Building the future Aerospace Workforce in Delaware with STEM Student Support Opportunities
Graduate Student Fellowships
Delaware Space Grant offers graduate student opportunities for fellowships annually. Fellowships provide stipends of $36,000 to highly qualified graduate students working toward NASA research goals at a DESGC member institution. Applications open in the Fall each year.
Undergraduate Internships
Paid undergraduate student opportunities in NASA goal oriented positions, Applications open in late Fall
At our Member Institutions
Students will work on a research project with a faculty mentor at the institution they attend or at any DESGC affiliate institution. Check back this fall for more information!
At our Industry Partners
ILC Astrospace LP, Cislune Inc, and Moonprint Solutions host students on projects supporting NASA missions. Check back this fall for more information!
At NASA Centers
NASA Center based internships are highly sought after and enormously valuable to the students who are accepted. NASA hosts openings all over the country each year with applications hosted at NASA STEM Gateway.
Undergraduate Tuition Awards
Undergraduate student opportunities for tuition awards are available annually and provide $5,000 for highly qualified undergraduate students in working in STEM fields at a DESGC Consortium institution. Applications open in the Fall each year.
Wallops Island Rocketry Programs
Light a fire under your space instrumentation goals this summer with undergraduate rocketry opportunities!
Wallops Island Flight Facility hosts students from all over the country each summer for a real, hands-on rocketry experience lead by NASA scientists. Space Grant pays for travel and conference registration.
RockOn!
Beginning rocketry students work in teams of 2 with a faculty mentor to construct a rocket payload experiment from a kit. Teams from several member institutions attend the 1 week workshop at Wallops each year. Teams form in spring. If you are interested, please reach out to the Space Grant team at your home institution.
RockSat
A competitive program for advanced students to design and build a sounding rocket payload. One Delaware student team is selected each fall for the year long effort culminating in 2 summer trips to the NASA facility for integration and launch. Applications open each fall.