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| About the Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium. |
The Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium was founded on September 1, 1989. The founding institutions were Utah State University of Agriculture and Applied Science, University of Utah, University of Denver, and ATK Launch Systems.
Other members who have joined the Consortium since are:
- Brigham Young University [1990]
- Idaho National Laboratory [1990]
- Clark Planetarium [1990]
- Southern Utah University [1991]
- Weber State University [1992]
- Hill Aerospace Museum [1996]
- Snow College [1996]
- North American Native Research & Education Foundation [1999]
- Space Dynamics Laboratory [1999]
- Utah College of Applied Technology [2001]
- Dixie State College [2001]
- Salt Lake Community College [2002]
- Utah Science Center [2002]
- Rocky Mountain NASA Fellows Association [2002]
- Westminster College [2005].
Unique features of our consortium are that from the outset, we included Affiliates in more than one State, hence the name selected, and we have always operated with Co-Directors due to the shared heavy need for donations of time and support.
The Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium has formulated its vision, mission, goals, and objectives to be consistent with those of NASA and its Office of Space Science Education/Public Outreach.
The Objectives of the Consortium as part of its Guidance Plan were adopted five years ago and are updated by the Consortium Board of Trustees as appropriate at each Annual Meeting. In summary form, these objectives are:
- Recruit, mentor, and fellowship outstanding students into space-related educational career paths.
- Develop and maintain a mutually-supportive working relationship with NASA Centers.
- Administer a Consortial Space Grant Program according to a Guidance Plan that reflects NASA strategic interests, as described in (1) the NASA Strategic Plan, (2) the OSS/EO Strategic Plan, and (3) the NASA Headquarters Space Grant Strategic Plan.
- Achieve diversity of participants in the Consortium.
- Provide timely and complete responses to requests from NASA Headquarters.
- Perform effective evaluation metrics about Space Grant funded activities.
- Participate in regularly scheduled meetings with Consortium Trustees, Advisory Council, and National and Regional Space Grant.
- Provide pre-college teachers with information and hands-on materials and experiments to enhance student enthusiasm about STEM learning.
- Provide space-related research design experiences for undergraduate students through projects which involve student participation and which are relevant to NASA Strategic Enterprises and Centers.
- Interface with the Land Grant, Earth Grant and EPSCoR programs and Cooperative Extension offices.
- Maintain ties with aerospace-related industry and commercial firms, state and local government units, and assist in the implementation and use of distance-learning systems.
Our objectives and activities include the National Space Grant Program Emphases of:
- Diversity
- Competitiveness
- NASA ties
- Industry relations and state government involvement.
- Management
- Fellowships
- Research
- Higher Education
- Precollege Education
- Public Service.
We can be reached at the following address:
Rocky Mountain NASA Space Grant Consortium
Utah State University
4140 Old Main Hill
Logan, UT 84322-4140
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