Calculator
Make a Star Finder
Look at the Moon! Journal What You See
