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South Dakota Space Grant Consortium
Last updated on April 17, 2008
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Attention Teachers - Register Now - Summer 2008 Robotics Teacher-Training
(Workshops in Rapid City, Sioux Falls, and Pierre)Space Science Educator Workshop - May 28-29, 2008: Pierre, SD
He Sapa Bloketu Woecun (Black Hills Community) - Summer '08 Cultural & Science Field Experience
Click here for ApplicationSD Space Days 2008 - Oct. 16-17, 2008: Watertown Event Center (Watertown, SD). Organized by Lake Area Technical Institute.
* Featured Speaker for Space Days 2008 - Dr. Jack Bacon. Additional details/schedule to be posted when available.
Summer 2008 Space Programs at SDSM&T:
» Space Adventures! Camp (Middle School) - Week long camp for grades 6-8 - July 20-25, 2008
» Space Adventures! Camp (High School) - Week long camp for grades 9-12 - July 27 - Aug. 1, 2008
» A Walk Through Space - For grades 3-5 - August 14, 2008
» A Walk Through Space - For grades 6-8 - August 14, 2008
Kelly Lane Earth and Space Science Grant - 2008 grant winner pictured
The Moon: Back to the Future (University Student Art Contest) - NASA invites college students from the arts, including industrial design, architecture, computer design, and the fine arts, to submit their work on the theme: Life and Work on the Moon.
Phoenix Mars Mission: May 25th scheduled Landing on Mars!
SD Astronaut Mike Fossum's Second Mission to Space (STS-124) - Targeted Launch Date: May 31, 2008
Teacher and School Grant Opportunities - This up-to-the-minute list of grant programs and new funding sources can help you locate those hard-to-find technology dollars.
Attention Undergrad and Grad Students! Web Portal to "all" NASA "Goddard Space Flight Center Office of Higher Education" Internship and Fellowship Programs
Student Summer Research Internships at NASA through Langley Aerospace Research Summer Scholars (LARSS) Program
Honeywell Career and Student Internship/Co-Op Information
Mars Society University Rover Challenge - Over this academic year, teams of university students will design and build the next generation of Mars rovers. In May, 2007 the teams and their rovers will face off in the desert of the American west. The winning team will win transportaion, lodging and admission for 5 team members to the 10th Annual International Mars Society Conference at UCLA in September, 2007, and $5000!
New Aeronautics Competition for the 2006-2007 Academic Year.
Youth Engineering Adventure (YEA) - YEA is a week-long, on-campus program (at SDSM&T and SDSU) for high school students interested in math and science.
SDSU Grooms Indian Students (SDSU/Flandreau Indian School "Success Academy")
NASA Science - NASA's Science Mission Directorate has launched this new Web site that provides enhanced and engaging information about NASA's vast scope of scientific endeavors and achievements.
NASA Education Associates Program - offers college and university students and faculty the opportunity to experience science and technology in the unique environment of NASA. It will be a hands-on experience at a NASA center working with NASA scientists, engineers and program managers on a NASA project.
NASA's Voyager Spacecraft (launched in 1977) Enters Solar System's Final Frontier
NASA Science and Technology Scholarship Program - Anticipated to provide full tuition leading up to a 4-year degree in Science, Math, Engineering or Technology
Powers of 10 - View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude and enter then enter the microscopic world!
Educator Astronaut Program
Earth Crew - Each Earth Crew is comprised of students, teachers, and other adults dedicated to supporting the Educator Astronauts as they prepare for and explore space.Stardust Mission - NASA's amazing mission to capture comet dust and return it to Earth!
Solar System Ambassador Program
Click here for info on SD's Ambassador Fernando NinoEver wondered what everyday technologies were developed as a result of the Space Program? Since NASA's inception in 1958, technologies resulting from the space program have introduced hundreds of new or improved products and processes to the American consumer.
SDSU-Flandreau Indian School (FIS) Success Academy (where all students are "honored" students) - An early and intensive college preparatory program for Native American high school students.
ACE Camp at SDSU - Aerospace Career Education (ACE) Camp is for high school students who want to find out first hand about aerospace, aviation, and related careers.
South Dakota "Science on the Move" - Two mobile science trucks will be available to schools, along with instructors, to present a variety of science lessons to students. The goal of Science on the Move is to bring Science and technology to the students as an extension of their regular classroom.
Science Fair Projects for all Students! - Hundreds of ideas for every science topic, from Astronomy to Zoology!
Earth & Sky Radio Series - Discussion of popular science subjects that affect our everyday lives.
NASA student competition for Revolutionary Vehicles - Sponsored by NASA's Aerospace Vehicle Systems Technology Office. University and High School divisions are available.
NASA Ames "Education Associates Program" - Linking students and faculty with projects at NASA Ames Research Center.
Team America Rocketry Challenge - The first national model rocket competition for U.S. high school and junior high school students. Participating students are challenged to design, build, and fly a multi-stage model rocket that take two raw eggs and an electronic altimeter to exactly 1500 feet and returns the eggs intact. Five winning student teams will share a total prize pool of approximately $50,000 in savings bonds and their supervising teachers’ departments will share $9,000 in cash. More info here.
"Create the Future" Design Contest - Engineering students can help create the future by entering the first-ever Emhart Design Contest, featuring a top prize of $20,000 or a high-tech automobile. See Contest Movie.
Marsoweb - an interactive Web site developed by NASA helps scientists select suitable landing sites for future missions to Mars.
NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR)
Sioux Empire Astronomy Club - The Sioux Empire Astronomy Club located in Sioux Falls, SD is a group interested in astronomy and teaching elementary students the basics of astronomy.
TerraFly - Virtually "fly" over the entire U.S. Enter your zip code or street address and find your home!
"Solar Events" Homepage - The "Sun-Earth Connection" Education Forum.
» Downloadable Slide Presentations: Sun-Earth Connection (for K-12 grade levels)Proposed National Underground Science Laboratory at Homestake
Hubble Space Telescope website
» Hubble's "New Views of the Universe"Earth from Space - Excellent Earth Photos taken by astronauts aboard NASA Space Shuttle. Over 315,000 images!
EarthKAM - a NASA sponsored program that provides stunning, high quality photographs of our planet taken from the Space Shuttle and International Space Station.
Nighttime Satellite Image of Earth - Showing that dark skies are a vanishing natural resource in developed countries.
MISR at Atmospheric Sciences Data Center, NASA Langley Research Center - MISR (Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer) is part of NASA's Terra spacecraft, launched into sun-synchronous polar orbit on December 18, 1999. MISR measurements are designed to improve our understanding of the Earth's environment and climate. Viewing the sunlit Earth simultaneously at nine widely spaced angles, MISR provides radiometrically and geometrically calibrated images in four spectral bands at every angle. New algorithms for the retrieval of atmospheric aerosol, cloud, and surface geophysical properties have been implemented to capitalize on this unique observational capability.
Astronomical Society of the Pacific - Books, posters, classroom aides, gifts, globes, slides, videotapes, software, etc.
SPACEDAILY - Your Portal to Space
SpaceWeather.com - Science news and information about the Sun-Earth environment
