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Article link: National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program

History
The National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program was established in 1988 by the US Congress following the success of similar scholarship opportunities in the oceanic Sea Grant and agricultural Land Grant fields. The catch-all term, “Space Grant” refers back to these previous federal programs. In 1989, the program was given over to NASA, which now administers in the same way that Sea Grant is administered by NOAA. The first meeting of the National Council of Space Grant Directors took place from January 16, 1990 to January 19, 1990 at the John Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Columbia, Maryland . In 2011, an effort was made to begin collecting the history of the council

Current Membership
Council Executive Committee  '''

Executive Committee Members 

Nominating Committee 

Mission Directorate Group Chairs (terms expire June 2019) 

Human Exploration and Operations 

Programs
Building Leaders for Advancing Science and Technology (BLAST) BLAST is a three-day summer event that takes place at Virginia’s Old Dominion University. This free, STEM-centered event, is available to 8th and 9th graders with a 2.3 GPA or better BLAST’s purpose is to show the students the interesting aspects of STEM to those who are unsure whether they want to be involved STEM or not.

Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project The NEBP is a high-altitude, balloon launching program that gives a hands-on, career-making, experience to students from middle school to undergraduates. The three main goals of the Nationwide Eclipse Ballooning Project is Public engagement, workforce development, and lasting collaborations. Public engagement is achieved by sharing with the world, the videos they captured during the rare, 8/21/2017 total eclipse ''. Workforce development is achieved by their focus on the student’s learning experience by providing the student with cutting-edge, hands-on experience. Lasting collaborations are achieved through their connections with universities, federal agencies, and industrial partners.

eXploration Systems and Habitation (X- Hab) 2019 Academic Innovation Challenge The eXploration Systems and Habitation (X-Hab) challenge seeks better the academic and technological abilities of university students. It utilizes hands-on training in the implementation of space habitats for deep space missions. There is an Advanced Exploration Systems (AES) Division where university students can compete to win awards worth $15k-$50k for a functional design that the AES finds useful and, or, interesting.

John Mather Nobel Scholars Established in 2008, the John Mather Nobel Scholars is a scholarship program open to NASA-Goddard Space Flight. The program provides $3,000 so that a chosen participant can share their research paper with NASA professionals. To be a part of this program, a GPA of 3.5 or higher is necessary along with being a junior or higher.

NASA KSC Higher Education Support Services The NASA/Kennedy Space Center Higher Education Support Services supports college grade Higher Education competitions. Such competitions entail internships, senior design projects, and selective grants. National Space Grant Distinguished Service Award The National Space Grant Distinguished Service Award was created by Josh Simpson and is awarded to students who will have an impact in a STEM field related to NASA’s mission/goals.

Space Grant Support Services The goal of the Space Grant Support Services is to better the Space Grant network. The Space Grant Support Services supports the Space Grant network in many different ways from an economical view to a public view.

Space Systems Engineering Website The Space Systems Engineering Website is a free, six-week, online course that allows students to work and learn with NASA’s engineers. Course materials will always be accessible and students are able to use the learned resources in any way they please.

Space Systems Engineering Website The Space Systems Engineering Website is a free, six-week, online course that allows students to work and learn with NASA’s engineers. Course materials will always be accessible and students are able to use the learned resources in any way they please.

Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Program The Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Program is a one week, online, STEM summer program. The program focuses on NASA-related research provided by NASA’s STEM professionals.

Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program (CSIIP) The Virginia Commonwealth STEM Industry Internship Program or CSIIP, provides an online internship application system for STEM majors. This was done for the people to meet the increasing demand for citizens with STEM majors.

Virginia Earth System Science Scholars The Virginia Earth System Science Scholars is a STEM-centered program where participants participate with NASA’s professional researchers The Virginia Space Coast Scholars (VSCS) program is an online, week long, STEM-centered program that focuses on the study of NASA’s missions.

William A Hiscock Space Grant Scholarship Fund The William A Hiscock Space Grant Scholarship Fund was created “in memory of William Hiscock, the former director of the Montana Space Grant”. Due to his efforts, many NASA ballooning centered programs were created.

Peer Review, By Josh and Ben
(1) saying "oceanic or Sea Grants" and likewise for the other is doesn't read smoothly. It looks like your trying to associate the scholarship programs with what they relate to and you can do that in a separate sentence. Also, be specific, other "technological fields" doesn't tell the reader anything more than what you have previously mentioned. resolved

(2)* "January 16, 1990 to January 19, 1990" Add commas to dates. Solved

(3) The listing of names and other information in paragraph form is hard to read and doesn't communicate the information effectively. Try to separate them into an actual sectioned list or maybe a table. Resolved

(4) The sentence isn't quite neutral enough. Try something like "BLAST serves to show students different aspects of STEM fields by offering hands-on activities." Resolved

(5) what is this Resolved

(6) referring to someone as a junior typically is accompanied by the assumption they are an undergraduate, as freshman, sophmore, and so on refer to undergraduate college students. So you can simply state junior. Resolved

Sources seem good, as they all are reliable in their references to the subject. Maybe find a couple outside sources however, as the main source is the space grant website which while can be trusted to primarily inform upon itself, outside verification would be helpful.

 http://national.spacegrant.org/index.php?page=history 


 * 1) Website hosted by the company that puts on the “Space Grant”
 * 2) Entire website is self published
 * 3) The National Space Grant Foundation is the company who pays for the website hosting.
 * 4) The author should know everything there is to know about the topic given that it’s their own website.

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19960014626.pdf


 * 1) Government website hosted by NASA
 * 2) All of the content is regulated by NASA
 * 3) NASA is paying for this website.  Given NASA’s reputation, this should not introduce any form of bias.
 * 4) The article is written by NASA’s Office of Human Resources and Education.  Although the name of the author(s) is not made clear, given that it is from NASA’s website it can be reasonably trusted.

 http://eclipse.montana.edu 


 * 1) Website about the Eclipse Ballooning Project
 * 2) The administrative contact for the website is Jerry Sheehan, Chief Information Officer of Montana State University.
 * 3) Hosted by Montana State University.  Given the subject, MSU likely will not be introducing any bias.
 * 4) Although the author of the website is not clear, MSU’s CIO is well regarded in the industry.

 http://vsgc.odu.edu/VASTS/ 


 * 1) Website about Virginia Aerospace Science and Technology Scholars.
 * 2) The administrative contact is Sheila Brinck, Network Systems Engineer Sr for Old Dominion University.
 * 3) Website is paid for by Virginia’s Old Dominion University.  Given their reputation, the source likely does not include bias.
 * 4) I am unable to find anything about the author on this website.  With that in mind, the mostly talks about a scholarship and as such focuses on factual information.