WASHINGTON - NASA's Exploration Systems Mission Directorate is inviting teams of undergraduate and graduate students throughout the country to participate in the fourth annual Systems Engineering Paper Competition. Participants in the competition will submit a paper on an Exploration Systems mission topic.

The deadline to register for the competition is April 16. Papers are due April 23. The winning teams will be announced in May. Awards include up to $3,500 in cash scholarships and VIP invitations to attend a future space shuttle or rocket launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The competition is designed to engage students in the science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, disciplines critical to NASA's missions.

For information about the competition and how to apply, visit: http://education.ksc.nasa.gov/esmdspacegrant/SystemsEngineering.htm

For information about NASA's education programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/education

Source: NASA

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On 2 March, Italian Chief of Defence General Vincenzo Camporini delivered an inaugural address at the NATO Defense College in Rome to kick off the 116th Senior Course. He was welcomed by LtGen Wolf-Dieter Loeser, Commandant of the College.

In his opening remarks, LtGen Loeser reminded course participants of the importance of deepening their knowledge to meet NATO's current challenges.

General Camporini's address highlighted the primary objective of NATO's new Strategic Concept: to tackle new global threats and, by strengthening Allied solidarity, ensure that NATO is better able to respond to new security challenges.

To achieve NATO's goals, the General said it is essential to develop stronger synergy with key governmental and non-governmental actors on the international stage. In addition, he called for more emphasis on enhancing the relationship between NATO and the European Union. General Camporini's speech was followed by a lively question and answer period.

The six-month Senior Course is the College's core business. It aims to prepare senior officers and civilian officials for high-level positions with the Alliance through in-depth study of the changing international security environment and new, multi-faceted threats and challenges.

More than 80 military personnel and civilians representing 29 NATO and Partner countries are attending the course.

Source: NATO News

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WASHINGTON - U.S. university faculty and students are invited to a weeklong workshop to learn how to build and launch a scientific experiment into space. NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia is hosting the RockOn! 2010 workshop June 19-24 in partnership with the Colorado and Virginia Space Grant Consortia. Registrations for the 2010 workshop are being accepted through March 22.

The hands-on workshop teaches participants to build experiments that fly on sounding rockets. During the week, participants will work together in teams of three to construct and integrate a sounding rocket payload from a kit in four days. On the fifth day of the workshop, June 24, their experiments will fly on a NASA Terrier-Orion sounding rocket expected to reach an altitude of 73 miles.

Each experiment will provide valuable scientific data, analyzed as part of the student led science and engineering research. The program engages faculty and students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills critical to NASA's future engineering, scientific, and technical missions.

Approximately 100 faculty and students participated each year in the 2008 and 2009 workshops. All experiments have been successful, completed on time, launched and recovered.

NASA initiated the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program in 1989. The Space Grant national network includes more than 850 affiliates from universities, colleges, industry, museums, science centers, and state and local agencies. The goal is to support and enhance science and engineering education, and research and public outreach efforts for NASA's aeronautics and space projects. These affiliates belong to one of 52 consortia in all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.

For more information about RockOn! and to register online, visit: http://spacegrant.colorado.edu/rockon

For more information about NASA education programs, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/education

The Sounding Rockets Program Office at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility will be providing the rocket and launch operations during the workshop. For more information about NASA's sounding rocket program, visit: http://sites.wff.nasa.gov/code810

Source: NASA

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