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The novel A Bridge to the Stars Scholarship (ABttS) Program is a creative high school-to-college pipeline designed to steadily increase the enrollment and success of historically underrepresented (ethnic and racial minorities, female, low-income, and first-generation college) majors in NASA-related STEM fields. This unique program offers extended engagement in astronomy, arguably the most accessible window to […]

The F&S part of the ABttS Program offers extended engagement in astronomy with Prof. McIntosh, a professional scientist and award-winning educator, through two unique tiers of STEM immersion in innovative learning and research training: I. STEM learning (Bridge Scholars): high school students are provided free enrollment in a learner-centered freshman astronomy course (ASTR 150 , […]

PinkSTEM is a professional learning community of STEM educators, undergraduate and post-graduate students organized to promote a series of workshops with active-learning. The goal is to Promote 21st century skills of teamwork, communication, and collaboration, as well as economic literacy, through engaging, hands-on challenges that merge invention and entrepreneurship for girls. Four teachers from computer […]

This activity provides year long fellowships to undergraduate students in New Jersey universities to conduct research at their universities. In the spring semesters, the academic year fellows prepare posters which are displayed at the academic year annual poster session. The poster session is open to the public and the fellows stand next to their posters […]

In this program, 16 college students participated as one large team, with smaller technical units to successfully launch and retrieve a weather balloon, with a payload that traveled up to 100,000 feet. Students learned about subjects such as meteorology, telemetry and how NASA takes different variables into account to perform missions, very similar to these. […]

Provide funding to students who are participating in hands-on space hardware and/or research projects.

The project was designed to help advance and growth existing programming and create new programming under the SMART Academy Center of Excellence offerings. These programs included the Women in Science, Energy and the Environment, High Altitude Research Platform, 100 Black Men Project Success, Best Engineering Academy, M Agnes Jones Elementary, Marietta Center for Advance Academics, […]

Alternative Energy Racing Organization is a student run group that works for the advocacy, research, and development of alternative energy drive systems. They model themselves as a progressive engineering firm with the primary goal to design, build, test, and race a highly competitive vehicle in the annual International Formula-Hybrid competition sponsored by IEEE and SAE. […]

In the absence of any state aerospace industries, SDSGC established a major partnership with L-3 Communications West (Salt Lake City) in 2011. During FY2018, this partnership included: A) the following two SDSM&T summer 2018 student internships fully-funded by L-3 for a total of $23,751 in L-3 non-federal matching funds: Saige Herbert ($16,595) and Katharine Knott […]

The primary purposes of the Aerospace Outreach Program will be to raise the general level of pre-college and public awareness in aerospace science, design, and technology in the state, and to increase interest, recruitment, and training of the next generation of students in the pursuit of NASA-related fields. The goal will be to support the […]