Category: Features
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02-16-2018 | Spratly Students Producing NASA eClips Featured in Daily Press
Spratly Students Producing NASA eClips Featured in Daily Press – As part of a project-based learning design challenge, students in Lisa Ann Wilson’s Digital Studio class at Spratly Gifted Center in Hampton, Va., are producing a NASA video to debunk common science misconceptions. Working with educators from the National Institute of Aerospace’s (NIA) Center for…
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02-05-2018 | NASA iTech Selects Top Three Teams in Innovation Competition
NASA iTech has selected the top three teams out of a group of 10 finalists for their innovative technology projects and ideas that may improve future deep space exploration and life on Earth. NASA iTech is a collaborative effort to find and foster innovative solutions that aim to solve problems on Earth, and also advance technologies…
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Hampton Roads Small Business Accelerators Receive $50,000
Hampton Roads Small Business Accelerators Receive $50,000 – See the Inside Business Article: – See the Daily Press Article: http://www.dailypress.com/business/dp-tidewaterbiz-sba-grants-20171107-story.html
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NASA Selects Top Three iTech Innovators for Continued Collaboration
The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) welcomed the NASA Office of the Chief Technologist and the top 10 finalists of the second cycle of NASA iTech at the iTech Forum July 10 –14th, 2017.  During the forum, finalists presented their innovative solutions to NASA’s potential challenges for deep space exploration and challenges here on Earth. Innovators…
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National Institute of Aerospace Named in NonProfit Times 2017 Best Nonprofits to Work For
National Institute of Aerospace Named in NonProfit Times 2017 Best Nonprofits to Work For The National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) was recently named one of NonProfit Times (NPT) Top 50 Best Nonprofits to Work For in the United States. The top 50 nonprofits are chosen from data compiled from thorough organizational assessments. Each participating nonprofit completes a…
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University Students Mine for Water at NASA’s Mars Ice Challenge
For humans to survive on other worlds, they’ll have to harness the resources – like water – that exist there. A recent competition held at NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, aimed to find ways of doing just that. Dozens of students from seven U.S. universities traveled to NASA’s Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia,…
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NASA 2017 OPSPARC Winners Put a New Spin on Webb Telescope Technology
Team Fiber Rockedit, the high school 2017 InWorld OPSPARC winners from the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, focused on using NASA’s the James Webb Space Telescope Microshutter Array for fiber optic communications. Erik Fong, Atherton Mook, Hays Mook and Nick Perlaky, who are all sophomores from the Baylor School, were assisted by their college engineering…
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National Institue of Aerospace and Hampton City Schools Partner Through NASA Science Grant
Courtesy: Hampton City Schools Office of Public Relations and Marketing ________________________________________________________________________ National Institute of Aerospace and Hampton City Schools Partner Through NASA Science Grant Hampton, Va (April 17, 2017) — The National Institute of Aerospace, NIA, was one of 27 organizations nationwide to receive funding through a K-12 cooperative agreement award from NASA’s Science Mission Directorate.…
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NIA Liaison Professor and Langley Distinguished Professor Named Royal Aeronautical Society Fellows
Prof. Colin Britcher, Liaison Professor at Old Dominion University and Director of Graduate Programs at the National Institute of Aerospace, and Prof. Dimitri Mavris, NIA’s Langley Distinguished Professor at Georgia Tech, were recently elected as Fellows of the prestigious Royal Aeronautical Society. Dr. Britcher, who serves as the Associate Chair of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering…