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As part of NASA's National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program, we are funded to promote aerospace-related research, education, and public service programs to encourage a Diverse Workforce. This is accomplished through a national network of colleges, universities, industry and federal agency partners.
The Nebraska Space Grant offers several Funding Opportunities, including mini-grants and travel grants. Through our Higher Education and Public Programs, we focus on teacher training and workforce development. Additionally, we support NASA Education's Pathfinder Initiatives.
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Capt. Mark Kelly Delivers University of Nebraska-Lincoln's Peter J. Hoagland Integrity in Public Service Lecture Series
Capt. Mark Kelly was UNL's Peter J. Hoagland Intergrity in Public Service Lecture Series presenter. The lecture took place on the UNL campus on Monday, January 23rd. This event was sponsored by the NU Foundation and NASA Nebraska Space Grant. Read More.
RockOn Workshop
The NASA Nebraska Space Grant is interested in funding a team to attend the RockOn Workshop this year. A team should be comprised of a college or university faculty member and 2 undergraduate or graduate students who are interested in attending this workshop, and spending the next year developing a payload to launch in the second phase next year. Those interested should contact Mike Helgerson at mhelgerson@unomaha.edu
RockOn 2012 University Rocket Science Workshop
Audience: Higher Education Educators and Students
Registration Deadline: May 1, 2012
Workshop Dates: June 16-21, 2012
U.S. university faculty and students are invited to a weeklong workshop to learn how to build and launch a scientific experiment into space. NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is hosting the RockOn 2012 workshop June 16-21, 2012, in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia. The registration deadline for the workshop is May 1, 2012.
The hands-on workshop teaches participants to build experiments that fly on sounding rockets. During the week, participants will work together in teams of three to construct and integrate a sounding rocket payload from a kit. On the fifth day of the workshop, the experiments will fly on a sounding rocket expected to reach an altitude of more than 70 miles.
Each experiment will provide valuable scientific data, analyzed as part of the student-led science and engineering research. The program engages faculty and students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills critical to NASA's future engineering, scientific and technical missions.
For more information about RockOn and to register online, visit http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/rockon/2012/index_2011.html.
Questions about the workshop or the registration process should be directed to Chris Koehler by email at koehler@colorado.edu or by telephone at 303-492-3141.
Nebraska Student Rocket Team to Take NASA Launch Challenge
More than 500 students from middle schools, high schools, colleges and universities in 29 states will show their rocketeering prowess in the 2011-12 NASA Student Launch Projects flight challenge. The teams will build and test large-scale rockets of their own design in April 2012.
NASA created the twin Student Launch Projects to spark students' imaginations, challenge their problem-solving skills and give them real-world experience. The project aims to complement the science, mathematics and engineering lessons they study in the classroom. Read Full Article.
Pleasanton and Norris High Schools in NE Microgravity Experiment Selected to Fly in March 2012 to Internationl Space Station
The National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in partnership with NanoRacks, LLC, announces the selection of 15 microgravity experiments to fly to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard Soyuz 30, scheduled for launch in March 2012. The experiments were selected as part of Mission 1 to ISS, the third flight opportunity provided by America’s Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP). The first two flight opportunities were on the final flights of Shuttles Endeavour and Atlantis. Pleasanton and Norris High School's experiement entitled, "Escherichia coli in Microgravity" studies the effects of microgravity on the DNA of pathogenic bacteria. Read More. SSEP Program Video Clip.
NASA Selects Student Teams for Microgravity Research Flights
WASHINGTON -- NASA has selected 24 undergraduate student teams to test science experiments under microgravity conditions. The teams will fly during 2012 as part of the agency's Reduced Gravity Education Flight Program (RGEFP).
The teams will design and build their experiments at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston and conduct tests aboard an aircraft modified to mimic a reduced-gravity environment. The aircraft will fly approximately 30 parabolas with roller-coaster-like climbs and dips to produce periods of weightlessness and hyper-gravity ranging from 0 to 2g's.
The 2012 SEED teams are from Carthage College, Georgia Institute of Technology, Northwest Nazarene University, Oklahoma State University, University of Houston-Clear Lake, San Jacinto College, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Washington University in St. Louis and Yale University. Read Full Article.
Link to another news article entitled, "UNL Team chosen to work with NASA."
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