NASA’s TechRise Student Challenge invites U.S. students in grades 6 to 12 to submit ideas for experiments to be launched on high-altitude research balloons. Some 60 winning teams will receive $1,500 to build their experiments plus an assigned berth for their payloads on a NASA balloon flight.

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Talk about “high impact” engineering! On September 26, NASA intentionally crashed a small spacecraft into an asteroid, providing the world’s first full-scale demonstration of planetary defense missions to deflect potential near-Earth hazards.

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A prototype asteroid explorer developed by University of Central Florida engineers and Honeybee Robotics mines water from the asteroid’s soil for propulsion.

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Celebrate the contributions of science and engineering on World Space Week October 4 to 10 with hands-on classroom activities and global events!

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It towered for centuries over Teotihuacán, the largest city in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. Today, Mexico’s famed Pyramid of the Sun risks slowly sinking and crumbling like a sand castle.

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Tufts University students took to the beach for a fun, hands-on lesson in engineering design, creativity, and materials science.

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Find in-person and online engineering education offerings for kids as young as pre-kindergarten on the new interactive map created by ASEE’s Pre-College Engineering Education Division. 

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From climate change to energy to ecosystems, sustainability is among the main multidisciplinary themes stressed by the Next Generation Science Standards. Here are some resources for teachers.

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The Knowles Teacher Initiative, an immersive professional learning community for P-12 STEM teachers, is offering free, short online courses throughout the school year. Register for the May 9. 19, and 26, 2022 courses.

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