National Space Club and Foundation Keynote Scholarship
A prestigious national scholarship open to U.S. citizens from high school seniors through graduate students pursuing STEM fields, awarding $10,000 for education and inviting the recipient to deliver a keynote address at the National Space Club and Foundation's Goddard Memorial Dinner, a premier aerospace-industry networking event.
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Build A CubeSat Challenge (MIT Beaver Works)
A national MIT Beaver Works Summer Institute challenge in which teams of up to five U.S. high school students, guided by a coach, complete an online course and build hardware kits into satellite subsystems (power, optical payload, data analysis, wireless transmission) for a simulated Lunar Terrain Survey CubeSat mission, presenting via video to a panel in a live online final event.
GAMA Aviation Design Challenge
A national high school competition run by the General Aviation Manufacturers Association in which teams of at least three students use free X-Plane-powered flight simulation curricula to learn flight science, then modify an aircraft design and compete in a virtual fly-off scored on aerodynamic and performance metrics.
NASA Dream With Us: High School Engineering Challenge
A national FAA/NASA aviation engineering design challenge in which teams of 3-7 students in grades 9-12, guided by an adult coach, design an aircraft concept using NASA's Vehicle Sketch Pad software and an engineering design notebook to solve a real-world aviation problem, culminating in live judged presentations.
Astronomical League National Young Astronomer Award (NYAA)
A national award from the Astronomical League that recognizes outstanding original astronomical research by US high-school-age students, judged by a panel of professional astronomers; the first-place winner receives a telescope and an expense-paid trip to the League's national convention, ALCon.
NASA Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) Internships
Paid internships across NASA centers (incl. JPL, Ames in CA) on engineering/aerospace projects.
NASA Student Launch - High School/Middle School Division
A non-competitive, nine-month NASA engineering design challenge in which qualifying teams (who placed top 25 at the American Rocketry Challenge or top 5 at Rockets For Schools and completed an Advanced Rocketry Workshop) design, build, test, and launch high-powered rockets carrying scientific or engineering payloads, following NASA's design-review lifecycle through a final launch event at Marshall Space Flight Center.