Finding Your Fit as an emerging STEM Researcher and Scholar of Color in Higher Education Webinar
This FREE 1-hr webinar is presented to offer information and resources to forge personal and professional development as a STEM researcher and scholar in higher education. Aligned with the McKnight Doctoral Fellowship Program’s mission to address the underrepresentation of African American and Hispanic faculty at colleges and universities by increasing the pool of citizens qualified […]
2022 Aerospace Valley Open House, Air Show and STEM Expo
In NASA STEM Engagement, we deliver tools for students and educators to learn and succeed. We seek to: Create unique opportunities for a diverse set of students to contribute to NASA’s work in exploration and discovery. Build a diverse future STEM workforce by engaging students in authentic learning experiences with NASA’s people, content and facilities. Attract […]
Explore Earth Webinar Series for Educators
Join NASA STEM EPDC and My NASA Data for a webinar series. The webinar series will feature My NASA Data’s Earth System Story Maps, which are an immersive means of storytelling by combining rich narrative text with interactive maps and NASA data, along with other multimedia content like images and videos in a 5E Model […]
Pre-College Institute for Recruiting and Inclusion for STEM for MSIs (PRISM)
Southeast Regional EPDC Education Specialist, Dr. Vemitra White-Alexander, presented to 15 high school aged students that participated in Alabama A&M University’s Pre-College Institute. The Pre-College Institute for Recruiting and Inclusion for STEM for MSIs (PRISM) was a 3-week residential program that offered the students learning activities designed to increase their STEM efficacy and identity, improve […]
PSJA Thomas Jefferson T-STEM Early College High School
The Collaborative Learning Leader, Dr. Yvonne Gomez, and the principal of the PSJA Thomas Jefferson T-STEM Early College High School, Sylvia Lizcano reached out to the JSC EPDC specialist to discuss potential future partnerships with NASA. The school serves Pharr, TX. Pharr has a 94.3% Hispanic population and 29.1% of the population of the area […]
Special Event Newsflash
We continue developing new education resources and hosting events that educators can use with their students. These new resources and key events will be advertised here. In the meantime, please check our complete list of webinars here: txstate-epdc.net/event-post.
NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement Welcomes Minority Serving Institution Fellows
NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement recognizes that participant diversity in our programs is advantageous in every aspect. In 2020, an Intergovernmental Personnel Act opportunity was piloted to recruit and select two minority serving institution (MSI) faculty members for a two-year rotation. NASA’s Office of STEM Engagement welcomes Dr. Araceli Martinez-Ortiz from Texas State University and […]