NASA Texas Aerospace Scholars (TAS)

NASA SEES High School Summer Intern (UT Austin)

NASA / UT Austin Center for Space Research

Nationally competitive NASA research internship where high school students analyze real Earth and space mission data with NASA and university mentors, then present at the Virtual SEES Science Symposiu. Nationally competitive NASA research internship where high school students analyze real Earth and space mission data with NASA and university mentors, then present at the Virtual SEES Science Symposium.

NASA TechRise Student Challenge

NASA / Future Engineers

Free NASA challenge where student teams design, build and fly experiments on a suborbital spacecraft or high-altitude balloon, receiving $1,500 and technical support to bring their ideas to life.

NASA GLOBE Program

NASA / NSF / NOAA

International hands-on environmental science program where students collect real Earth observation data (atmosphere, hydrosphere, land cover) and can submit research to the Virtual Science Symposium.

NASA International Space Apps Challenge

NASA

The world's largest annual hackathon: teams solve real-world challenges using NASA open data, with topics spanning space, Earth science and climate.

NASA HUNCH (High Schools United with NASA to Create Hardware)

NASA

Classroom-based NASA workforce development program where high school students design and fabricate real hardware, software and food products that fly to the International Space Station.

NASA Exoplanet Watch

NASA

NASA citizen science project where participants help track and confirm transiting exoplanets, learning to process real telescope data alongside professional astronomers.