NASA’ s Office of Education - Development of a Massively Multiplayer Online Game - Proposals Due June 18, 2008
NASA’s Office of Education is seeking proposals for collaboration with an organization to enhance NASA’s ability to achieve its educational goals by creating and managing a Massively Multiplayer Online game. The goal of this game is to enhance science, technology, engineering and mathematics education by combining NASA-based content that draws and holds young people’s attention with fun and challenging game play. The primary audience for this MMO game will be students from the middle school level through college.
This request will result in the establishment of a non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement (defined as one with no exchange of funds) that will define the full roles and responsibilities of NASA and the proposing organization. A follow on call for education experts to work with the project is expected in June 2008. Proposals are due June 18, 2008.
For more information about this opportunity, visit http://prod.nais.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eps/synopsis.cgi?acqid=129682
2008 NASA Means Business Student Competition for Undergraduate and Graduate Students
NASA Means Business Student Competition 2008 Program Announcement
The NASA Means Business Student Competition program invites undergraduate and graduate students to employ their skills to help NASA articulate the contributions of space exploration to everyday life.
This year’s challenge is: Help NASA to increase the number of corporate researchers, university researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors who utilize the Nation’s investment in spaceflight to grow their investments in knowledge and commerce.
Specifically, participating teams will compete by designing and preparing a NASA Spaceflight Promotion Plan and illustrative flagship promotion projects including a fully implemented Internet Solution with a 20-second promotional video and other concept design/media elements.
We are particularly interested in teams with a wide range of capability, including the traditional engineering and natural sciences students as well as advertising, marketing, communication, radio-television-film, journalism and other similar professions. And, we strongly encourage teams from underrepresented institutions, and teams that include students from underrepresented institutions, to submit proposals!
Finalist teams will receive cash awards and behind-the-scenes tours of both the Johnson Space Center in Texas and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Members of the Grand Prize team will also be flown to Washington, D.C., to present their work to NASA Headquarters officials.
The Competition Guidelines are posted at: http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/nmb/
High Altitude Student Platform (HASP) 2008 Call for Payloads Released
HASP 2008 Call for Payloads Released
http://laspace.lsu.edu/hasp/Participantinfo.html
The Louisiana Space Consortium, in coordination with the NASA Balloon Program Office, has released a call for student payloads for the 2008 flight of the High Altitude Student Platform (HASP). HASP carries up to 12 student payloads to the edge of space (~124,000 feet) for durations up to 20 hours using a large helium filled balloon. This call follows the recent successful second HASP flight on September 2, 2007 where 10 student payloads were exposed to the near space environment for about 16 1/2 hours.
Details can be found at
http://laspace.lsu.edu/hasp/index.html
Applications Being Accepted for Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities
NASA’s Reduced Gravity Student Flight Opportunities Project provides a unique academic experience for undergraduate students to successfully propose, design, fabricate, fly and evaluate a reduced-gravity experiment. The overall experience includes scientific research, hands-on experimental design, test operations, and educational and public outreach activities.
The reduced-gravity aircraft generally flies 30 parabolic maneuvers over the Gulf of Mexico. This parabolic pattern provides about 30 seconds of hypergravity (about 1.8-g’s to 2-g’s) as the plane climbs to the top of the parabola. Once the plane starts to “nose over” the top of the parabola to descend toward Earth, the plane experiences about 25 seconds of microgravity.
Interested students should submit a letter of intent by Sept. 19, 2007. The letter of intent is optional, but serves as an introductory notice that a team plans to submit a proposal for the upcoming competition. Final proposals are due Oct. 31, 2007.
For more information, visit: http://microgravityuniversity.jsc.nasa.gov/
NASA Creates New Website Feature For Student and Educator Opportunities
April 23, 2007, 3:51 pm
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NASA Announces New Student Opportunities Podcasts
NASA has a new education podcast series for high school and college students interested in participating in NASA learning opportunities.
NASA Student Opportunities is a weekly audio podcast that features interviews with students who have received NASA internships, fellowships or scholarships. Students share their experiences and offer suggestions for students who are interested in pursuing NASA learning opportunities.
The podcasts also provide information about upcoming learning opportunities and application deadlines.
For more information, and to learn how to subscribe to this free podcast and have it automatically delivered to your computer, visit http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/podcasting/education/ED_NSO.html.
NASA Astrobiology Institute Research Scholarship
The NASA Astrobiology Institute maintains a variety of funding opportunities. These support the NAI mission objectives of interdisciplinary and collaborative research, the training and establishment of young astrobiologists, and the development and advancement of the overall astrobiology community. One of these opportunities is the NAI Research Scholarship.
The NAI Research Scholarship Project offers research-related travel support to enable graduate or postdoctoral students to circulate among two or more NAI teams or participating institutions of the NAI. Requests are limited to $5,000 and are accepted on a continuous basis.
For more information, visit http://nai.arc.nasa.gov/funding/index.cfm#nrs
Proposals for Summer Sabbaticals Being Accepted Until April 2, 2007
The NASA Astrobiology Institute Minority Institution Research Support project provides opportunities for researchers from qualified minority institutions to initiate joint partnerships with researchers in the field of astrobiology. Applications are currently being accepted for summer sabbatical opportunities. Selected researchers will complete a 6- to 10-week research fellowship in astrobiology.
The applicant must be a faculty member at a U.S. college or university designated as a minority institution by the U.S. Department of Education. Applicants must also be U.S. citizens to be eligible.
Selected faculty and researchers will be funded for the summer of 2007 to engage in a sabbatical focused on research in astrobiology. The proposals for summer sabbaticals are due April 2, 2007.
For more information on the project and how to submit a proposal, visit http://www.nai-mirs.org/
Earth System Science Education Alliance Request for Proposals
The Institute for Global Environmental Strategies is accepting proposals from colleges, universities and other educational institutions to participate in the Earth System Science Education Alliance. ESSEA is a professional development program for pre-service and in-service middle and high school teachers.
Selected institutions will receive funding and training to offer a series of online Earth system science courses geared toward teachers of specific grade levels and aligned to national science education standards. Working in collaborative groups, teachers who enroll in an ESSEA course can earn undergraduate, graduate or continuing education credit while learning to teach Earth system science using inquiry-based classroom methods.
A notice of intent to propose, which is strongly recommended but not mandatory, is due by March 19, 2007. Proposals are due by April 18, 2007.
For more information, including proposal instructions, technology requirements and current ESSEA course list, please visit http://essea.strategies.org/
