{"id":59198,"date":"2020-05-20T14:54:41","date_gmt":"2020-05-20T18:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/?migration=converted-node-460949"},"modified":"2023-08-25T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-25T13:20:14","slug":"first-nations-launch","status":"publish","type":"stem-content","link":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/first-nations-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"First Nations Launch"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>The NASA First Nations Launch competition, an Artemis Student Challenge, offers Tribal Colleges, and Universities (TCUs), Native American-Serving Nontribal Institutions (NASNTI), and American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) chapter students, the opportunity to demonstrate engineering and design skills through direct application in high-powered rocketry. The competition guides teams of undergraduate students through the engineering design process to design, build and fly high-powered rockets. Teams also conduct outreach within their communities, serving as role models to inspire the next generation of explorers!<\/p>\r\n<p>The competition is facilitated by the Wisconsin Space Grant Consortium, managed by NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, and funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/learning-resources\/minority-university-research-education-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP)<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<h3><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/spacegrant.carthage.edu\/first-nations-launch\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">First Nations Launch Website<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><em><strong>For more ways to get involved in NASA\u2019s first step in the next era of exploration, visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/stem.nasa.gov\/artemis\/#challenge-first-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Artemis Student Challenges<\/a> website.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The competition offers Tribal college-level students the opportunity to demonstrate engineering and design skills through direct application in high-powered rocketry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":66624,"template":"","categories":[2849,3298],"stem-terms":[8043,8095,8047,8078,8102,8044,8053,8172,8049,8046],"news-tags":[],"internal-terms":[11405],"coauthors":[12657],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"WebPage","headline":"First Nations Launch","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/first-nations-launch\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/first-nations-launch\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/first-nations-launch.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/first-nations-launch.jpg"},"articleSection":"Learning Resources","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NASA STEM Team"}],"creator":["NASA STEM Team"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"NASA","logo":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/themes\/nasa\/assets\/images\/nasa-logo.svg"},"keywords":["Learning Resources","For Colleges & Universities","NASA STEM Projects","For Kids and Students"],"dateCreated":"2020-05-20T18:54:41Z","datePublished":"2020-05-20T18:54:41Z","dateModified":"2023-08-25T13:20:14Z"},"rendered":"<meta name=\"parsely-title\" content=\"First Nations Launch\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-link\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/stem-content\/first-nations-launch\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-type\" content=\"index\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-image-url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/first-nations-launch.jpg?w=150&h=150&crop=1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-pub-date\" content=\"2020-05-20T18:54:41Z\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-section\" content=\"Learning Resources\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-tags\" content=\"Learning Resources,For Colleges & Universities,NASA STEM Projects,For Kids and Students\" \/>\n<meta name=\"parsely-author\" content=\"NASA STEM Team\" \/>","tracker_url":"https:\/\/cdn.parsely.com\/keys\/nasa.gov\/p.js"},"read_time":1,"featured_image":{"id":66624,"file":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/first-nations-launch.jpg","title":"first-nations-launch","alt":"A group of First Nations Launch students holding rockets at a launch site","caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content\/59198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stem-content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content\/59198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486043,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-content\/59198\/revisions\/486043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59198"},{"taxonomy":"stem-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stem-terms?post=59198"},{"taxonomy":"news-tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-tags?post=59198"},{"taxonomy":"internal-terms","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal-terms?post=59198"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=59198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}