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The Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium ~Connecting the Citizens of the Commonwealth to NASA Opportunities~ |
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About PSGC ||
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The Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium (PSGC) is part of a national network of Space Grant programs in every state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. It is funded and managed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The PSGC is composed of 15 affiliates and members throughout Pennsylvania. The Lead Institution is The Pennsylvania State University. |
Space Grant News!2008 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
Recent Swift Observation!
Applications Avalible For:Pennsylvania Space Grant Fellowships Congratulations to the following Fellowship awardees for the 2007-08 and 08-09 academic years:
The Sylvia Stein Memorial Space Grant Scholarship Congratulations to the following Scholarship awardees for 2007-08:
The Swift Mission: helping to solve the mystery of Gamma Ray Bursts!
NASA's Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer is designed to detect gamma-ray bursts--intensely brilliant flashes of gamma radiation that briefly outshine every other object in the sky--at gamma ray, X-ray, and ultraviolet wavelengths. Read about Penn State's contributions to Swift news here. Pennsylvania's NASA Explorer Schools!Congratulations to Lori Cirruci and her colleagues from Broughal Middle School
(Bethlehem, PA), for their successful proposal to the NES program in 2006! Broughal is the 4th school in Pennsylvania to be selected
as a NASA Explorer School. Our other NES schools are:
Harrison Morton Middle School (Allentown, PA), selected in 2005.
With the support of Lehigh University, students at Harrison Morton are getting hands-on experience in robotic
exploration of Mars in the school's very own
Mars Yard.
Anna Howard Shaw Middle School (Philadelphia, PA), selected in 2004. Shaw MS represented the United States, NASA,
the State of Pennsylvania, the City of Philadelphia, and US FIRST Lego League at the
FIRST JAPAN Robotics No Limits Challenge Tournament in Aichi Japan in August 2005. Congratulations! Greencastle-Antrim School District (Greencastle, PA), selected in 2004.
The Greencastle team participated in the 2005
NES Challenge
at the NASA Explorer Schools Symposium where they met astronaut Megan McArthur.
Additional details and information about the NASA Explorer Schools program can be found at: About NES. | ||||||||||
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