STEM Engagement Impacts
NASA provides an exciting array of STEM experiences and opportunities to immerse students in the agency’s missions and projects. By maintaining a steadfast focus on engaging students, and supporting educators and educational institutions, NASA seeks to build the next generation STEM workforce and broaden student participation in STEM fields.
STEM Reports
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Reach Map and Metrics
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Faces of STEM Engagement
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STEM Engagement Resources
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FY 2024 Investments by State
NASA's Office of STEM Engagement makes targeted investments across all 50 states, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
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NASA STEM Engagement 2024
Find out how student work experiences, internship opportunities, engagement activities, and products helped connect students to NASA's mission, work, and people – and how these impacts are preparing students to join tomorrow's skilled technical workforce.
Read FY 2024 Office of STEM Engagement Executive Summary Highlights about NASA STEM Engagement 2024
NASA Strategy for STEM Engagement
Build the Next Generation of Explorers
The 2022 NASA Strategic Plan Objective 4.3, “Build the next generation of explorers,” establishes the agency’s STEM engagement strategy. Given the Nation’s need for a skilled STEM workforce and projected demand, NASA clearly has a vested interest in attracting, engaging, and preparing its future STEM professionals.
2022 NASA Strategic Plan about NASA Strategy for STEM Engagement
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Sign-up for the NASA EXPRESS Newsletter
Keep up with the latest NASA STEM happenings by subscribing to the NASA EXPRESS newsletter. Each weekly email features at-home activities to inspire learning and exploration. Find crafting ideas, science experiments with household items and videos to watch as a family. Updates on workshops, internships, contests, and student challenges are also included.
Reach
FY 2024 Participant numbers
Educators
Students
By the Numbers
The NASA Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) investments encompass four projects: the Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP), National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project (Space Grant), Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and the Next Generation STEM Project (Next Gen STEM). OSTEM collaborates with NASA mission directorates, including the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD), Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD), Science Mission Directorate (SMD), Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD), and Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD); and NASA centers and facilities, to maximize the agency’s reach and impact.
In Fiscal Year 2024 (October 1, 2023– September 30, 2024), 970K+ student, 59K+ educator and 7.5M+ other participants engaged in NASA STEM engagement activities and educational content.
Participants
| STEM Engagement Metric (FY 2024) | EPSCoR | NGS | MUREP | Space Grant | Other STEM Engagements | Totals |
| Participant Data | ||||||
| Total # of Student Participants | 1136 | 283347 | 21952 | 632094 | 31811 | 970340 |
| Total # of Educator Participants | 911 | 7684 | 1817 | 47308 | 1538 | 59258 |
| Total # of Other Participants | 0 | 7284683 | 1048 | 217571 | 1276 | 7504578 |
Participant Data Definitions:
- Student Participants represent all students reached through STEM Engagement investments
- Educator Participants represents educator participants reached through STEM Engagement investments
- Other Participants represents general public participants (e.g., uncategorized students of all ages, parents, educators, and adult participants) reached through STEM engagement investments.
Significant Awards
- In Fiscal Year 2024, Space Grant, MUREP, Next Gen STEM, and EPSCoR grantee and awardee institutions reported 3,704 peer-reviewed publications, technical papers and presentations representing opportunities for learners to contribute to NASA’s aeronautics, space and science missions and work.
- Notably, 58 percent of the peer-reviewed and other technical publications were authored or coauthored by students.
- NASA provided 8,513 internships, fellowships, research opportunities, educator professional development, challenges and other college/pre-college STEM engagement opportunities to 7,950 student and educator participants representing K-12 institutions and higher education institutions including 2-year, 4-year institutions and all Minority Serving Institution (MSI) classifications. These significant awards provided a total of over $46.9M in direct financial support to participants.
Featured Partnerships
Through public-private partnerships, NASA OSTEM enters into unfunded collaborations with leaders in the commercial, technology, non-profit, and media sectors to inspire and prepare young people to enter STEM careers. In FY 2024, OSTEM developed strategic partnerships to broaden impact to millions more students, expanding OSTEM’s digital reach by over 10 million engagements in FY 2024.
Learn more about partnering with NASA STEM Engagement.
NASA AND DISCOVERY EDUCATION
In the last 18 months users of the Discovery Education platform interacted with NASA and NASA themed products over 2 million times.
NASA AND CRAYOLA EDUCATION
Over the last 2 years, 9.5 million students have participated in collaborative content around the International Space Station and James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA AND GOOGLE
NASA and Google collaborated to release online instructional materials to introduce students to STEM concepts and careers and to help students learn about the science and technology behind exoplanet discovery.
NASA AND MINECRAFT
Over the past two years, 4 million players have engaged with two games for students tied to the Artemis Missions and James Webb Space Telescope.
