contact of nasa to join & NASA education

Sonja Alexander
Headquarters, Washington                              
202-358-1761
sonja.r.alexander@nasa.gov
 
Jeannette Owens
NASA Glenn Research Center, Cleveland
216-433-2990
jeannette.p.owens@nasa.gov
  

NASA Official: Mike McCann  Last Updated: July 28, 2009 + NASA Jobs CuratorContact Phone:+ 1-877-677-2123+ 1-877-NSSC123

All Educator and Faculty Programs

• 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 fifty states and the U.S. territories.
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• Airborne Research Experiences for Educators Project

  [Educators Grades 6-12 & 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.
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• Center for Astronomy Education

  [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.
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• Curriculum Improvements Partnership Award for the Integration of Research

  [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.
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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 Associates

  [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."
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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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• Endeavor Science Teaching Certificate Project

  [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.
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• ESMD Space Grant Faculty Project

  [Faculty Higher Education]
  [Available: Nationally]
  This Exploration System Mission Directorate project provides two opportunities for faculty to work in the summer at a NASA field center gathering senior design project ideas and internship opportunities or to create a senior design course in conjunction with a current ESMD-NASA researcher.
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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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• 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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• Eyes on the Sky Public Lecture Series

  [Educators & Students Grades 9-Higher Education]
  [Available: MD]
  Eyes on the Sky is a public lecture series featuring leading scientists and NASA's cutting edge scientific endeavors to answer some of the most profound questions about our universe.
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• Faculty Student Teams Project

  [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.
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• Global Climate Change Education Project

  [Educators Grades K-Higher Education]
  [Available: Nationally]
  The GCCE project is designed to strengthen the skills of teachers and to provide innovative science research and learning opportunities for students. The GCCE project annually solicits proposals for innovative education activities that support the goals of the project.
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• HUNCH: High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware

  [Students Grades 9-12]
  [Available: AL]
  HUNCH provides "work-world" experiences for students by engaging them in the design, fabrication and rapid prototyping of multiple products for use in the ARES I mock-up.
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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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• Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars Project

  [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.
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• Middle School Aerospace Scholars

  [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.
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• Minority University Research and Education Programs Small Projects

  [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.
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• NASA Electronic Professional Development Network

  [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
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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 Postdoctoral Project

  [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.
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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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• Pre-Service Teacher Institutes

  [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.
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• Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Project

  [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.
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• Spaceward Bound

  [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.
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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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• 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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• Tribal Colleges and University Project -- Summer Research Experience

  [Faculty & Students Higher Education]
  [Available: Nationally]
  Student and faculty teams research opportunities to gain hands-on experience in their NASA-related field of study.
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• University Research Centers

  [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.
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• University Student Launch Initiative

  [Students Higher Education]
  [Available: Nationally]
  The NASA University Student Launch Initiative challenges university-level 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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• Visiting Researcher Exchange and Outreach Project

  [Educators & Students Higher Education]
  [Available: Nationally]
  The Visiting Researcher Exchange and Outreach project is a collaboration between the NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Academic Affairs Office and the Universities Space Research Association. The project is designed to stimulate involvement of university, private sector and government agency researchers with NASA.
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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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