Paid NASA Opportunity for University of Maryland STEM Students - Exciting Opportunity!

My name is Eric Day and I am the Program Manager for the District of Columbia NASA Space Grant Consortium, which is located at American University.  We were recently selected in a highly competitive process for NASA funding for our proposed program supporting undergrad STEM majors who are interested in teaching K-12 STEM.

We will select (through a competitive process) approximately 30 Sophomores and Juniors who are majoring in STEM at an accredited DC area college or university. The goal of this program is to build the confidence and knowledge base of those students to teach a STEM discipline to K-12 students after graduation.  The program has six very exciting components, which the students will participate in over the course of approximately 16 months.  In addition, each student will receive a stipend of more than $5,000.
Component 1. Spring 2014 - Students will break into teams and each team will design a scientific project.  One of those projects will be selected though a competitive process to be launched to the International Space Station.  Students will learn how to replicate this activity in their own classrooms one day.
Component 2. May 19-23, 2014 - Students will attend a customized week-long STEM K-12 teacher training workshop at the NASTAR Aerospace Corporation in Pennsylvania.  Travel funds  will be provided.  Students will also have the opportunity to train on a centrifuge, the same used by NASA astronauts.
Component 3.  May 26-30, 2014 - Students will participate in a customized week-long K-12 teacher training astronomy workshop at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, MD.
Component 4.  Fall 2014 - Spring 2015 - Students will  train and work for the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum as part of their Explainers Program, assisting museum visitors and childrens’ groups with exhibits.
Component 5.  Spring 2015 - Students will make a presentation to students and/or other teachers at a DC Public Schools Workshop.
Component 6.  Spring 2015 - Students will design posters to convey what they have learned about what makes an effective K-12 STEM educator, and present them at a luncheon celebrating their participation in the program.
  The website and application are located at: http://DCSpaceGrant.org/STEM.