STEM Engagement at NASA – Page 8

NASA Leaders Inspire Girls to Fly Toward STEM Careers

September 26, 2023 NeRD

Students from various schools and organizations with a STEM (science, technology, engineering, math) focus are photographed with employees from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center at the Launch and Landing Facility following their arrival to Kennedy on Friday, Sept. 22, 2023, as part of Delta Air Lines’ Women Inspiring Our Next Generation (WING) flight. The all-female flight crew brought girls from Atlanta, Georgia, ranging in age from 12 to 18, to learn about the various careers available at the Florida spaceport. NASA/Kim Shiflett By Matina DouzenisNASA’s Kennedy Space Center Women at NASA’s…

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.…

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…

Management and Program Analyst Trinesha Dixon

August 28, 2023 NeRD

"I think I do that with my interns and teams too — I give them the space to grow and learn and try to just be their guide along the way." — Trinesha M. Dixon, Management and Program Analyst, NASA Office of STEM Engagement, NASA's Johnson Space Center “During my first internship [as a Physics major in college], I had a female mentor who was well respected in the field. It was interesting watching her. She had what I call quiet power — and I see myself as also having…