For Students Grades 5-8
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Hear from Astronauts on the ISS
Watch astronauts on the International Space Station answer student questions during a live Q&A session with Jack and Jill of America, Southern Region. Event Date: June 26
Asteroid Day
Celebrate Asteroid Day by finding out how to tell the difference between asteroids, comets, meteors, meteorites and other bodies in our solar system. Event Date: June 30
NASA's Astrophoto Challenge – Summer 2024
Join NASA's Universe of Learning for an exciting opportunity to use real astronomical data and tools to create your own beautiful images of Cassiopeia A. Explore how this dynamic dead star behaves across different types of light. Or just create an image that you think is beautiful. Deadline: Aug. 5
2024 NASA International Space Apps Challenge Hackathon
The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is a hackathon for coders, scientists, designers, storytellers, makers, technologists, and innovators around the world to come together and use open data from NASA and its Space Agency Partners to create solutions to challenges we face on Earth and in space. Event Date: Oct. 5-6
2025 Drop Tower Challenge – Paddle Wheel
Student teams are invited to design and build paddle wheels that will turn in water because of the wetting properties of their surfaces when they are exposed to microgravity. Paddle wheels from selected teams will be tested in the 2.2 Second Drop Tower at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. Proposal Deadline: Oct. 31
Read the Latest Issue of Astrobiology: The Story of Our Search for Life in the Universe
Are you curious about the origin of life on Earth and the potential for life beyond our planet? Explore the story of life in the Universe – or at least the story as we know it so far – with this series of graphic novels about the history of astrobiology.