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There is a new white paper for the eclipse ballooning event: Eclipse Ballooning White Paper Summer 2015   Powerpoint for 1/11/17 ballooning meeting   Cutdown Assembly Using the Cutdown Iridium Satellite Tracker Making a new SIM card with RFD  RFD setup and usage (part 1, part 2) Using the Pi as a computer Video payload […]

The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium participated in the 2015 Young Scientists and Engineers Academy on Wednesday July 29th.  26 middle school students participated in the morning session, while 34 elementary students attended the afternoon session.  The students toured the space suit lab, flew the spacecraft simulators, and saw the electric rover.  Students then had […]

The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium will develop a plan to interact with the International Space Station in 2016.  Read more information here.

Educator in Fargo, ND, Tonya Greywind, was selected as one of three North Dakota teachers to receive Space Grant funding to attend the Space Academy for Educators at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL.  See the article published in the Fargo Forum below.  Peter Sykora of Ellendale, ND also attended, and Ellen […]

The NDSGC conducted a pre-service teacher workshop for 15 Valley City State University students on Wednesday June 24th.  They learned about NASA resources and opportunities available to them as educators and completed the SciGirls “Deep Sea Diver” activity.  They created some pretty creative neutrally buoyant objects!   Educator Resources and Deep Sea Diver PowerPoint Deep […]

The North Dakota Space Grant Consortium (NDSGC,) a statewide service based at the University of North Dakota’s John D. Odegard School of Aerospace Sciences’ Department of Space Studies, was selected, for the first time, as one of the 14 candidates to move forward in the next stage of the Amateur Radio on the International Space […]

The NDSGC has been selected to advance to the next stage of ARISS (Amateur Radio on the International Space Station) selection, to make contact with the ISS sometime during the beginning of 2016.  If selected, particpation will include local and statewide STEM initiatives throughout the 2015-2016 school year, including a full day of STEM activities […]

Thank you to all educators who attended the NDSGC session at the National Science Teachers Association 2015 STEM Forum & Expo in Minneapolis, MN!  Electronic versions of the handouts are available for download below.  These are also available for download on the NSTA site here:   Strange New Planet PowerPoint Educator Resources Handout Strange New […]

The NDSGC presented a session at the ND STEM Network Summit in April 2015.  Thank you to the educators who participated! The presentation and handouts included in the workshop can be found below. Educator Resources Handout Moons of Jupiter and NASA Resources PPT Moons of Jupiter Instructions Moons of Jupiter Observation Recording Sheet MoJ Data […]

Thirty educators attended the Space Grant sessions at the 2015 ND Math and Science Teachers’ Meeting: Full STEAM Ahead. Resources for the sessions presented on 3/20/2015 are available for download below. This same activity was conducted with 20 education students from the University of North Dakota on 3/25/15.  Thanks to both groups for some fun […]