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Eche un vistazo a las últimas oportunidades de la NASA para la comunidad educativa. Super Bowl Fun Fact -- #TeacherOnBoard Audience: All Educators and Students Contact: JSC-STEMonStation@mail.nasa.gov Did you know the International Space Station, where #TeacherOnBoard Joe Acaba lives and works, is about the same size as the football field that the Philadelphia Eagles and New England Patriots will play on in the Super Bowl? The space station is so big it can be spotted easily with the naked eye. Just go to the Spot the Station website and enter the name of your town to find out when the station will be overhead in your area. It’s that easy -- no telescopes or special equipment needed. Challenge your family, friends and neighbors to spot the station -- and be sure to wave at Joe and the rest of the crew! Find more ways to bring NASA into your classroom during NASA’s A Year of Education on Station, a celebration of an almost 12-month presence of a teacher on board the International Space Station. ISS YES: It's All About the Numbers -- Math Resources Linked to ISS Audience: Educators of Grades 4-9 Event Date: Feb. 5, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. EST Contact: john.f.weis@nasa.gov Join the NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University for free 60-minute webinar. Participants will get an overview of NASA mathematics resources related to the International Space Station. Discussion will focus on how to modify and integrate activities into existing curriculum. This webinar addresses multiple standards of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics. Online registration is required. ISS YES: Teamwork Strategies Audience: Educators of Grades K-12 Event Date: Feb. 8, 2018, at 5 p.m. EST Contact: susan.m.kohler@nasa.gov Join the NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University for free 60-minute webinar. Learn how NASA helps crew members develop skills to prepare to live and work together during space missions. The webinar’s activities help students learn and practice skills applicable in everyday life. Activities on the following topics will be presented: Self Care/Team Care, Cultural Competency, Leadership/Followship and Teamwork Communication. Online registration is required. NASA Education Call for Reviewers for Informal STEM Education Proposals, Plus New FAQs Posted Audience: Formal and Informal Educators, Other Experts Deadline: Feb. 28, 2018 Contact: TEAMII@jpl.nasa.gov NASA is actively recruiting qualified peer reviewers to externally review NASA TEAM II proposals during winter/spring 2018. A diverse reviewer pool is sought, including but not limited to practicing or retired informal education leadership, managers, educators, and evaluators (e.g., K-12; informal; youth groups; public outreach), scientists, engineers, higher education faculty, and other experts. Selected reviewers will be expected to disclose all conflicts of interest, including situations that may give the appearance of bias. To view the NASA Research Announcement, including new FAQs, visithttps://go.nasa.gov/2mhfTnS. Free Tour at NASA's Glenn Research Center: The Slope Lab -- Explore Locomotion on Planets Audience: All Educators and Students Registration Opens: March 14, 2018 Event Date: April 14, 2018 Contact: grc-tours@mail.nasa.gov NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, offers 45-minute tours that take tourists behind the scenes to one of the center’s test facilities. On April 14, visit the Simulated Lunar Operations (SLOPE) Laboratory where exploration tires for rovers are tested. A bus departs from NASA’s main gate every hour beginning at 9 a.m. The last tour departs at noon. RESERVATIONS are required. Free Tour at NASA's Glenn Research Center: Breeze by the 10- by 10-Foot Wind Tunnel Audience: All Educators and Students Registration Opens: April 12, 2018 Event Date: May 12, 2018 Contact: grc-tours@mail.nasa.gov NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, offers 45-minute tours that take tourists behind the scenes to one of the center’s test facilities. On May 12, visit the 10- by 10-foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel that conducts propulsion testing at supersonic speeds. Learn about this lab’s connections to NASA’s Apollo program and man’s first step on the moon. A bus departs from NASA’s main gate every hour beginning at 9 a.m. The last tour departs at noon. RESERVATIONS are required. Free Tour at NASA's Glenn Research Center: Go Under the Dome of Silence -- the Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Lab Audience: All Educators and Students Registration Opens: May 9, 2018 Event Date: June 9, 2018 Contact: grc-tours@mail.nasa.gov NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, offers 45-minute tours that take tourists behind the scenes to one of the center’s test facilities. On June 9, visit the Aero-Acoustic Propulsion Laboratory and see where some of the world’s most advanced aircraft noise-reduction ideas are developed and tested. A bus departs from NASA’s main gate every hour beginning at 9 a.m. The last tour departs at noon. RESERVATIONS are required. Free Tour at NASA's Glenn Research Center: Graphics and Visualization Lab and the Virtual Reality Exploration Lab Audience: All Educators and Students Registration Opens: June 14, 2018 Event Date: July 14, 2018 Contact: grc-tours@mail.nasa.gov NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, offers 45-minute tours that take tourists behind the scenes to one of the center’s test facilities. On July 14, check out the Graphics & Visualization (GVIS) Laboratory and the Reconfigurable User-interface & Virtual Reality Exploration (GRUVE) Laboratory to see things a different way. A bus departs from NASA’s main gate every hour beginning at 9 a.m. The last tour departs at noon.RESERVATIONS are required. Free Tour at NASA's Glenn Research Center: See the Light of Solar Cells -- the Photovoltaic Lab Audience: All Educators and Students Registration Opens: July 11, 2018 Event Date: Aug. 11, 2018 Contact: grc-tours@mail.nasa.gov NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, offers 45-minute tours that take tourists behind the scenes to one of the center’s test facilities. On Aug. 11, visit Glenn’s Photovoltaic Lab where researchers are studying ways to turn light into electrical energy and developing technology that can power everything from homes to spacecraft. A bus departs from NASA’s main gate every hour beginning at 9 a.m. The last tour departs at noon. RESERVATIONS are required. Free Tour at NASA's Glenn Research Center: Explore NASA’s Drop Zone -- the Zero Gravity Research Facility Audience: All Educators and Students Registration Opens: Aug. 8, 2018 Event Date: Sept. 8, 2018 Contact: grc-tours@mail.nasa.gov NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, offers 45-minute tours that take tourists behind the scenes to one of the center’s test facilities. On Sept. 8, explore the Zero Gravity Research Facility, which puts payloads into a free fall for five seconds as they drop over 400 feet. A bus departs from NASA’s main gate every hour beginning at 9 a.m. The last tour departs at noon. RESERVATIONS are required. Free Tour at NASA's Glenn Research Center: Go With the Flow in the 8- by 6-Foot Wind Tunnel Audience: All Educators and Students Registration Opens: Sept. 13, 2018 Event Date: Oct. 13, 2018 Contact: grc-tours@mail.nasa.gov NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio, offers 45-minute tours that take tourists behind the scenes to one of the center’s test facilities. On Oct. 13, tour the 8- by 6-foot Supersonic Wind Tunnel, which has contributed to decades of aeronautic research and is testing models for the next generation of supersonic aircraft. A bus departs from NASA’s main gate every hour beginning at 9 a.m. The last tour departs at noon. RESERVATIONS are required. New Resource: CubeSat 101 -- Basic Concepts and Processes for First-Time CubeSat Developers Audience: K-12 and Higher Education Educators and Students Contact: Carol.A.Galica@nasa.gov Do you want to start a CubeSat program and launch a small satellite? The CubeSat Launch Initiative gives students, teachers and faculty a chance to get hands-on, flight hardware development experience while designing, building and operating small research satellites. This opportunity is open to U.S. nonprofit organizations and accredited educational organizations. Download the new “CubeSat 101” guide to learn more. ISS YES: Toys in Space -- Basic Physics in Microgravity Audience: Educators of Grades 5-12 Event Date: Feb. 1, 2018, at 6:30 p.m. EST Contact: john.f.weis@nasa.gov Join the NASA STEM Educator Professional Development Collaborative at Texas State University for free 60-minute webinar. Participants will get an overview of NASA’s International Toys in Space resources. Discussion will focus on hands-on activities showing basic physics in the special case of microgravity. The activities presented in this webinar address the Next Generation Science Standards PS2 and PS3. Online registration is required. 2018-2019 NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowships Audience: Higher Education Educators and Students Proposal Deadline: Feb. 1, 2018 Earth Science Contact:claire.i.macaulay@nasa.gov Space Science Contact: mnorris@nasa.gov The NASA Earth and Space Science Fellowship program is accepting proposals for the 2018-2019 academic year. Applications must be from accredited U.S. universities on behalf of individuals pursuing master’s or doctoral degrees in Earth and space sciences, or related disciplines. NASA will award training grants to the respective universities, with the advisor serving as principal investigator. The maximum NESSF award is $45,000 per year. NASA History Program Office Summer 2018 Internships Audience: Undergraduate and Graduate Students Application Deadline: Feb. 1, 2018 Contact: bill.barry@nasa.gov The NASA History Program Office is seeking undergraduate and graduate students for summer 2018 internships. The History Division maintains archival materials to answer research questions. It edits and publishes several books and monographs each year, and it maintains websites and social media featuring NASA history. Strong research, writing and editing skills are essential to the internship. Students of all majors are welcome to apply. 2018 Space Exploration Educators Conference Audience: K-12 Educators Event Date: Feb. 1-3, 2018 Contact: seec@spacecenter.org Register today for the Space Exploration Educators Conference (SEEC), taking place at Space Center Houston. SEEC is for all K-12 educators. The activities presented may be used for science, language arts, mathematics, history and more. Attend sessions hosted by scientists, engineers and astronauts leading the charge in exploration. Receive ready-to-implement classroom ideas and experience minds-on, hands-on fun. Attendees can earn up to 24 hours of continuing professional education credit. Free Program -- Cubes in SpaceTM Audience: Students Ages 11-18 and Educator Mentors Registration Deadline: Feb. 2, 2018 Contact: info@cubesinspace.com NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility and Langley Research Center, along with the Colorado Space Grant Consortium and idoodledu, inc., are offering a free STEAM education program for students ages 11-18. Cubes in Space™lets students design and compete to launch an experiment into space. Selected student-designed payload cubes will be launched via a sounding rocket from Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, in late June 2018 or from a high-altitude scientific balloon from NASA’s Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in New Mexico in late August 2018. Free Educator Workshop -- International Space Station: Beyond the Classroom Audience: Grades 4-8, In-Service, Pre-service, Home School and Informal STEM Educators Registration Deadline: Feb. 4, 2018 (maximum of 30 participants) Event Date: Feb. 8, 2018, 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. CST Contact: april.l.mcintosh@nasa.gov Join the Stennis Space Center Office of Education for an exploration of ways to integrate the International Space Station into your STEM, arts and social studies instruction. Participants also will learn about the Year of Education on Station -- two former classroom teachers, now astronauts, spending a combined year in space delivering STEM activities related to the space station. The workshop will be held at the Infinity Science Center in Pearlington, Mississippi. (Map). Call for Proposals -- NASA Fellowship Activity 2018 Audience: First-year Master’s or Doctoral Students Pre-proposal Teleconference Dates: Jan. 30, 2018, at 5 p.m. EST; Feb. 5, 2018, at 10 a.m. EST Proposal Deadline: March 20, 2018, by 5:59 p.m. EDT Contact: elizabeth.a.cartier@nasa.gov The NASA Office of Education Fellowship Activity funds candidates for graduate research at their respective campuses during the academic year under the guidance of their faculty adviser and a NASA researcher. To be eligible, candidates must be U.S. or naturalized citizens who hold a bachelor's degree in a STEM field earned before Aug. 31, 2018. Candidates must enroll in a master's or doctoral degree program no later than Sept. 1, 2018, and intend to pursue a research-based master’s or Ph.D. program in a NASA-relevant field. NOAA Planet Stewards Webinar: Flying Into the Storm! NOAA Hurricane Hunters: What They Do and How They Save Lives! Audience: All Formal and Informal Educators Event Date: Feb. 5, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. EST Contact: bruce.moravchik@noaa.gov During the Atlantic hurricane season, aircraft from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration collect crucial information to help understand and predict these massive storms. Join NOAA’s Planet Stewards Education Project for a free webinar with researcher Kelly Ryan-Poterjoy. Learn about flying into a hurricane and the importance of these missions in the context of scientific understanding and impact to the broader public. Space is limited so reserve your spot today!

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