STEM OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS

TitleCategoryEligibilityDescriptionStatusDeadline
LiftOff Summer InstituteTrainingK-12 EducatorsAn aerospace workshop run by the Texas Space Grant Consortium that provides a week of professional development training for teachers

OPEN

2023-12-23
Plant the Moon ChallengeCompetitionCollege Students
K-12 Students
Participants will join a global science experiment and research challenge to examine how vegetable crops can grow in lunar or Martian soil

OPEN

2024-01-14
Advanced Approaches to Science CommunicationCourseCollege StudentsA 3-credit, graduate-level science communications course at the University of Wyoming, offered in Spring 2024
(ZOO 5890-07, CRN 26538)

OPEN

2024-01-19
ACRP University Design CompetitionCompetitionCollege StudentsFAA-sponsored competition that challenges teams of college students to design solutions for real-world issues addressing our nation’s airports and the National Air System

OPEN

2024-01-26
NASA Big Idea ChallengeCompetitionCollege StudentsThis challenge provides college students up to $150,000 to design, develop, and demonstrate novel uses of low Size, Weight and Power (SWaP) inflatable technologies, structures, and systems for lunar operations

OPEN

2024-02-01
RockOn! WorkshopWorkshopCollege Students
College Faculty
A hands-on workshop at the NASA Wallops Flight Facility that teaches participants how to create a sounding rocket experiment from scratch and then launch it into space

OPEN

2024-02-02
imaginAviation 2024 Watch PartyEventEducational OrganizationsHost a watch party for imaginAviation 2024, NASA's annual showcase highlighting the latest in aviation research

OPEN

2024-02-26
NASA Gateway to Blue Skies CompetitionCompetitionCollege StudentsMulti-disciplinary teams of students from all academic levels tackle significant challenges and opportunities for the aviation industry through a new project theme each year

OPEN

2024-02-27
Space for Teachers Embedded Teacher ProgramTrainingK-12 EducatorsA year-long immersive space science project opportunity for K-12 teachers that culminates in a parabolic flight

OPEN

2024-03-01
NASA Human Lander Challenge (HuLC)CompetitionCollege StudentsTeams of students and their faculty advisors are asked to design innovative solutions addressing the mitigation of lunar Plume-Surface Interaction (PSI)

OPEN

2024-03-04
RASC-AL CompetitionCompetitionCollege StudentsTeams of students design innovative solutions with supporting original engineering and analysis in response to several aerospace-related themes

OPEN

2024-03-07
Dynamic Eclipse Broadcase InitiativeProjectAnyoneA citizen science solar eclipse observation project where volunteers conduct telescope observations of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse and broadcast their images to the web

OPEN

Early 2024
Pathways to SpaceCourseAnyoneFree course on Coursera that explores the cosmos and your place in it, the ways we explore space, and how people and politics play a role in what we learn

OPEN

No Deadline
Dunlap Postdoctoral FellowshipsFellowshipPhD in astronomy or astrophysicsThe University of Toronto invites applications for the Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellowships within the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics

CLOSED

Passed
NASA TechRise Student ChallengeCompetitionK-12 Students
(Grades 6–12)
Develop a science or technology experiment idea to fly on a NASA-sponsored high-altitude balloon or rocket flight

CLOSED

Passed
Student CanSat CompetitionCompetitionCollege StudentsAnnual event hosted by the American Astronautical Society where college and university student teams compete to design, build, and launch a payload system

CLOSED

Passed
Your Place in Space ChallengeCompetitionK-12 Students
(High School)
High school student groups submit designs that demonstrate a product or service that will contribute to space missions and exploration

CLOSED

Passed
Patti Grace Smith FellowshipFellowshipCollege Students (Undergraduate)A program that matches Black and African American undergraduate students with an interest in a career in the aerospace industry with paid internships

CLOSED

Passed
Brooke Owens FellowshipFellowshipCollege Students (Undergraduate)A 12-week summer fellowship with an aerospace organization for students of underrepresented genders

CLOSED

Passed
HASPProjectCollege Students
K-12 Students
The High Altitude Student Platform (HASP) carries student payloads to an altitude of about 36 kilometers with flight durations of 15–20 hours using a zero pressure balloon

CLOSED

Passed