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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

Naseeha Cardwell

Washington Space Grant Awards Graduate Student A Scientific Leadership Award

Naseeha Cardwell, a chemical engineering PhD candidate, has received the Dorothy L. Simpson Leadership Award from the Seattle chapter of Achievement […]

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Brown University researchers are analyzing fragments from the asteroid Bennu, hoping to reveal its ancient secrets. All photos by Nick Dentamaro/Brown University

Rhode Island Space Grant Director Researches Bennu Asteroid Samples

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — As part of a large-scale effort to unlock clues about the origins of life on Earth, […]

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A team from Penn State Harrisburg spent a week at a NASA facility over the summer, building a scientific experiment and sending it to space through the RockOn! program. Penn State Harrisburg students Neil Lerch, a graduate student in electrical engineering, and Trent Townsend, a mechanical engineering major, and University Park student Sara Jambhekar, who is studying aerospace engineering, participated, along with Brian Maicke, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State Harrisburg. Credit: Brian Maicke / Penn State. Creative Commons

Pennsylvania Space Grant Funds Team in NASA's RockOn! Program

MIDDLETOWN, Pa. — A team from Penn State Harrisburg spent a week at a NASA facility over the summer, building […]

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A UNIQUE NATIONAL RESOURCE

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

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’s just a few:

High Altitude Student Platform
RockSat logo
NASA Robotic Mining Competition
STEM Enhancement in Earth Science