nasa approach to stem collaboration

Adrian Gardner, CIO NASA Goddard Space

Flight CenterMay 8, 2012

Educating Our Leaders of Tomorrow

National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) est. 1958

White Sands Test Facility

Stennis Space Center (SSC)

Plum Brook Station (PBS)

Wallops Flight Facility (WFF)

Goddard Institute of Space Studies(GISS)

Ames Research Center (ARC)

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC) Kennedy Space

Center (KSC)Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)

Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)

NASA Headquarters (HQ)

Langley Research Center (LaRC)

IV & V Facility(IV&V)

10 Centers7 Facilities19,134 civil servants30,000+ contractors

Glenn Research Center (GRC)

NASA Administrator, Gen. Charles Bolden Jr.

Vision: To reach for new heights and reveal the unknown so that what we do and learn will benefit all humankind.

Michoud Assembly Facility (MAF)

NASA Shared Services Center (NSSC)

NASA Chief Information Officer, Linda Cureton

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is home to the nation's largest organization of combined scientists, engineers and technologists that build spacecraft, instruments and new technology to study the Earth, the sun, our solar system, and the universe.

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NASA Education Vision Statement

To advance high quality STEM education using NASA’s unique capabilities

STEM Education Framework

Relevance NASA Content Diversity Evaluation Continuity Partnership/Sustainability

Engage

Inspire

Identify, cultivate, and sustain a diverse workforce and inclusive work environment that is needed to conduct NASA missions Employ

EducateEngage the public in NASA’s missions by providing new pathways for participation.

Inform, engage, and inspire the public by sharing NASA’s mission, challenges, and results.

Build strategic partnerships that promote STEM literacy through formal and informal means.

Learners

Educators

Institutions

OutcomesAudiences

Operating Principles

- Teachers

- Faculty

- Students

3/30/03

- NASA Education Programs

- NASA Career related decisions

NASA STEM Education Ecosystem

DOE, NSF, NIH, OSTP, USDA

Federal STEM Education Portfolio Priorities:

1.Effective K-12 STEM Teacher Education

2.Engagement in STEM

3.Undergraduate STEM Education

4.Serving Groups Traditionally Underrepresented in

STEM fields

Federal STEM Collaboration

STEM Partnerships…Reaching Learners, Educators and Institutions

STEM Partnerships…Building the Future Together

Will.I.Am

LEGO

Univision

• Over 45,000 students

• Over 5,500 educators

• Camps and activities in 46 states, D.C. and Puerto Rico.

• NASA’s Summer of Innovation leverages NASA-unique research and discovery as a powerful context for STEM engagement during the summer months.

• Summer of Innovation inspires middle school students and sparks their imaginations and interests using the excitement of NASA’s missions.

Summer of Innovation Reach in 2011

Hands-on STEM Activities Engage Students

“Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand.”

Great Moonbuggy Race

FIRST Robotics

NASA Internships, Fellowships and Scholarships

NASA Student Ambassadors...Why Being a NASA Intern is Cool!

www.intern.nasa.gov

International Space Station…Educating Students in STEM

NASA Educator Outreach

NASA CORE

NASA Explorer Schools

Digital Learning Network

Ways to Obtain NASA Education Materials

View and download from NASA website

www.nasa.gov/education

Visit a NASA Educator Resource Center (ERC)

www.nasa.gov/education/ercn

Purchase materials from the Central Operations of

Resources for Educators (CORE)

www.nasa.gov/education/core

or

Contact Dr. Mabel Matthews, Office of Education, <mabel.j.matthews@nasa.gov>

Looking Towards the Future: Opportunities for the Next Generation

International Space Station New Space Launch System

Mars Science Laboratory NASA’s Orion