About NASA STEM Engagement
NASA investments in STEM engagement are focused on building a future STEM workforce, through program elements designed to bolster capacity and to attract, engage and enable students to move toward STEM careers through NASA-unique opportunities.
What We Do
Engage students in authentic learning experiences with NASA’s people, content, and facilities.
Enable students to contribute to NASA’s work in exploration and discovery through challenges and work experiences.
Attract students to STEM through unique learning opportunities that spark interest and provide connections to NASA’s mission and work.
NASA STEM Engagement Highlights
Find out how NASA’s STEM opportunities and activities in fiscal year 2023 enabled students and educators to engage with the agency’s most ambitious missions and programs.
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NASA STEM Impacts and Benefits
A Culture of Evidence
NASA has long held a culture of using evidence to inform its endeavors. As an Agency at the cutting edge of exploration, scientific discovery, and technological development, NASA believes that frequently and thoroughly examining and evaluating its programs, missions, and projects leads to future success. NASA STEM Engagement is dedicated to robust evidence-building practices. The Office of STEM Engagement employs a performance assessment and evaluation strategy consisting of three main components: performance activities, evaluation activities, and a learning agenda. This strategy is a crucial tool for systematically gathering evidence to identify the priorities and support decision-making that will help cultivate the next generation of explorers.
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Partnering With NASA STEM Engagement
NASA has a rich history of collaborating across the STEM ecosystem to foster innovative student experiences that leverage mission, people, and facilities.
NASA conducts strategic partnerships with a wide range of external STEM engagement stakeholder organizations. These unfunded collaborators gain access to NASA mission data and imagery, subject matter expertise in scientific and technical disciplines connected to our Mission, and support with curation of NASA education resources, products, and materials. Through these efforts, we coordinate with industry, educational institutions, and non-profit organizations to support development of high-quality opportunities for both youth outside of the classroom and students in pre-kindergarten through graduate school.
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Engagement Opportunities in NASA STEM (EONS)
Supporting research in science and technology is an important part of NASA’s overall mission. NASA solicits this research through the release of various research announcements in a wide range of science and technology disciplines.
EONS is an omnibus announcement that includes a range of NASA STEM Engagement opportunities for basic and applied science and technology research and education. Specific opportunities with individual requirements and milestones will be issued periodically throughout the year as appendices to this solicitation as funds are made available for new awards. EONS opportunities are announced via the NASA Solicitation and Proposal Integrated Review and Evaluation System (NSPIRES) website and grants.gov. Prospective proposers are required to be registered on NSPIRES.
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NASA STEM Leadership and Contacts
NASA STEM Public Affairs Officers
For public information and media inquires national in scope.
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.
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NASA STEM Projects
NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement provides guidance and strategic direction of the agency’s STEM engagement portfolio. The STEM Engagement program encompasses four projects which collaborates with NASA mission directorates and field centers to maximize the agency’s reach and impact.
Next Gen STEM
Next Generation STEM (Next Gen STEM) creates K-12 and informal engagement opportunities aligned to NASA mission priorities. Next Gen STEM attracts student interest in STEM through NASA unique learning opportunities.
National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project
A national network of colleges and universities with >1,250 affiliate institutions and organizations<br>located in all 50 states, DC, and Puerto Rico. Space Grant expands opportunities for students to participate in NASA’s work.
Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research
The Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) funds partnerships with government, higher education, and industry in 28 eligible jurisdictions. EPSCoR effects sustainable improvements in research infrastructure, capacity, and competitiveness.
Minority University Research and Education Project
The Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) enhances research, academic, and technology capabilities at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs). MUREP makes critical investments to increase capacity and engage students as appropriated by Congress.
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