Across the state, the Arizona Space Grant Consortium funds over 100 students per year in our internship, fellowship, and scholarship programs. Many of these students, and especially our Space Grant Graduate Fellows, work hard to create STEM outreach components to their research projects. Below are unique Space Grant-created outreach and curriculum created by some of our Arizona Space Grant students. This content may be applicable for K-12, college, and general public audiences, and spans a variety of STEM subjects. Please feel free to review these resources below!
Name | Audience | Overview | Website |
| Breshears, Lane: U of A Fellow 2020-21 | Middle & High School | DIY Biosensors teaches students how to use a smartphone as a microscope to learn about antibody-antigen binding, improve their understanding of the tests being performed to detect viruses like Covid-19, and explore the exciting process of DIY science using fluorescence microscopy and 3D printing. | Website DIY Biosensors |
| Breshears, Lane: U of A Fellow 2020-21 | Middle & High School | YouTube DIY Biosensors | |
| Fairbanks, Dawson: U of A Fellow 2019-20 | All ages | "From Science to Conservation: Career Paths in Environmental Sustainability". These videos are a method of storytelling to showcase the multiple avenues by which individuals can positively influence and apply STEM knowledge to study, conserve, and restore natural ecosystems. | Video 1: Tiny but Mighty Video 2: Becoming an Environmental Steward |
| John, Jaclyn: U of A Fellow 2022-23 | Grades 4-7 | Did you know that the physics of light is what helped humanity create all kinds of mind-blowing technologies, like telescopes, cameras, and virtual reality? And the best part? The world of optics is growing faster than a high-speed laser beam! That’s where we come in! In this class, we’ll teach you all about the amazing engineering that must be done to light the way to the future! In this class, we'll build 3D glasses, build pinhole cameras that show the world upside down, create florescent glowing paintings and art, and even attempt to hide from an IR camera. | Curriculum and Videos Shared GoogleDrive |
| Katterman, Matthew: U of A Fellow 2020-21 | Middle School Grades 6-8 | This series of PowerPoint lesson plans and worksheets teach middle school students about the Environmental Control and Life Support Systems that NASA utilizes in outer space and on space stations. | GitHub Repository |
| Kirshner, Mitchell: U of A Fellow 2022-23 | All ages | A series of short video podcasts hosted on YouTube with the intent to help everyone understand advanced space topics and spread awareness of space science and engineering. | Youtube Channel Space Posthaste |
| Kisley, Marina: U of A Fellow 2021 | All ages | This podcast series explores your biggest questions about the universe. How did life begin? How did the stars get their names? Listen and enjoy! | Spotify "Your Universe" Podcast |
| Landon, Parker: ERAU Intern 2019-22 | Middle & High School | This video introduces interferometry and optical safety. It discusses the concepts of gravitational waves and how scientists use lasers to identify them. | YouTube Video |
| Lepley, Kai: U of A Fellow 2021-22 | All ages | Agrivoltaics, also known as "dual-use" or "co-located" renewable energy, is the practice of combining agriculture with solar power generation. This innovative approach can provide benefits for both farmers and solar energy producers. Learn more about agrivoltaics initiatives from around the world, and hear stories from those that use it through this interactive website and story map. | Agrivoltaics Atlas Website |
| Rogozenski, Paul: U of A Fellow 2022 | High School & Undergraduate | Cosmology is the study of the development, origin, structure, and fate of the universe. This Program will provide introductions to many of the topics necessary to being successful in the field of Cosmology but can be applied to most STEM fields, including important topics in physics, Python coding, and statistical inference. This course is not robust nor complete, but rather provides a high-level understanding of the relevant processes in the history of the universe and their connections without significant math overhead. | Cosmology Quick-Start Program |
| Zamora-Reyes, Diana: U of A Fellow 2019 | All ages | View an assortment of ArcGIS Story Maps (SMs), which are online interactive narratives that describe the development, attributes and consequences of flooding throughout Arizona. These SMs include graphics, images, and videos in both English and Spanish. | Story Maps of Historical Flooding in Arizona |
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