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NASA Space Place. targeting upper-elementary aged children. Launched in 1998, [2][3] it was the first NASA website to create content about multiple missions directly for children. It has its own url, and it also serves as the kids' portion of the NASA Science Mission Directorate website. [4]
Reach: A Space Podcast for Kids is produced by Soundsington Media. Background. The podcast is created by Sandy Marshall and Nate DuFort as an outreach project of Solar System Ambassadors. The show is produced by Soundsington Media. The show features interviews with astronauts and engineers, and includes activities for the listeners.
Star Walk. Star Walk is an educational astronomy smartphone app developed by Vito Technology which allows users to explore celestial objects in real-time. The application was released in 2009 and is compatible with iOS, Android, and Windows devices. Star Walk has been downloaded by over 10 million users worldwide ever since its release.
Osmo is a line of hands-on educational digital/physical games product by the company Tangible Play, based in Palo Alto, California.Osmo's products are built around its proprietary “Reflective Artificial Intelligence,” a system that uses a stand and a clip-on mirror to allow an iPad or iPhone's front-facing camera to recognize and track objects in the physical play space in front of the device.
The program was launched in June 2010, by NCESSE in the U.S. and by the Clarke Institute internationally. [3] As of 2018, SSEP has sponsored fourteen missions to LEO – two on board the Space Shuttle, and twelve to the ISS – with a thirteenth mission to the ISS announced in March 2018, and expected to fly in the spring/summer of 2019.
The NASA International Space Apps Challenge is the largest global annual hackathon. This two-day event provides an opportunity for participants to utilize NASA's free and open data and its Space Agency Partners' space-based data to address real-world problems on Earth and in space. During the hackathon, NASA Space Apps Challenge participants ...
Space Camp is a "six-day" (really four-and-a-half days -- Sunday afternoon through Friday 9am) program offered for children between 9 and 11 years old. Children study space, aviation, and robotics. Space Academy is intended for ages 12–14 and is also offered in six-day sessions. Advanced Space Academy is designed for 15 to 18-year-olds.
The National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program was established in 1988 by the US Congress following the success of similar scholarship opportunities in the oceanic Sea Grant and agricultural Land Grant fields. The catch-all term Space Grant refers back to these previous federal programs. In 1989, the program was given over to NASA ...