Make this Summer Shine 

Find your flip-flops. Snag your sunglasses. Summer's coming — and Mizzen Summer Camp is just around the corner! 

Created for youth-serving professionals, summer camp leaders, out-of-school time practitioners, and champions for children, Mizzen Summer Camp '24 has so much in store for you!

🏕️ Energize student learning with exceptional digital content on youth voice, outdoor games, STEM, SEL, and health & wellness. 

🏕️ Save your spot for Mizzen Meets: Johnny Crowder, Founder & CEO of Cope Notes® and TEDx Speaker. Join Johnny and Mizzen Education's CEO, Carlos Santini for a conversation on mental health and self-care.

🏕️ Get instant access to summer-ready lesson plans and activity playlists curated by special guests.

Did we mention it's 100% free to the out-of-school time community? And camp is virtual, so you can participate from anywhere!

2024 Kibo Robot Programming Challenge – Call for U.S. Teams

Audience: U.S. high school and undergraduate student teams

Registration Deadline: May 13

Contact: jsc-kiborpc@mail.nasa.gov

The Kibo Robot Programming Challenge invites teams of students from around the world to create programs to move free-flying robots known as Astrobees on the International Space Station. The competition presents tasks/obstacles for students to solve using the space station’s Kibo module as a game space. Preliminary rounds will be held in multiple countries using ground-based simulations. The winning U.S. team could potentially travel to Tsukuba Space Center in Japan in November 2024 for the International Final Round.

Click here to review eligibility requirements and register for this opportunity.

Top 18 Famous Environmental Scientists You Should Know

To celebrate scientists and scientific advancements, we have collected a list of the most famous environmental scientists that will inspire us for the greater good.

Environmental science is a huge field. It can be pretty complicated, with lots of details and sometimes strange terminology. But don’t worry — we’re here to take you on a journey through the list of people whose efforts have helped save the environment.

The Nobel Prize was the first stop for our research team, where we gathered information that helped us create this piece. We also scoured several encyclopedias, libraries, and publications. Continue reading

ACTIVITIES

Build a Pizza Box Solar Oven

Have you ever cooked something outside, like for a BBQ or while camping? It can be a lot of fun to be outdoors and enjoy eating the fruits — or burgers — of your cooking labors. Did you know that you can directly use solar power to cook food? This can be done using a solar oven, which is a low-cost, ecologically-friendly technology that seems to have everything going for it. In this science activity, you will build your very own simple solar oven out of a pizza box to gather the… Read more

Simulate an Earthquake

The ground under our feet may feel solid, but an earthquake changes that pretty quickly. Use Jell-O to simulate the earth’s crust, then see if you can build an earthquake-proof structure.

Learn more: Earthquake Science at Teaching Science

SPACE + FLIGHT

DART SPACECRAFT SLAMS INTO ASTEROID (2022)

The mission is a test to see if NASA could knock an Earth-bound asteroid off its path, should we ever need to.



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