{"id":113,"date":"2026-05-06T20:23:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T20:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/?page_id=113"},"modified":"2026-05-07T21:33:35","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T21:33:35","slug":"stem-initiatives","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/sustainability\/stem-initiatives\/","title":{"rendered":"STEM Initiatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/skoobuzz.com\/storage\/images\/news\/news\/news_240924155112.jpg\" alt=\"NASA and Education Department Partner to Expand STEM Opportunities  Nationwide\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Educational Launch of Nanosatellites\u00a0(ELaNa). Since 2011, the ELaNa program has provided opportunities for NASA to work with university teams to test emerging technologies and commercial-off-the-shelf solutions by providing launch opportunities for developed\u00a0CubeSats\u00a0using NASA procured launch opportunities.[269]\u00a0By example, two NASA-sponsored\u00a0CubeSats\u00a0launched in June 2022 on a\u00a0Virgin Orbit\u00a0LauncherOne\u00a0vehicle as the ELaNa 39 mission.[270]<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"NASA and STEM\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QV-CuMmBB24?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Cubes in Space<\/em>. NASA started an annual competition in 2014 named &#8220;Cubes in Space&#8221;.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA#cite_note-272\">[271]<\/a><\/sup>\u00a0It is jointly organized by NASA and the global education company\u00a0<em>I Doodle Learning<\/em>, with the objective of teaching school students aged 11\u201318 to design and build scientific experiments to be launched into space on a NASA rocket or balloon. On June 21, 2017, the world&#8217;s smallest satellite, KalamSAT, was launched.<sup><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/NASA#cite_note-273\">[272]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educational Launch of Nanosatellites\u00a0(ELaNa). Since 2011, the ELaNa program has provided opportunities for NASA to work with university teams to test emerging technologies and commercial-off-the-shelf solutions by providing launch opportunities for developed\u00a0CubeSats\u00a0using NASA procured launch opportunities.[269]\u00a0By example, two NASA-sponsored\u00a0CubeSats\u00a0launched in June 2022 on a\u00a0Virgin Orbit\u00a0LauncherOne\u00a0vehicle as the ELaNa 39 mission.[270] Cubes in Space. NASA started &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/sustainability\/stem-initiatives\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">STEM Initiatives<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":107,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-113","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150,"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/113\/revisions\/150"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infotec06.ghsvids.org\/arod\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}