SEES in the News

The NASA STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) High School Summer Internship Program had the opportunity to select 4 students to conduct research in microgravity on a Zero-G G-Force One aircraft last year. Many applications were received for the coveted four research positions. Students would work remotely with their project teachers, scientist, and director of Wisconsin ...

2023 NASA SEES Intern, Zoe Zlatic, was featured on Fox2Now on February 21, 2024 to talk about the experiment she will be conducting on a Zero-G flight scheduled for March 8, 2024. Zoe, along with three other 2023 NASA SEES Interns, were selected among the 96 on-site interns from the high school summer internship program ...

NASA SEES Alumni, Zoe Koniaris, was one of 47 students selected for the 2024 Brooke Owens Fellowship. Zoe was part of the 2019 SEES Mars Exploration Team and is currently a Junior studying Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering at Princeton University. As a “Brookie” Fellow, she will intern with Ball Aerospace. The Brooke Owens Fellowship is a ...

Riya Tyagi, a 2023 NASA SEES intern on the Earth Systems Explorer team, was selected as a finalist in the 2024 Regeneron Science Talent Search. The finalists represent 36 schools across 19 states and are competing for more than $1.8, with a top prize of $250,000. Riya’s project title is: “Using Computer Vision To Disentangle Features ...

Four NASA SEES Alumni were announced as top 300 scholars in the Regeneron Science Talent Search 2024. The Regeneron Science Talent Search scholars were selected from 2,162 applications received from 712 high schools across 46 states, Guam, Puerto Rico and ten other countries. Scholars were chosen based on their exceptional research skills, commitment to academics, ...

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