Students submit entries that sharpen their inquiry, problem solving and creative writing skills. This program provides connections to national standards, state frameworks and local school curriculum. NSIP is more than a competition, providing an inquiry-based approach to science, math, technology and geography education. New this year is the Flight Opportunity competition for high school students. Winners' experiments will be flown on a NASA Space Shuttle or sounding rocket.
All students submitting qualified entries receive a certificate of participation.
The Universities Space Research Association, in collaboration with the Goddard Space Flight Center's Earth Sciences Directorate, is offering a limited number of graduate student research opportunities for the Summer of 2000. The Program is scheduled for June 5 to August 11, 2000. Each student will be teamed with a NASA scientist mentor with parallel scientific interests to jointly develop and carry out an intensive research project at GSFC over the ten-week period. The Laboratory for Atmospheres, The Laboratory for Hydrospheric Processes, and The Laboratory for Terrestrial Physics. Students will also participate in an introductory lecture series, informal weekly lunch discussions with GSFC researchers, and have the opportunity to tour key NASA facilities and meet with NASA and industry scientific leaders.