Grant will support students from across the country as they perform research, increase STEM skills
The Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin has received a five-year, $1.3 million grant from NASA that will support the national expansion of a STEM program that gives high school students and teachers the opportunity to use NASA resources and work directly with engineers at UT Austin’s Center for Space Research (CSR).
The grant will support students from across the country to perform research; increase their skills in science, technology, engineering and math; and learn valuable lessons about earth systems from NASA’s fleet of satellites.
Established in 2010 at CSR with funding from NASA Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Science (ROSES) and the Texas Space Grant Consortium, the program has served about 12 students and three teachers each summer since its inception. The new funding will allow CSR to expand the program to 250 students and teachers each summer, grow the student internship program held at CSR and launch a new online earth science high school program.…Read More