2025 Summer-Fall Space Trek Academy for Florida college and university students – Application deadline June 27, 2025
The Atlantis Educational Services will be hosting two, Four-day academies called the Space Trek Academy at the Center for Space Education (CSE), Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex (KSCVC). The first Academy will be held from August 12-15, 2025, and the second one from August 19-22, 2025). The Academy is sponsored wholly by the NASA Florida Space Grant Consortium. This Academy is open to all undergraduate and graduate students enrolled in a university or college in Florida.
In this program, 14 college students will participate as one large team, with smaller technical units to successfully launch and retrieve a weather balloon, with a payload that travels up to 100,000 feet. Students should be majoring in a STEM field. However, we would like to include one student, in each academy, with a background in journalism or social media etc. The idea is that this student will write a story about the academy, including student experiences. The student will also be responsible for taking pictures and videos and interviewing the other students.
· There is no cost to the student, except for travel to the Kennedy Space Center Visitor
Complex.
· Students will be provided lodging for 3 nights (March 6, 7, and 8th for the 1st Academy, and
March 19, 20, and 21st for the second academy).
· There is no reimbursement for travel.
· Lunch and dinner will be provided to every participant. Participating students will also be
given the opportunity to visit the KSC Visitor Complex, one afternoon.
After the balloon launches on August 15 and 22nd, there will be an award ceremony where every participant will be provided a certificate of completion.
Please go to the following website for more information and the application form
https://floridaspacegrant.org/program/space-trek-academy/ |