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NASA Announces Teams for 2024 Student Launch Challenge

October 4, 2023 NeRD

3 min read NASA Announces Teams for 2024 Student Launch Challenge NASA has announced the 70 teams representing 24 states and Puerto Rico selected to compete in the 2024 Student Launch Challenge. The annual competition – one of NASA’s nine Artemis Student Challenges – requires middle/high school and college/university students to design, build, and fly a high-powered amateur rocket and scientific payload. Students from the AIAA Orange Country Section team of Irvine, California, display their rocket to news media and the public during Rocket Fair – an annual showcase event…

Students Walk in the Clouds at NASA Armstrong STEM Event

September 21, 2023 NeRD

2 min read Students Walk in the Clouds at NASA Armstrong STEM Event Students are wrapped in a cloud from a demonstration by NASA’s California Office of STEM Engagement event with Center of Science and Industry at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California. NASA/Steve Freeman More than 500 local students, ranging from grades first to eighth, joined NASA and COSI (Center of Science and Industry) in a Learning Lunchbox event where they saw a demonstration of how clouds form, and had the opportunity to ask NASA experts questions.…

NASA, NSF Collaborate to Strengthen Research Capabilities

September 11, 2023 NeRD

Ten research investigators at nine academic institutions will advance their science and technology projects while contributing to NASA’s research priorities through an agency collaboration with the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). NSF is providing $2.7 million in funding through its Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) program to strengthen research infrastructure and NASA is providing $600,000 in funding through its EPSCoR Research Infrastructure Development program. The partnership provides NSF EPSCoR Research Fellows access to the space agency’s expert workforce and unique facilities and equipment. Fellows will learn new techniques,…

Student-Focused Scientific Balloon Mission Inspires Future Generation

September 1, 2023 NeRD

Team members from the University of Colorado Boulder and Colorado School of Mines pose with their flight-ready payload set to fly with the HASP mission during NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program’s fall campaign in Fort Sumner, N.M. From left, Elsa Carreras, Benjamin Hellem, Erick Bueno, and Chloe Zentner. Not pictured: team members Shuyu Song, Hallie Hill, and Peter Braza. u003cstrongu003eCredits: NASAu003c/strongu003e The fall campaign of NASA’s Scientific Balloon Program is underway at the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility (CSBF) balloon launch site in Fort Sumner, New Mexico. The program will launch a…

NASA’s Lunabotics 2024 Challenge is Open

August 31, 2023 NeRD

The Milwaukee School of Engineering’s robotic miner is ready for its turn to dig in the mining arena during NASA’s LUNABOTICS competition on May 24, 2022, at the Center for Space Education near the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. NASA/Kim Shiflett Across the country, teams comprising hundreds of undergraduate and graduate students – members of the Artemis generation – will vie to be one of the select few competing in the Lunabotics 2024 on-site challenge at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex in Florida. For teams designing, building,…

First Nations Launch Winners View NASA SpaceX’s Crew-7 Launch

August 30, 2023 NeRD

Participants from the 14th First Nations Launch High-Power Rocket Competition watch NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 launch from the Banana Creek viewing site at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, Aug. 26, 2023. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov launched to the International Space Station at 3:27 a.m. EDT from Kennedy’s Launch Complex 39A. Students and advisors from University of Washington, University of Colorado-Boulder, and an international…

STEM Essay Contest Winners Earn Close-Encounter Visit to NASA

August 17, 2023 NeRD

3 min read STEM Essay Contest Winners Earn Close-Encounter Visit to NASA Francesca Esma (left), Rainelle Yasa, Luca Pollack, and Audrielle Paige Esma interact with a NASA plane in virtual reality at NASA Glenn’s Graphics and Visualization (GVIS) Lab. NASA/GRC/Jordan Salkin Three student winners of NASA’s Power to Explore Challenge journeyed behind the scenes at NASA’s Glenn Research Center and Great Lakes Science Center (GLSC) in Cleveland after drafting the top papers in the national STEM essay contest. The competition for kindergarten through 12th grade students focused on the potential of radioisotopes. Students were…