Did you know?

OVER

6,300

COLLEGE STUDENTS

receive Space Grant funding each year, with over 1,400 community college students

OVER

22,000

EDUCATORS ENGAGED

annually, reaching over 400,000 K-12 students through Space Grant funding

25%

OF PARTICIPANTS WERE FROM

UNDERREPRESENTED POPULATIONS

40%

OF PARTICIPANTS WERE

FEMALE

Recent News & Events

Drea Hineman, a senior from Gillette majoring in plant production and protection in the UW Department of Plant Sciences, inset, recently earned regional recognition at a Spacepoint symposium, dubbed Interplanetary Life, in Boise, Idaho, for her innovative space-farming research supported by NASA. Here, she tends to plants undergoing a salinity trial at the Laramie Research and Extension Center greenhouse. (Paulo Pinto de Mello Neto Photo; NASA)

Wyoming Space Grant Fellow Revolutionizes Space Farming

The novel agricultural research of a University of Wyoming senior could help NASA pioneer the future of space farming. Growing […]

Arizona Space Grant Alumnus Explores Deep and Near Space

(East Wenatchee, WA) – An East Wenatchee man has taken a passion for exploration and made it a career of […]

Arkansas Space Grant Supports Engineering Student with NASA Internship

Spencer Knight, a senior double majoring in electrical and computer engineering and physics at UA Little Rock, spent his summer exploring the […]

A UNIQUE NATIONAL RESOURCE

The National Space Grant Foundation supports Space Grant consortia in every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Each consortium conducts an array of strategically designed programs to support and enhance science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education.

Click on a state or territory to learn more about its programming.

Programs run by Space Grant jurisdictions

Across the nation, Space Grant jurisdictions are making an impact. Here are just a few:

Inspiring the

explore, engage, & inspire

science, technology, engineering, math, & space