The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $749,582.00 grant to the Arizona Science Center, in collaboration with Arizona State University, Museum of Science, Science Museum of Minnesota, and the National Informal STEM Education Network (NISE Net), for a three-year project titled "Moon and Beyond: An Immersive Game for STEM Learning in Museums and Planetariums." The project aims to engage public audiences, particularly families with children in grades 4-8...
This is a $1,044,752.00 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to the Museum of Aviation Foundation for the "Operation STEM: Connecting NASA to Underrepresented Audiences in Middle Georgia" program. The grant will fund STEM education initiatives at the Museum of Aviation, a leading Air Force heritage and education center, including school day programs, teacher training, afterschool programming, summer camps, and a family STEM day event. The program...
This is a $200,000.00 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I award from the U.S. Department of Education's Institute of Education Sciences to Future Engineers LLC, a woman-owned small business limited liability company located in Burbank, California. The award is for research and development of an online platform for K-12 STEM challenges aligned with NASA's space exploration goals, including ideation support, educational product development, and management of student competitions...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded a $2,279,958.75 cooperative agreement to For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST), a nonprofit organization that provides science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education programs to K-12 students. The funding will support FIRST's Robotics Competition and Tech Challenge programs, which engage students in hands-on learning activities such as designing, building, and programming robots. The...
This is a $2,963,497.79 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to Texas State University for the STEM Teacher Excellence Project (STEP). The project will provide one-week institutes at each of the ten NASA Centers to pre-service and alternate route STEM teachers, with a focus on recruiting participants from minority-serving institutions. The institutes will offer content-rich learning experiences integrated with NASA facility tours and interactions with subject matter experts. Participants will...
This federal contract award, with ID NNX16AM35G, is for the "Innovative Mars Exploration Education and Technology (IMEET)" project led by the Kennedy Space Center Visitors Complex (KSCVC). The $380,936.10 grant will fund the development and implementation of IMEET summer camps for high school students and professional development workshops for STEM educators at various locations, including the South Florida Science Center & Aquarium, Coca Cola Space Science Center, and the Museum...
This is a $39,911 grant awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to Stem Advancement Inc., a non-profit organization, to provide space-related educational experiences for rural students. The grant, titled "Equipping and Inspiring Rural Students with Space-Related Experience", has an ultimate completion date of June 30, 2025. This award is not associated with a larger contract vehicle and does not have a set-aside designation. The objective is to equip and...
This is a cooperative agreement awarded by NASA's Science Mission Directorate (SMD) to Arizona State University (ASU) to address the need for greater U.S. scientific literacy. The $21,851,877 program, titled "NASA SMD Exploration Connection," will provide avenues for NASA SMD subject matter experts to interact with students and teachers, offer authentic STEM experiences for pre-college and college students, and deliver professional development to increase teachers' knowledge and...
This is a $332,000 cooperative agreement awarded by NASA to Morgan State University to implement the Baltimore MUREP Aerospace Academy 2 (BMAA-2) program. BMAA-2 aims to improve STEM literacy by engaging students, teachers, and family members through NASA-developed curriculum and the integration of emerging technologies. Key objectives include increasing interest in NASA STEM careers, providing skills to parents to support their children's STEM activities, and partnering with community...
This $175,000.00 cooperative agreement was awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to the Aldrin Family Foundation Inc. Sharespace Education Division, a non-profit organization, for "Project IANOS." The project represents a collaboration between industry, education, and communication experts to provide science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education to 3.8 million underserved students in grades 5-8. The cooperative...