“Space weather scientist Liz MacDonald has seen auroras more than five times in her life, but it was the aurora she didn’t see that affected her the most. On the evening of…
Annual 'Robots to Rocket City' Event at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center
“Twenty middle and high school teams across Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi will demonstrate their student-built robots during the annual “Robots to Rocket City” at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration, located at…
ESA Fly Your Thesis! 2017 Call for Proposals
ESA Education is inviting university student teams to submit proposals related to designing, building and flying their experiment in a parabolic flight campaign, which is tentatively scheduled to take place in autumn…
UK Students Can Send Their Computer Code Into Space
New Chance For UK Students To Send Their Computer Code Into Space For Tim Peake “Following the success of the ‘Astro Pi’ competition, there is a new competition offering UK school children…
Star Trek Replicator Challenge
Star Trek Replicator Challenge “Calling all Starfleet cadets! Star Trek and NASA want you to engineer the future of food in space. If you are a K-12 student in the United States,…
MIT, Boeing, NASA, and edX Offer MOOC
MIT, Boeing, NASA, and edX to launch online architecture and systems engineering program MIT is collaborating with Boeing and NASA to develop a four-part online, certificate-based program: “Architecture and Systems Engineering: Models…
Crowdsouring Planet Hunters X. KIC 8462852 – Where's the Flux?
Over the duration of the Kepler mission, KIC 8462852 was observed to undergo irregularly shaped, aperiodic dips in flux down to below the 20% level. The dipping activity can last for between…
How Astronomers View Education and Public Outreach
Over the past few years, there have been a few studies on the development of an interest in science and scientists’ views on public outreach. Yet, to date, there has been no…
2016 Space Life Sciences Training Program
The Space Life Sciences Training Program (SLSTP) is seeking student applications for the 2016 summer program, which will run from June 13 to August 19, 2016 at NASA Ames Research Center. The…
Lee Sang Gak Telescope (LSGT): A Remotely Operated Robotic Telescope for Education and Research at Seoul National University
We introduce the Lee Sang Gak Telescope (LSGT), a remotely operated, robotic 0.43-meter telescope. The telescope was installed at the Siding Spring Observatory, Australia, in 2014 October, to secure regular and exclusive…
Perspectives on astronomy: probing Norwegian pre-service teachers and middle school students
We report on ongoing work to gain insight into the astronomy knowledge and perspectives of pre-service teachers and middle school students in Norway. We carefully adapted and translated into Norwegian an existing…
Science Learning via Participation in Online Citizen Science
We investigate the development of scientific content knowledge of volunteers participating in online citizen science projects in the Zooniverse (www.zooniverse.org), including the astronomy projects Galaxy Zoo (www.galaxyzoo.org) and Planet Hunters (www.planethunters.org). We…