Check out the following NASA opportunities for the education community. Full descriptions are listed below.

NASA's Know Your Earth Project
Audience: All Educators and Students

DLiNFocus: NASA Careers ‘What’s in Your Future?’ Special Event Series
Audience: 5-12 Educators and Students
Event Date: Multiple dates beginning on Dec. 1, 2010

2011 NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition
Audience: Higher Education Educators and Students
Registration Deadline: Feb. 28, 2011

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NASA's Know Your Earth Project

This summer marked the nationwide release of the new, multi-mission education and public outreach project named “Know Your Earth.” This project is a collaboration between 11 Earth-observing missions. It promotes understanding our planet and climate change through a fun, light-hearted and engaging three-minute video segment that has been released in almost 300 movie theaters nationwide as part of National CineMedia’s Lobby Entertainment Network. This video segment plays on screens in theater lobbies in more than 40 states, including major movie-going venues in Los Angeles, New York and Orlando.

The main purpose of the video segment is to reach a major audience, the movie-going public that might not seek out this scientific information on a regular basis. The video is designed to inspire all age groups and to further interest in learning about climate change.

Included with the Know Your Earth Segment is a 30-second video entitled “NASA Reveals a Most Unusual Planet,” which shows just how unusual our planet really is.

This video segment is also available for museums, science centers, planetariums, parks, nature centers, zoos, aquariums and more.

To learn more about the project and to view the videos online, visit http://www.nasa.gov/knowyourearth.

Inquiries about the Know Your Earth project should be directed to project lead Brian Campbell at Brian.A.Campbell@nasa.gov.

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DLiNFocus: NASA Careers ‘What’s in Your Future?’ Special Event Series

Various subject matter experts from different NASA centers will be in the Digital Learning Network studios for a series of webcasts focusing on careers. Selected classrooms will be able to interact live with the scientists face to face through the DLN cameras. Each event will be webcast to allow students from all over the world to watch the interviews. Any student can interact by sending questions via e-mail.

Experts will share their academic experiences from elementary through college and talk about what motivated them to pursue their careers. They will discuss where those career paths lead. Students and teachers will have an opportunity to learn about the wide variety of career choices at NASA -- astronauts aren't the only folks who work here! The schedule of events through December includes:

-- Dec. 1: Marshall Space Flight Center featuring Tristan Curry -- Aerospace Engineer.
-- Dec. 8: Dryden Flight Research Center featuring Kathleen Stanton -- Nurse.
-- Dec. 15: Glenn Research Center featuring Mike Foreman -- former astronaut and current Chief of External Programs at GRC.

Each hour-long webcast event begins at 2 p.m. ET.

Sign up today to become a part of this exciting opportunity to meet NASA employees live! For more information, visit the DLN website at http://dln.nasa.gov and click the Special Events button.

Inquiries about the DLiNFocus series should be directed to Caryn Long at Caryn.Long@nasa.gov.

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2011 NASA Lunabotics Mining Competition

NASA is challenging U.S. and international undergraduate and graduate student teams to design and build a remote-controlled or autonomous excavator that could be used on the moon. The excavator must be able to collect and deposit a minimum of 10 kilograms (22 pounds) of lunar simulant in 15 minutes.

Design teams must include one faculty advisor from a college or university and two or more undergraduate or graduate students. A group of universities may work in collaboration, and multidisciplinary teams are encouraged.

Selected teams will compete in the Lunabotics Mining Competition at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 23-28, 2011.

Teams must apply no later than Feb. 28, 2011. There will be a limited number of teams allowed to compete.

For more information about the competition and to apply online, visit http://www.nasa.gov/lunabotics.

Please e-mail any questions about this opportunity to Susan Sawyer at Susan.G.Sawyer@nasa.gov.

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Don't miss out on education-related opportunities available from NASA. For a full list of Current Opportunities, visit http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/current-opps-index.html.

Visit NASA Education on the Web:
For Educators: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/foreducators/index.html
For Students: http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/index.html
NASA Kids’ Club: http://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub