NASA STEM Opportunities and Activities For Students
Multiple challenges and opportunities reaching a broad audience of middle and high schools, colleges, and universities across the nation.
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Challenges are designed to build student knowledge and skills in STEM by focusing on NASA's goals, collaboration, and career pathways.
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A real-world experience for college and university students and their advisors to develop technology needed to support NASA’s exploration goals.
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Students ages 13-18, come dream with NASA Aeronautics and help us envision and market a more sustainable commercial aircraft.
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University-level competition for teams to use the NASA systems engineering process to design, build, and operate a lunar robot.
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A year-long commitment for Texas high school juniors related to space exploration, Earth science, technology, and aeronautics.
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Middle/high school and college-level student teams design, build, test, and launch a high-powered rocket carrying a scientific or engineering payload.
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A project based learning program for high school students to learn skills by designing and fabricating valued products for NASA.
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A coding challenge in which NASA presents technical problems to middle/ high school students.
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NASA SUITS challenges undergraduate or graduate students to design and create spacesuit information displays within augmented reality (AR) environments.
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Undergraduate students design, build, and test a tool or device that addresses an authentic, current space exploration challenge.
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Teams of high school and college students design, develop, build, and test human-powered rovers capable of traversing challenging terrain.
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Eligibility at a Glance Requirements OSTEM Intern Pathways Intern International Intern Citizenship U.S. Citizen U.S. Citizen Citizen of a country…
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The competition offers Tribal college-level students the opportunity to demonstrate engineering and design skills through direct application in high-powered rocketry.
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Teams of professionals and young people are challenged to solve an engineering design problem in a competitive way.