SEES in the News

The STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) High School Summer Internship Program, which is a nationally competitive STEM program for high school students and is part of the NASA Science Activation (SciAct), was awarded NASA’s Group Achievement Award on November 16, 2023, at the NASA SciAct Annual Meeting in Virginia.  The NASA Group Achievement Award recognizes ...

Former SEES Intern, Caydence Palmer, who was part of the 2022 NASA SEES Air Quality Initiative GLOBE Mission Earth Team, was the first high school student featured on the cover of AISES Winds of Change magazine and highlighted in the AISES People: Leadership in the World of STEM and Beyond section talking about her NASA ...

  Twelve 2023 NASA SEES interns are in Houston, Texas for the #OSIRISREx VIP reveal event at NASA’s Johnson Space Center on Wednesday, October 11, 2023. The NASA SEES Summer High School Internship program was offered the opportunity to invite 12 NASA SEES students to join the Center for Space Research Education and Outreach’s Margaret Baguio and ...

Former SEES Intern, Neha Shukla, who was part of the 2022 NASA SEES Aerospace Engineering SO2 Satellite Team, was recently featured in Forbes article, “Inventors Don’t Receive The Respect They Deserve. That’s Changing” about the value of contemporary inventors tackling societal challenges with tech. Read the article at: https://www.forbes.com/sites/madeleinekey/2023/04/18/inventors-dont-receive-the-respect-they-deserve-thats-changing

Congratulations to former NASA SEES Intern, Rishi Iyer, on receiving an Environmental Excellence Award for Outstanding Education and Academic Achievement for developing an online carbon footprint tool! Rishi was part of the SEES Astronaut Photography team in 2022. Source: https://youtu.be/lduG4SDu3HM

Former SEES Intern, Shreya Ramachandran, who was part of the 2019 NASA SEES Weighing Water GRACE Team, was recently featured in People magazine’s Earth Day issue. Shreya founded The Grey Water Project to spread awareness about safely reusing water from sinks and showers so that everyone can be a “water hero”. Read the article at: https://people.com/human-interest/stanford-sophomore-simple-solution-water-scarcity-recycling-water-easy/

Former SEES Intern, Neha Shukla, who was part of the 2022 NASA SEES Aerospace Engineering SO2 Satellite Team, won a 10K grant from M&M’s for ‘Flipping the Status Quo’. Neha invented a wearable social-distancing device, called Six Feet Apart, that uses ultrasonic technology to detect the distance between people when they come within 6 feet of ...

University of Texas at Austin’s graduate student is recognized with the Aspirations in Computing (AiC) Educator Award on behalf of the National Center for Women and Information Technology. Corinne Vassallo, a PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin and researcher with the Center for Space Research received an honorable mention with the Aspirations in ...

This spring, the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics (ASE/EM) at The University of Texas at Austin established its Academy of Distinguished Alumni to honor graduates of the aerospace and engineering mechanics programs who have led distinguished careers in industry, government or academia, and to recognize their outstanding accomplishments. Twenty-four Cockrell School of Engineering ASE/EM alumni and ...

NASA, Texas Space Grant Consortium, and The University of Texas at Austin Center for Space Research Summer Intern Program is a nationally competitive STEM program for high school students. Application Deadline for the 2019 Program is March 1, 2019. For eligibility, project choices, and how to apply, please visit http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/sees-internship/ Hear what former interns had to say ...