Cooperative Agreement NCC1303005

This is a $480,000.00 Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Hartnell Community College District, a minority-serving institution located in Salinas, California. The award, which has no set-aside designation, will fund the Hartnell MUREP Aerospace Academy Project to provide STEM education and enrichment activities for underserved K-12 students in the region through 2025. The project aims to improve STEM participation and retention among...

This is a $480,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the California State University San Marcos Corporation (CSUSM Corp), a non-profit organization and Hispanic Serving Institution. The award will fund the CSUSM NASA MUREP Aerospace Academy, which aims to engage underserved youth in STEM activities related to aerospace. The cooperative agreement has an ultimate completion date of September 30, 2025. CSUSM Corp...

This is a cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to Florida International University (FIU) to establish the Center for Research and Education in 2D Optoelectronics (CRE2DO). The $4,810,532 award, which does not have a set-aside designation, will enable FIU to develop research infrastructure and address key challenges in space exploration through partnerships with NASA centers and the Penn State 2D Crystal Consortium. The center will focus on advancing two-dimensional materials, which offer...

This is a $325,000 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Fresno Foundation, which is the nonprofit auxiliary organization supporting California State University, Fresno. The agreement will partner the Fresno State Kremen School of Education's Office of Community Based Learning with the California Teaching Fellows Foundation, Fresno County Superintendent of Schools, and California Region VII STEM Hub to scale the existing Murep...

This is a $420,000.00 Cooperative Agreement between the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and Hartnell Community College District in Salinas, California. The award is to transition Hartnell's existing Science, Engineering, Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA) program into a MUREP Aerospace Academy (MAA) project. The MAA project will serve approximately 2,000 underrepresented and disadvantaged K-12 students per year in a region with large numbers of migrant, low-income,...

This is a $795,000.00 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Orlando Science Center Inc., doing business as New Orlando Science Center, a non-profit organization. The contract is for the National Engineering Design Challenge with Orlando Science Center, with a period of performance from March 2022 through May 2025. This contract does not have a set-aside designation. Orlando Science Center has previously received...

This is a five-year Cooperative Agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Delaware State University (DSU), a historically black university and 1890 land-grant institution, to establish the NASA-MIRO Optics for Space Technology & Applied Research (O STAR) Center. The O STAR Center will conduct cutting-edge research and provide education/training in optical science and technology to traditionally underrepresented students, with a goal of enhancing...

This is a cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Challenger Center for Space Science Education, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. The $5,937,552 agreement is for the "CODERED: MY STEM MISSION" initiative, which aims to create and implement a comprehensive educational program focused on planetary science, particularly related to Mars. The initiative includes five major components: enhancements to a Mars simulation, inquiry-based...

The U.S. government awarded a $744,984.18 cooperative agreement to the Santa Monica Community College District to implement the "Santa Monica Colleges Minority Community College Curriculum Improvement Project" under the "Building Interdisciplinary Career Skills in STEM" program. The project aims to improve student success in STEM programs at the community college by strengthening curriculum through approaches focused on contextualized instruction, interdisciplinary...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Marshall Space Flight Center awarded a ten-year, forty-seven million dollar Cooperative Agreement to The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to continue collaborative research efforts at the National Space Science and Technology Center. The Cooperative Agreement provides an environment for space research, education, and development in support of NASA's mission, with a key focus on Earth Science Research and Analysis, Earth Science...