TEAM II / CP4SMPVC: Stories From the Field
NASA’s Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) program has selected four informal education organizations to promote STEM learning and help inspire the next generation of explorers. The projects provide students the opportunity to engage in NASA’s Moon to Mars exploration approach through science, technology, engineering, and math, and aim to reach populations that are historically underrepresented in STEM professions.
Exploration Place was one of seven museums to receive accolades in the 31st annual Excellence in Exhibition Competition, presented by the American Alliance of Museums at the organization’s Annual Meeting.
NASA’s Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) has selected three additional informal education organizations to supplement the initial group selected in June 2018. The selected projects promote STEM learning to inspire the next generation of explorers.These additional projects, selected from 43 proposals through a peer reviewed process, will be implemented over the next two to three years. The value of each project is approximately $750,000. The TEAM II selection of over $2 million will be awarded to these newly selected projects from the organizations:
Destination Mars: The New Frontier Explores Humankind's Efforts to Reach the Red Planet.
NASA’s Teams Engaging Affiliated Museums and Informal Institutions (TEAM II) has selected three informal education organizations to promote science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) learning to inspire the next generation of explorers.
The TEAM II solicitation of approximately $2 million will be awarded to the selected projects from the organizations:
On April 25, 2018, students with Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden’s Growing Beyond Earth Project spoke with NASA astronauts Ricky Arnold and Drew Feustel, who are living and working aboard the International Space Station.The Expedition 55 astronauts answered questions about life aboard the space station, NASA’s deep space exploration plans and conducting science in space. The Earth-to-space call aired live on NASA Television and the agency’s website.
Lunar Caves Analog Test Sites (LCATS) is a Space-STEM learning curriculum that engages a pipeline of motivated middle and high school students and has them assisting aerospace professionals in solving real-world space exploration technology development challenges through investigations of science experiments, space exploration mission operations, technology development, and habitability system architectures.
Pacific Science Center wanted to engage their many audiences -- the public, school-aged children, teens -- with the topic of remote sensing. It is unfamiliar to many, but the ability to obtain information from a distance has countless direct applications to our daily lives. They especially wanted to encourage interest in the wide field of remote-sensing careers, particularly among groups underrepresented in STEM fields.
For people living in southern and eastern Oregon, visiting the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) means a sixteen-hour road trip. For OMSI then, serving rural communities with STEM content means taking the show on the road.
FLIGHT at Edventure Children's Museum in Columbia, South Carolina incorporates real airplane elements throughout the exhibit - including right through a wall! In addition to "flying" the Boeing 757 emerging from the side of the building, visitors experience a learning theater made from airplane fuselage sides and seats, a child-sized wind tunnel, "Flight School" with Boeing 777 simulators, an airplane manufacturing robot, a paper airplane test flight station, and more.
