Have you heard of the National STEM Challenge? This is your chance to unleash your creativity and innovative thinking! U.S. students in grades 6-12 this challenge is for you! Your mission? Craft a STEM project that tackles a real-world challenge. Choose from one of...
2020 State of NASA event at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL was a fabulous experience. It was interesting to see all the different areas that make up space exploration and reiterates there are so many roles that make everything possible. The astronaut...
Announced today, Perseverance is the name of the new robotic rover headed to Mars in 2020. Here’s the blurb from NASA: NASA chose seventh-grader from Virginia as winner of the agency’s “Name the Rover” essay contest. Alexander Mather’s...
It’s been a fabulous 2019 for the Starbird Association. Some of our 2019 highlights: We participated in SpaceFest at the Bell Museum to kick off the Year of Apollo. Our President, Mary Albright, was appointed a NASA Solar System Ambassador in January as well. We...
Happy Star Trek Day. On September 8, 1966 ~ 53 years ago ~ The USS Enterprise entered our world for the first time. “To Go Where No Man Has Gone Before…” What started as science fiction, has inspired space science in our world. Space science...
