The American Rocketry Challenge is the world’s largest student rocket contest. Our competition challenges middle and high school students to design, build, and launch model rockets, providing hands-on experience in solving engineering problems.
Test Program
A test submission post server migration.
Nevada Robotics at DRI
In 2018, as part of the Tesla Education Investment, Nevada Robotics was established to provide state-wide professional development for educators to bring more CS-STEM to the classroom. To date, Nevada Robotics has hosted over 70 hands-on trainings and provides on-going support to schools and teachers in all corners of Nevada. Nevada Robotics has successfully trained over 2,000 teachers reaching 200,000 students in grades PK-12. The mission is to support robotics, drones, engineering, & computer science in PK-12 education: focusing on Title 1, rural, and reservation schools. The vision is for all students across Nevada to think creatively and solve complex problems through hands-on robotics education.
The Coding School
Free virtual and accredited courses in emerging tech (quantum computing and artificial intelligence)
Scorpion STEAM Academy at NSC
Scorpion STEAM Academy’s (SSA) weeklong day camps provide an engaging introductory experience for students interested in exploring skills and careers. Experienced instructors will guide students through a range of topics within their selected course. Students will participate in daily course-based, hands-on learning activities designed to encourage their creativity and problem-solving skills. Additionally, expert speakers and educational field trips will take students behind the scenes of some of the most innovative and exciting companies within STEAM fields.
Scorpion STEAM Academy
Our weeklong day camps provide an engaging introductory experience for students interested in exploring skills and careers. Experienced instructors will guide students through a range of topics within their selected course. Students will participate in daily course-based, hands-on learning activities designed to encourage their creativity and problem-solving skills. Additionally, expert speakers and educational field trips will take students behind the scenes of some of the most innovative and exciting companies within STEAM fields.
Stardust Mystery Project
We have created a series of science stories, YouTube videos, games, and additional resources to teach late elementary and middle school students about:
· atoms (size, number, kinds, and arrangements)
· how atoms were created during the evolution of the Universe
· how atoms have been shared by plants and animals during the history of Planet Earth
· how the Coronavirus and mRNA vaccines interact with our bodies
These resources were created as part of our STARDUST MYSTERY PROJECT funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
United States Drone Soccer
Drone soccer is a thrilling indoor team sport played with radio controlled quadcopters in protective exoskeletons designed for collisions. Five player teams face off in a netted arena where they ram and block the opposing team to prevent them from scoring. But before pilots can compete they must first learn to build, program, fly, and repair high-performance drones, learning engineering skills towards exciting careers in aviation.
STEM Demonstrations
The Center for Energy Research team at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has created solar-based kits designed to teach students about engineering, solar energy, and science. Our team would like to provide your students with the opportunity to use these educational kits and learn about the different ways that solar energy can be used.
We have a simple Fan & Light Kit designed to power fans and lightbulbs with a photovoltaic panel, a student-assembled Off-Grid Kit designed to power a battery that in return can power anything with a plug or USB, a student-assembled Water Heater Kit designed to heat up water through solar thermal energy, and a solar cell audio kit to learn the concepts of making circuits, converting light waves to electric waves and sound waves. This kit will show the students how sound is created and magnified by converting electric energy to light energy and then to sound waves.
Tech Trekker at UNLV
Our primary mission is to increase student exposure to and engagement in modern science and engineering tools in order to encourage students into high-demand STEM fields. Teachers can request equipment and Tech Trekker staff to visit their school up to three times per year. A wide range of science and engineering equipment is available, and teachers can choose to use the standards-aligned lessons associated with the equipment or come up with their own ideas to integrate the equipment into their classroom lesson. Tech Trekker is a free program for K-12 schools in the Las Vegas Valley.