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Summer High School Apprenticeship Research Program
http://www.nasajobs.nasa.gov/stud_opps/employment/SHARP.htm
NASA's program for enrichment of high school students (SHARP). What it is and how to apply.
Texas Aerospace Scholars Program
http://aerospacescholars.jsc.nasa.gov/
Johnson Space Center's educational outreach program for Texas high school students to learn online and then apply for a one week internship at the center.
The CERES S'COOL Project
http://asd-www.larc.nasa.gov/SCOOL/SCOOL.html
The CERES S'COOL Project invites schools around the world to make ground truth measurements for a NASA Earth-observing satellite mission.
The Earth Science Educator
http://webserv.gsfc.nasa.gov/ESD/edu/
The educational portal site of the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center's Earth Sciences Directorate. It contains hundreds of teaching and learning resources available from within the Earth Sciences Directorate and provides teachers and students with quick access to a set of rich and scientifically-oriented educational resources on a wide range of Earth Science research activities.
The GLOBE Program
http://www.globe.gov/globe_flash.html
A worldwide hands-on, primary and secondary school-based education and science program. GLOBE is a cooperative effort of schools, led in the United States by a Federal interagency program supported by NASA, NSF, EPA and the U.S. State Department, in partnership with colleges and universities, state and local school systems, and non-government organizations.
The Inspire Project
http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/inspire/
A non-profit scientific, educational corporation whose objective is to bring the excitement of observing natural and manmade radio waves in the audio region to high school students. INSPIRE is an acronym for "Interactive NASA Space Physics Ionosphere Radio Experiments". Since 1990, The INSPIRE Project has been involved in the investigation of very low frequency (VLF) radio signals in the earth's magnetosphere.
The NASA Qwhiz - A Prime Online Game
http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/Qwhiz/
A real-time, multi-player K-12 web game for math and science teachers and students.
The Remote Sensing Tutorial
This is a very exhaustive on-line tutorial approach to learning about the role of space science and technology in monitoring the Earth's surface and atmosphere. It is sponsored by the Applied Information Science Branch at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and will serve as a primer for the new user as well as a teaching tool for the educational community.
The ROVer Ranch- K-12 Experiments in Robotic Software
http://prime.jsc.nasa.gov/ROV/index.html
NASA's place to learn about robotic engineering, the development of robots and use a 3-D VRML simulation to run a robot you build. Build, test and run Remote Operating Vehicles in simulated environments.
The RXTE Learning Center
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/xte/learning_center/
a forum for explaining the science the satellite RXTE does, as well as striving to introduce concepts of X-ray astronomy to the public and to provide teachers with data and lesson plans that can be used in the classroom. This NASA site also includes descriptions of discoveries RXTE has made. Ages: Upper High School to adult.