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ASTRO CAMP

NASA’s ASTRO CAMP® Community Partners Program collaborates to empower universities, schools, museums, libraries, and youth service organizations to provide NASA unique STEM engagement activities and experiences to youth, families and educators in their own communities. The ASTRO CAMP Community Partners Program strives to provide trained community facilitators for all students to have access to authentic NASA Science experiences, ASTRO CAMP methodology and current activities aligned to Next Generation Science Standards, engineering challenges, and NASA resources highly focused on reaching into under-served and under-represented communities. NASA’s ASTRO CAMP brings real-world opportunities for every student to join and contribute to NASA’s Science Missions, enhancing understandings through powerful science career connections, and inspiring life-long learners for NASA’s future science teams continuing on the journey to explore our universe.

NASA’s ASTRO CAMP Community Partners Program is goal focused on collaborating with all community partners to:

  • Inspire youth, families, and educators to explore the realms of Space and Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, STEM, increasing and sustaining youth and public engagement through authentic NASA STEM experiences.
  • Present nationally aligned math and science principles – based on NASA missions current and past – through fun, hands-on activities, teaching teams of youth to work together to complete analog missions using models of evidence-based approaches with NASA resources.
  • Integrate NASA’s unique resources and expertise through exposure with prepared educational materials, presentations, and connections to NASA scientists, astronauts, and engineers with immersion into the most current NASA missions focusing on Human Explorations in Space targeting the return to the Moon and onto Mars, and fostering the dreams to explore farther for the next generations.
  • Spark all students’ interest in learning the unique basics of NASA Earth and space science, technology applications, engineering, rocketry, robotics, and computer science, focusing program outreach to historically under-served and under-represented groups, thus tracking the increase and quality of STEM learning opportunities with exposure to NASA STEM career possibilities for their future while having fun.

More NASA Science Resources can be found at: https://science.nasa.gov/learners/science-activation-teams 

 

ASTRO CAMPS: Iowa 2023- 2024

Astro Camp Location & Date

Contact & Registration Information

Audubon County (k-3): June 14th, 2023
Mtaggs@iastate.edu
Black Hawk County (k-3): June 14th, 2023
https://www.extension.iastate.edu/
blackhawk/summer-programs
Calhoun County (6-8): Summer 2024
TBD
Calhoun County (4-8): July 26, 2023 (9:00 AM- 3:00 PM)
tfsaxton@iastate.edu
Clarke County (9-11): September 20, 2023
TBD
Clarke County (4-7): June 6, 2023
bolesk@iastate.edu
Crawford County (k-3): June 20th, 2023
Mtaggs@iastate.edu
Delaware County (k-5): Spring 2024
krausch@iastate.edu
Dubuque County (3-6): October 26th, 2023
adecker1@iastate.edu
Lee County (4-6): June 20th, 2023
sbugg@iastate.edu
Madison County (4-6): June 27th, 2023
Lindseyy@iastate.edu
Mitchell County (4-6): July 6th, 2023
https://v2.4honline.com
Polk County (k-1): June 12th- 16, 2023 (Science Center of Iowa)
kathleen.roberts@sciowa.org
Polk County (Middle School): June 23, 2023
meganmae@iastate.edu
Polk County (Middle School): July 6th, 2023
meganmae@iastate.edu
Polk County (9-12): Fall 2023
TBD
Shelby County (k-3): June 22nd, 2023
Mtaggs@iastate.edu
Woodbury (k-6): June, July, October
ccraigb@iastate.edu

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