Tennessee state university a historically black college/university located in nashville tennessee proposes to house the tennessee murep aerospace academy. The goals of this academy are to 1 inspire…

This is a $418,675.12 cooperative agreement awarded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Shared Services Center to Tennessee State University, a historically black college/university located in Nashville, Tennessee. The purpose of this award is to establish the Tennessee MUREP (Minority University Research and Education Project) Aerospace Academy, which aims to inspire a more diverse student population to pursue careers in STEM fields, engage students and families in STEM activities, and educate students using NASA's STEM curricula and evidence-based instructional strategies. The program will leverage the university's Aerospace Education Laboratory, which includes a flight simulator, planetarium, and computer lab with NASA software. This award builds upon the prior success of the NASA SEMAA (Science, Engineering, Mathematics, and Aerospace Academy) program and will partner with the Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools to recruit high-quality STEM teachers as instructors. There is no set-aside designation for this contract, which has a period of performance through February 2019.

Tennessee state university a historically black college/university located in nashville tennessee proposes to house the tennessee murep aerospace academy. The goals of this academy are to 1 inspire a more diverse student population to pursue careers in stem related fields 2 engage and excite students parents adult family members and teachers by immersing them in stem activities involving emerging technologies and high tech applications and 3 educate students utilizing rigorous stem curricula designed and implemented by NASA and effective evidence based strategies employed by leading stem professionals and agencies. Key components will include multifaceted initiatives such as hands on K8 stem curricula aerospace education laboratory AEL family cafe student professional development and community outreach activities. This proposed program will build upon the prior success of the NASA semaa program and will combine problem based learning pedagogies with hands on instructional strategies that utilize technology classrooms throughout campus to enhance the curricula by showing interactive multimedia presentations short films pictures and other multimedia activities to help students gain a deeper understanding of concepts. Additionally this program will take advantage of the NASA aerospace education laboratory AEL which has a flight simulator an inflatable planetarium with projector and a computer lab with NASA software to further inspire engage excite and educate students parents and teachers. This tennessee murep aerospace academy will partner with the metropolitan nashville public schools to recruit high quality science or mathematics teachers to serve as instructors which has worked successfully for many years in the NASA semaa program. Also building upon past success of the semaa program students staff and faculty of TSU will continue to be fully involved in the planning design and implementation of this proposed tennessee murep aerospace academy program from providing logistical support to assisting teachers to teaching stem concepts as well. Likewise this proposed tennessee murep program will build upon the lessons learned from the semaa parent cafe and introduce parents to stem educational opportunities and information or resources to assist in improving study habits creating an academic resume for their child and covering pedagogical and motivational techniques that will help in making their children better students who are interested and prepared to pursue stem careers.