When Isaac Tenorio found out he had been accepted to NASA’s Educator Institute at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, he was excited about what he would learn, and the wealth of experiments and lesson plan ideas he could bring back with him to start his teaching career on the tiny island of Saipan […]
Farewell To A Pioneering Pollution Sensor
On Jan. 31, NASA ended the Tropospheric Emission Spectrometer’s (TES) almost 14-year career of discovery. Launched in 2004 on NASA’s Aura spacecraft, TES was the first instrument designed to monitor ozone in the lowest layers of the atmosphere directly from space. Its high-resolution observations led to new measurements of atmospheric gases that have altered our […]
JPL Invention Challenge: Students, Pros, Wiffle Balls
Catapults and leaf-blowers were among the many innovative devices built by students for the 2017 Invention Challenge, an annual engineering competition at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. Middle schools and high schools were represented from across the greater Los Angeles area. Three teams even required passports, with students coming from Tanzania and Ethiopia. This […]
NASA Virtual Tour Highlights Women in STEM
In celebration of International Women’s Day on Wednesday and Women’s History Month in March, NASA has unveiled an educational virtual tour that brings students into the exciting careers of seven women in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields at the agency. Building on NASA’s participation with the 20th Century Fox film “Hidden Figures,” NASA’s […]
Students Test Their Concepts In JPL Invention Challenge
Catapults, conveyor belts and vacuums were among the many innovative devices built by students for the 2016 Invention Challenge, an annual engineering competition hosted at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California. The event was designed to inspire students to pursue careers in engineering. It allows students to create their own devices and compete against each […]
Local High Schools Win Robotics Competition
Proving their robots have what it takes to storm a castle, an alliance of three high schools won the Los Angeles regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition on March 12. Sixty-six teams from Southern California, Hawaii, Nevada and Chile competed in the event on March 11 and 12 at […]
Troy High School Takes First Place at Regional Science Bowl
Sporting T-shirts depicting a DNA double helix spiraling into a bowl, a team of students from Troy High School in Fullerton, California, won the National Science Bowl regional competition at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The event was held Jan. 30. “The whole day we’ve been on edge, even when we’re not competing, […]
Crazy Engineering: RoboSimian Robot
RoboSimian, a four-limbed disaster response robot under development at JPL, is ready to compete in the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge on June 5-6, 2015. You go buddy! Read more: Using Soccer to Teach Robotics