Newton's Laws
By Carey Baxter I fell in love with physics in seventh grade when I learned about Newton's laws of motion. In three beautifully simple yet completely profound statements, Newton summed up so much...
View ArticleThe Curiosity Mars Rover
By William Lopez-Cordero I was in middle school when I first came to JPL. I saw all the wonderful spacecraft models like Voyager and Cassini. I was inspired by these achievements. But what inspired me...
View ArticleA JPL Tour
By Sophia Acevedo When I was 11, I came to JPL for the 2004 Open House, which was only a few months after the landing of Spirit and Opportunity. My mom took me to a talk led by a woman who was in...
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Carl Sagan's 'Cosmos'
By Nathaniel Guy When I graduated from college in 2005, I decided to go into the game industry and ended up at my dream job as a software engineer at Nintendo outside of Seattle. I loved it there -- I...
View ArticleThe Memory of My Father
By Deborah Hernandez I was inspired to pursue planetary science through my mother in conjunction with my late father. Losing my father at age 2, it was obviously difficult for a single mother raising...
View ArticleEngineered for Success
By Lorenia Jimenez Miramontes On my second "first day" as an intern at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, I felt a very different kind of nervousness from my first internship, last summer. I still had...
View ArticlePassion for Learning
By Alexis Drake Not many interns get the opportunity to study one of humanity's biggest questions: How did life emerge? But mechanical engineering major Jessica Nuñez is having the experience of a...
View ArticleScience Fair Project Spins Up NASA Hurricane Study
By Carol Rasmussen If you're reading this, there's a good chance that you or someone you know has been in a science fair. Chances are that your project did not lead directly to a collaboration with a...
View ArticlePath to Discovery
By Dallas Elleman I'm trying to figure out exactly which decision it was that started me on the unlikely path to where I am now -- enjoying this remarkable summer internship at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
View ArticleExploring New Terrains
By Alexis Drake Ciara Lynton is no stranger to the limelight. The 19-year-old electrical engineering major has been featured in a number of magazines for her academic and leadership accomplishments....
View ArticleGoing the Distance
By Isis Frausto-Vicencio I grew up moving around in the U.S. and Mexico, which made it hard to keep up with school. I mainly struggled with my language arts classes, but there were areas in which I...
View ArticleMini Rovers Hold Big Promise for Community College Students
By Kim Orr Four miniature rovers will go head-to-head this week at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, as community college students across the state - and one from Hawaii - get...
View ArticleArcadia High School Takes First Place at Science Bowl
By Elizabeth Landau Arcadia High School triumphed at the National Science Bowl regional competition at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. The event was held Jan. 31. The team,...
View ArticleArcadia High School Takes First Place at Surf Bowl
By Elizabeth Landau Arcadia High School took first place at the Ocean Sciences Bowl regional competition at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, on Feb. 28. The team consisted of...
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Take the 2015 Pi Day Challenge!
By Kim Orr UPDATE - March 16, 2015: The pi challenge answer key is now available for download.In honor of the "Pi Day of the Century" (3/14/15), the Education Office at NASA's Jet Propulsion...
View ArticleLocal High Schools Win FIRST Robotics Cybernetically
By Elizabeth Landau Sixty-six teams from Southern California, Hawaii, Colombia and Chile competed in the Los Angeles regional FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics...
View ArticleStudents, Scientists Mind Meld at JPL Science Fair Showcase
By Kim Orr More than 50 students from schools across Los Angeles County took their science experiments and engineering designs on the road on Tuesday for the opportunity to display their work during a...
View ArticleJPL Role Models and Rovers Promote STEM for Girls
By Jane Platt On a recent school night, seven enthusiastic female engineers and scientists from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, rolled into Santa Clarita, armed with three...
View ArticlePluto Finally in Our Sights
By NASAJPL Edu After a 3-billion-mile journey and a decade of space flight, NASA's New Horizons mission became the first to explore the dwarf planet Pluto on Tuesday, passing within 7,800 miles...
View ArticleFirst Images Returned From Pluto Flyby
By NASAJPL Edu The first set of close-up images returned from NASA's New Horizons mission reveal surprises and new insights about Pluto and its moons. See the latest images on NASA's New Horizons...
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