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High School Opportunities
NASA opportunities are so extensive that I have removed them from this page and given them their own page.
- The Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Student Unmanned Air Systems (UAS) competition, http://65.210.16.57/studentcomp2010/default.html.
- This competition gives high school and undergraduate students an opportunity to create an unmanned aerial vehicle.
- The Conrad Foundation aerospace competitions, http://www.conradawards.org/main/aerospace_detail
- The Foundation was created to honor astronaut Pete Conrad. It holds competitions for high school students to devise solutions to current technological problems. Teams submit a technical description of their product, a business plan for marketing it, and a graphic representation of it. Aerospace Exploration is one of several competition areas.
- The Experimental Aircraft Association offers many opportunities through its Young Eagles program.
- Scholarships, internships, work study: http://www.youngeagles.org/programs/scholarships/
- "Flight Experience" program for kids ages 8 to 17: http://www.youngeagles.org/programs/youngeagles/. Participants schedule an educational flight with a local Young Eagles coordinator.
- EAA Air Academy summer camp for ages 12 to 18 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin: http://www.youngeagles.org/programs/airacademy/. Here they can learn aviation concepts from building and testing models, using flight simulators, and watching demonstrations. Complexity of the lessons increases with age.
- The Future of Flight Foundation exchange program: http://www.futureofflightfoundation.org/education/student-exchange-program.shtml
- This is an exchange program between the US and UK; US students get to visit the Royal Air Force Museum and interact with aviation experts.
- The Junior Engineering Technical Society (JETS) programs, competitions, information, and scholarships to help high schoolers cultivate an interest in engineering:
- TEAMS are one-day competitions that challenge high school students to collaborate, problem-solve, and apply engineering knowledge to problems: http://www.jets.org/teams/about/index.html
- The National Engineering Design Challenge (NEDC) has high school students create assistive technology for someone with a disability: http://www.jets.org/programs/nedc/about.html
- The UNITE program, funded by the U.S. Army Research Office, offers summer classes for students to see what a university-level engineering program may be like (Nine universities are listed as participants in this program.): http://www.jets.org/programs/unite.html
- The Museum of Flight "For Students" education page http://www.museumofflight.org/education/students.
- This page lists several opportunities for volunteering and other programs. The Aerospace Camp Experience Apprenticeship, Aviation Learning Center, Museum Apprenticeship Program, and Challenger Learning Center-Public Missions may be particularly interesting.
- The Team America Rocketry Challenge, http://www.rocketcontest.org/index.cfm
- This is a competition in rocket building and flying for students grades 7 to 12.
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