The Breakthrough Junior Challenge is an annual global competition for students to inspire creative thinking about science. Students ages 13 to 18 from countries across the globe are invited to create and submit original videos (3 minutes in length maximum) that bring […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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The Friends of Amateur Rocketry (FAR) and the Mars Society are sponsoring a contest for liquid-fueled bi-propellant powered rockets built by college student teams: FAR/Mars Society Launch Contest Student Rocketry Teams Compete for FAR-MARS Prize MOJAVE, CA – Student-built rockets will streak […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Mission 60 for the Sally Ride EarthKAM program is set for February 20-26. Sally Ride EarthKAM is a NASA educational outreach program for middle school students who select particular spots on earth for imaging by a dedicated camera on the International Space Station. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Check out the Astronaut Abby YouTube channel where Abigail Harrison, aka Astronaut Abby, hosts The Space and Science Show #AskAbby series in which she answers questions about space travel topics. Here are the first three shows: Abby founded The Mars Generation, a 501c3 nonprofit “with a mission […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s becoming increasingly common for students in colleges as well as in grade schools and high schools to built small satellites and see them go into space before they graduate. Here is a story about one such project in Oregon: Student […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Mars Generation is offering students a chance to win a free 1 week scholarship for Space Camp located in Huntsville, Alabama for summer of 2018: Space Camp Scholarship Application | The Mars Generation TMG Space Camp Scholarship Applications are now open […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Kickstarter for STEM program with experiments for students to compare with results on ISS
Nov09
on November 9, 2017
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A Kickstarter has opened to back a program to let students run crystal and microbe growing experiments on the ground to compare with similar experiments on the International Space Station: Kickstarter for STEM Education Program in Space Announced Xtronaut, NanoRacks, […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Project Karman is an undergraduate student led initiative at UC Berkeley to design, build, and launch a rocket that exceeds 100 kilomters in altitude. They currently have a crowdfunding campaign underway, which has raised $13,725 so far towards a goal […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Sixty years ago today, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite. The news electrified the U.S. and set off a sequence of events that eventually led to the Apollo 11 landing of two astronauts on the Moon […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Reach for the Stars” rocket competition winners to celebrate at Space Camp/US Space & Rocket Center
Oct03
A report from the Reach for the Stars National Rocket Competition on the 2017 results: Reach for the Stars ~ National Rocket Competition Winners to Celebrate at Space Camp / US Space & Rocket Center Contestants in the 11th annual […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
NASA is sponsoring a space art contest for kids ages 4-12 on the theme of astronauts flying on commercial crew vehicles to the ISS: Commercial Crew 2018 Calendar Artwork Contest | NASA NASA’s Commercial Crew Program is partnering with private companies […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement from the CosmoQuest public participation in space exploration initiative: Public Invited to Test New Tool to Study Earth using Photos Taken by International Space Station Astronauts CosmoQuest’s Image Detective, a NASA-funded citizen science project, invites the public to identify Earth […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Spacesuit Art Project gives children battling cancer an opportunity to express themselves in art and then see that art taken to space. As described in a recent issue of the NASA JSC Roundup newsletter (pdf): Using simple paintbrushes and paint, pediatric […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A Russian student satellite was recently launched (along with 72 other satellites) into low earth orbit (LEO). Mayak is Russia’s first crowdfunded satellite project. The primary goal is to demonstrate that a small satellite can be de-orbited passively by deploying a […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Cities in Space 2017” student competition at New Worlds Conference, Nov.10-11, 2017, Austin, TX
Jul05
An announcement from the STEAMSPACE™ Education Outreach program: Future Space Pioneers Coming to Texas Austin, Texas – July 5, 2017–More than seven hundred students and their teachers and mentors from around the world will come to Austin November 10th to present their […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
An announcement from the National Space Society (NSS): High School Students Take on Challenge to Design World’s First Science-Fiction Inspired Spacecraft Enterprise In Space and SpaceWorks Partner to Provide the Opportunity with ASTRO Program (Washington, DC – June 28, 2017) SpaceWorks […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Spaceport America Cup college student rocket competition took place last week at the New Mexico spaceport. (See earlier preview posting here.) Over 90 colleges were represented from around the world. The results are in: University of Michigan wins first Spaceport America […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
College students and high school educators participate next week in rocket programs hosted by NASA’s Wallops Island Space Flight Facility: Students and Educators Become Rocket Scientists for a Week at Wallops Have you wondered what it would be like to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft recently berthed to the International Space Station and delivered over a ton of scientific experiments, including many student projects. (See NASA articles here and here.) Student groups can participate in ISS science via programs such as these: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
EarthKAM is a camera aboard the International Space Station that is controlled by middle-school students participating in the Sally Ride Earth Knowledge Acquired by Middle School Students (i.e. Sally Ride EarthKAM) program. Students recently took this terrific image of the Grand Canyon: […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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