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NC Space Grant Opens Four Funding Opportunities
NC Space Grant is excited to offer one brand new funding opportunity, in addition to three of our annual opportunities.
The new MSI STEM Pathways Scholarship helps second, third and fourth-year students at NASA-recognized Minority Serving Institutions who are making their first forays into STEM fields of study.
The MSI STEM Bridge Scholarship helps students continue that momentum and dive deeper.
The Pre-Service Teacher Education Scholarship opens the door for education majors to NASA content and tools to use in the classroom.
Our annual Team Experience and Competition Grant program supports undergraduate and graduate teams as they compete in NASA and aerospace industry competitions.
Read more about all of our funding opportunities here.
What is NC Space Grant?
NC Space Grant is a consortium of academic institutions that promote, develop and support aeronautics and space-related science, engineering and technology education and training in North Carolina. We partner with NASA, industry, nonprofit organizations and state government agencies to conduct programs designed to equip the current and future aerospace workforce of North Carolina.
I’m Picking Up Bad Vibrations: Designing Tools for Safer Jet Engines
In this guest post, Graduate Research Fellow Richard Hollenbach III, a Ph.D. candidate in mechanical engineering at Duke University, shares his research on vibrations in airplane engines.
2021 NC Space Education Ambassadors Selected
NC Space Grant presents 13 new NC Space Education Ambassadors for 2021. NCSEA builds a statewide network of educators delivering NASA content.
Seeing the Earth for the Forests
Guest post: Ian McGregor is studying geospatial analytics at North Carolina State University. He was selected as an NC Space Grant 2020-21 Graduate Research Fellow. Soon after, he accepted an award from the NASA FINESST...