Sonoma State University students will build a small satellite, dubbed CubeSat, and launch it into space next year as part of NASA’s Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe.

Sonoma State University student Jesus Gonzalez watched Thursday morning as a powerful rocket took 10 minutes to lift his summer project off the ground in Cape Canaveral, Florida and into orbit about 250 miles above the Earth.

Written by Hannah Hellman NASA’s Neurodiversity Network (N3) was funded by NASA to make STEM education—particularly informal STEM education—more accessible to populations underrepresented in STEM education and workforces. N3 was inspired by Professor Lynn Cominsky’s work with an autistic student in her community, Alex, who started an informal project in the Sonoma State University lab […]

Written by Hannah Hellman NASA’s Swift and Fermi high-energy astrophysics research missions continue to help us discover the most energetic happenings in our Universe. Swift is celebrating its 20th anniversary in March and EdEon’s graphic artists, Aurore Simonnet, continues to inspire with her creative and artistic renditions of scientific discoveries from these missions.  Scientists using […]

The volunteer meeting will take place on Monday, December 18th at 5pm. We are also launching our office hours beginning that day, so we will be available 30 minutes before the start of the meeting to answer questions and chat about the project. This meeting in particular will feature a presentation given by EM2024 Science […]

Written by Hannah Hellman When Laura Peticolas submitted the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 (EM2024) grant for funding in 2022, we proposed to give away 100 3-D printed equatorial mounts to ensure that we would receive high quality photographs of the Sun’s corona. For our project’s purposes, “high quality” means that we would be able to reliably […]

In this article, Dr. James Riordan discusses several different citizen science projects in which citizen scientists can participate during the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse. Megamovie is featured there, as well as Soundscapes and SunSketcher.

Written by Hannah Hellman Photo credit: David Rogers / Solar Eclipse, Richmond / CC BY-SA 2.0 On June 19th, 1927, Virginia Woolf traveled more than 219 miles, from London to North Yorkshire, to see a total solar eclipse. In her essay, “The Sun and the Fish,” written in 1928 (one year after her experience), she refers […]

NASA’s Eclipse Megamovie project is back for the 2024 total solar eclipse—and is seeking volunteers! During the four minutes of this solar experience, the sun’s atmosphere, or corona, will become visible. It’s a rare time when we are able to take photographs of the corona from Earth on a large scale.

Five years after partnering with Google and inspiring citizen scientists to journey out to view the Great American total solar eclipse, the Eclipse Megamovie 2024 (EM2024) team has been funded by NASA to bring high-quality DSLR imagery to the forefront of solar coronal studies.

Sonoma State graduate Alex Vasquez, an autistic STEM student who was also a key inspiration for the N3 program, won a National Science Foundation graduate research fellowship – becoming only the second SSU physics graduate in the Department’s history to receive that prestigious award.

During the Summer of 2022, OCEANOS teamed up with the NASA Neurodiversity Network (N3) to provide support and mentorship to a student intern in Puerto Rico. N3 provides a pathway to NASA participation and STEM employment for neurodiverse learners, with a focus on those on the autism spectrum.

From August 8-12, 2022, NYSCI hosted a camp for five autistic middle-school students to introduce them to rocket science through a combination of hands-on activities and a longer culminating project.

Check out the video showcasing NASA’s Neurodiversity Network Year 1 accomplishments!

Google is teaming up with Stanford University in an effort to make its workforce more neurodiverse.

Through social media takeovers and question-and-answer sessions, podcast episodes, and more, NASA is offering a behind-the-scenes look at how interns participate in agency projects and the best routes to a NASA internship. Current interns, mentors, and internship coordinators from across the agency will share their experiences and advice for those interested in pursuing a career […]

SSU student Alex Vasquez and Prof. Lynn Cominsky will be presenting in the Stanford Neurodiversity K-12 Education and Advocacy Network seminar series on Thursday 4/8 from 4 – 5 pm PDT. We will be discussing our new NASA program to support neurodiverse learners (NASA’s Neurodiversity Network or N3) that was inspired by Alex’s educational journey […]

March 15th – 21st is Neurodiversity Celebration Week, a week to promote inclusive environments and to recognize the important contributions of neurodiverse people. EdEon is working with NASA to develop resources for STEM Education through NASA’s Neurodiversity Network, N3. You can learn more about this week and effort at www.neurodiversity-celebration-week.com, which also includes resources for […]

NASA’s Neurodiversity Network (N3) aims to broaden participation in NASA programs to include autistic and other learners with neurological differences. As part of NASA’s Science Activation Program, which is composed of teams across the nation to help learners of all ages and abilities do science, N3 will use specific learning modules to support autistic learners with […]

A student-built satellite about twice the size of a Rubik’s Cube has passed a series of tests to travel to space this December as part of a NASA-funded project involving three universities including Sonoma State. Built in partnership with Santa Clara University and Morehead State University in Kentucky, the “EdgeCube” satellite is scheduled to fly […]

A los 12 años, Jesús González llegó a Estados Unidos procedente de Guanajuato, México. Hoy, a sus 21 años, está a punto de convertirse en ingeniero electrónico, pero su empuje y dedicación lo han llevado mucho más lejos. Hace unos días, la NASA lanzó un cohete con un satélite que él y sus compañeros desarrollaron […]