The Ohio Space Grant Consortium (OSGC) provides funding to support research at the university level, innovative higher-education programs that explore science and mathematics education for K-12, and student research opportunities.

NASA Academy

What is the NASA Academy?
A national educational, training, and research resource for college undergraduate and graduate students, dedicated to promoting current and future opportunities for innovation and leadership in aerospace related careers.

NASA Academy represents an immersive and integrated multidisciplinary exposure and training, for students with various backgrounds and career aspirations of critical importance to the National aerospace program.

The academic curriculum balances opportunities for direct contact with advanced science and engineering R&D and an awareness of the complex managerial, political, financial, social, and human issues faced by the current and future aerospace programs.

Co-sponsorship of the Academy assures recruitment of meritorious students from previously under-represented areas of the country, into leadership positions for the aerospace programs of the future.

The Objectives of the Academy are to:

• Support and enhance the general objectives and mission of NASA.
• Make available to the selected students guided access to extensive resources at the participating NASA Research and Space Flight Centers and their infrastructure, science, technology, and organizational and managerial expertise.
• Provide a unique, intensive, and rigorous educational and training curriculum related to the organization of NASA, its in-house science and technology projects, its collaboration with other National centers, industry, and academia, and its extensive technology transfer programs.
• Facilitate access to, and dissemination of valuable information on career development paths, financial support, technical writing standards, intellectual property, etc.
• Create an environment that fosters creativity, personal initiative, and leadership qualities, together with group mentality, teamwork, and professional ethics.

For more information, go to http://academy.nasa.gov/.