STEM Engagement Impacts
NASA provides an exciting array of STEM experiences and opportunities to immerse students in the agency’s missions and projects. Our vision is to build a future-ready aerospace workforce by strengthening students’ career-readiness, empowering students with hands-on, real-world experiences, and fostering solid collaboration with industry.
FY 2025 Investments by State
NASA's Office of STEM Engagement makes targeted investments across all 50 states, District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico and U.S. Virgin Islands.
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NASA STEM Engagement 2025 Impacts
Find out how student work experiences, internship opportunities, engagement activities, and products helped connect students to NASA's mission, work, and people – and how these impacts are preparing students to join tomorrow's skilled technical workforce.
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Performance and Evaluation Strategy
NASA STEM Engagement executes a comprehensive performance assessment and evaluation strategy, Annual Performance Plan and a Learning Agenda.
Learning Agenda
The NASA STEM Engagement Learning Agenda represents a systematic approach to identifying gaps in knowledge and conducting research to generate knowledge to fill these gaps.
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FY 2025 Participant numbers
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By the Numbers
The NASA Office of STEM Engagement (OSTEM) investments encompass four projects: the Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP), National Space Grant College and Fellowship Project (Space Grant), Established Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR) and the Next Generation STEM Project (Next Gen STEM). OSTEM collaborates with NASA mission directorates, including the Aeronautics Research Mission Directorate (ARMD), Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate (ESDMD), Science Mission Directorate (SMD), Space Operations Mission Directorate (SOMD), and Space Technology Mission Directorate (STMD); and NASA centers and facilities, to maximize the agency’s reach and impact.
In Fiscal Year 2025 (October 1, 2024– September 30, 2025), 704K+ student, 58K+ educator and 2.5M+ other participants engaged in NASA STEM engagement activities and educational content.
Participants
| STEM Engagement Metric (FY 2025) | EPSCoR | NGS | MUREP | Space Grant | Other STEM Engagements | Totals |
| Participant Data | ||||||
| Total # of Student Participants | 1,032 | 49,503 | 18,543 | 528,085 | 107,685 | 704,848 |
| Total # of Educator Participants | 761 | 9,343 | 2,024 | 39,510 | 6,891 | 58,529 |
| Total # of Other Participants | 2 | 628,588 | 2,361 | 1,073,317 | 64,480 | 1,768,748 |
Participant Data Definitions:
- Student Participants represent all students reached through STEM Engagement investments
- Educator Participants represents educator participants reached through STEM Engagement investments
- Other Participants represents general public participants (e.g., uncategorized students of all ages, parents, educators, and adult participants, and others) reached through STEM engagement investments.
FY 2025 Performance Data
STEM Engagement Reach Map
Significant Awards
- In Fiscal Year 2025, Space Grant, MUREP, Next Gen STEM, and EPSCoR grantee and awardee institutions reported 4,626 peer-reviewed publications, technical papers and presentations representing opportunities for learners to contribute to NASA’s aeronautics, space and science missions and work.
- Notably, 54 percent of the peer-reviewed and other technical publications were authored or coauthored by students.
- NASA provided 8,443 internships, fellowships, research opportunities, educator professional development, challenges and other college/pre-college STEM engagement opportunities to 7,781 student and educator participants representing K-12 institutions and higher education institutions including 2-year, 4-year institutions and all Minority Serving Institution (MSI) classifications. These significant awards provided a total of over $47.7M in direct financial support to participants.
Featured Partnerships
Through public-private partnerships, NASA OSTEM enters into unfunded collaborations with leaders in the commercial, technology, non-profit, and media sectors to inspire and prepare young people to enter STEM careers. In FY25, NASA OSTEM forged strategic partnerships with industry to broaden impact to more students, expanding OSTEM’s digital reach by over 15 million engagements in FY 2025.
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NASA AND DISCOVERY EDUCATION
In the last 18 months users of the Discovery Education platform interacted with NASA and NASA themed products over 2 million times.
NASA AND CRAYOLA EDUCATION
Over the last 2 years, 9.5 million students have participated in collaborative content around the International Space Station and James Webb Space Telescope.
NASA AND GOOGLE
NASA and Google collaborated to release online instructional materials to introduce students to STEM concepts and careers and to help students learn about the science and technology behind exoplanet discovery.
NASA AND MINECRAFT
Over the past two years, 4 million players have engaged with two games for students tied to the Artemis Missions and James Webb Space Telescope.
