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Announcements:

 

NASA ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR AERONAUTICS SCHOLARSHIP AWARDS

WASHINGTON -- NASA's Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate will
begin accepting scholarship applications on Sept. 1, 2009, for the
2010 academic year. The application deadline is Jan. 11, 2010.

NASA expects to award 20 undergraduate and five graduate scholarships
to students in aeronautics or related fields.
For details about this scholarship program, including how to apply,
visit:

http://asee.org/nasaasp

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NOTICE FOR SPACE GRANT CONSORTIUM DIRECTORS


Dropping In a Microgravity Environment or DIME is back for high school-aged teams.
"What If No Gravity? or WING" is new this school year for students in grades 6-9 !!!

These are the competitions for students to design, build, and drop an experiment in a microgravity drop tower at the NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio.

The home page for DIME & WING information is:
http://spaceflightsystems.grc.nasa.gov/DIME.html


There is also a YouTube channel with video information about past DIME activities and how the drop tower operates.
http://www.youtube.com/user/dime10nasa

The new e-mail address for inquiries is:
dime@lists.nasa.gov
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The FAA is offering a Design Competition


for Universities for the 2009 – 2010 academic year!   

The Competition guidelines and many resources are posted at the Competition
website:  http://FAADesignCompetition.odu.edu
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