STEM OPPORTUNITIES & COMPETITIONS
| Title | Category | Eligibility | Description | Status | Deadline |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LiftOff Summer Institute | Training | K-12 Educators | An 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 Challenge | Competition | College 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 Communication | Course | College Students | A 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 Competition | Competition | College Students | FAA-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 Challenge | Competition | College Students | This 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! Workshop | Workshop | College 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 Party | Event | Educational Organizations | Host 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 Competition | Competition | College Students | Multi-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 Program | Training | K-12 Educators | A 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) | Competition | College Students | Teams 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 Competition | Competition | College Students | Teams 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 Initiative | Project | Anyone | A 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 Space | Course | Anyone | Free 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 Fellowships | Fellowship | PhD in astronomy or astrophysics | The University of Toronto invites applications for the Dunlap Postdoctoral Fellowships within the Dunlap Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics | CLOSED | Passed |
| NASA TechRise Student Challenge | Competition | K-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 Competition | Competition | College Students | Annual 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 Challenge | Competition | K-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 Fellowship | Fellowship | College 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 Fellowship | Fellowship | College Students (Undergraduate) | A 12-week summer fellowship with an aerospace organization for students of underrepresented genders | CLOSED | Passed |
| HASP | Project | College 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 |