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FY 2018 Year 4 Extension Annual Performance Document Template

Louisiana Space Grant Consortium Lead Institution: Louisiana State University (LSU) Dr. T. Gregory Guzik, Director 225.578-8597 http://laspace.lsu.edu/ NNX15AH82HD Lines of Business (LOBs): NASA Internships, Fellowships, and Scholarships; STEM Engagement; Institutional Engagement; Educator Professional Development

A. PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: The National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program consists of 52 state-based, university-led Space Grant Consortia in each of the 50 states plus the District of Columbia and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Annually, each consortium receives funds to develop and implement student fellowships and scholarships programs; interdisciplinary space- related research infrastructure, education, and public service programs; and cooperative initiatives with industry, research laboratories, and state, local, and other governments. Space Grant operates at the intersection of NASA’s interest as implemented by alignment with the Mission Directorates and the state’s interests. Although it is primarily a higher education program, Space Grant programs encompass the entire length of the education pipeline, including elementary/secondary and informal education. The Louisiana Space Grant Consortium is a Designated Consortium funded at a level of $760,000 for fiscal year 2018.

B. PROGRAM GOALS:

1. Foster aerospace related, interdisciplinary, science, technology, and engineering research and education at Louisiana colleges and universities. Objectives: Maintain the LURA, HIS, GSRA, and REA programs which support real NASA- relevant research projects for undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty researchers at colleges and universities in Louisiana. Support 1-3 NASA summer interns annually. Encourage LaSPACE funded researchers to apply for additional federal support by distributing funding opportunities and offering letters of support as relevant. Maintain participation in the statewide ballooning program, LaACES, as well as continuing to manage the HASP program at least through 2019 and to partner with the NASA Balloon Program Office to develop an extended HASP program for subsequent years.

2. Encourage aerospace related industries in Louisiana for economic development and diversification. Objectives: Develop a summer intern program with Louisiana aerospace related STEM

1 industries and support summer interns at these facilities.

3. Promote and contribute to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics precollege education excellence. Objectives: Financially support 2-5 middle and/or high school teachers to attend summer workshops/trainings for STEM curriculum development relevant to NASA, such as the Texas Liftoff workshop and Project Lead the Way certifications. Financially support 10-20 middle school teacher participants in the annual Sci-Port Scibotics teacher-training program. Provide staff and material support at affiliate university campuses for at least two projects/events targeting middle school/high school students over the next three years.

4. Engage and educate the general public in NASA’s space exploration projects, benefits and opportunities as well as Louisiana’s role in the NASA program. Objectives: Support at least three Mobile Astronomy Resource System (MARS) events every year at public or school venues around the state. Encourage science center and university collaborations resulting in a yearly proposal to NASA informal education solicitations as available, or similar funding opportunities. Increase partnership activities with science and informal learning centers within Louisiana, resulting in one additional partnership per year.

5. Maintain a cooperative, effective, and inclusive consortium of Louisiana institutions to promote aerospace related research, education, and economic development. Objectives: Improve affiliate participation in consortium meetings, program solicitations, and survey responses by 4% each year over the next 3 years. Improve participation of minorities, females, and other diverse groups by 5% per year over the next period. Enhance regular communication with affiliates by establishing a web accessible database of LaSPACE announcements within the first year and investigate new communication technologies. Continue to hold at least one state-wide Consortium Council meeting each year.

In addition to maintaining the goals listed above from our base proposal, our extension proposal committed to the following additional objectives: 6. Developing new hands-on flight projects in the area of sounding rockets, 7. Expanding opportunities for technical training at community colleges, and 8. Improving diversity through opportunities for students at our HBCU affiliates.

C. PROGRAM/PROJECT BENEFITS TO PROGRAM AREAS: We have focused much of this last year on improving our already robust student flight initiatives, including the establishment of a formal award mechanism managed by the lead office for steady participation in the annual RockOn! Workshops managed by Colorado Space Grant and implemented at Wallops Flight Facility every summer. We piloted the program during our 4th year and sent a contingent of 15 Louisiana faculty, staff, and students to the workshop from institutions: Delgado Community College, LSU, McNeese, and ULL. Several of the students invited to participate were selected based on their competitively awarded summer internships under the Louisiana USIP project, COTEL, thereby better aligning the goals of two OSTEM supported initiatives. Two of those three interns proved an immediate return on investment. Christina Adams of Delgado Community College successfully transferred to LSU to pursue a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and is now employed with the advanced LaSPACE

LSU Student Ballooning team. Anthony Miller of McNeese secured a competitive LURA award for a research project he designed, which commenced in the Fall of 2018. Ben Thirkle, a student participant in the Delgado LaACES team, also attended RockOn! 2018 before transferring to LSU in the fall where he is a Physics undergraduate student and member of the LSU Advanced Student Ballooning group. The spirit of the National Space Grant College and Fellowship program is to ensure students and faculty across the country, at all institutions of higher education, are exposed to the research priorities of and technical capabilities required by NASA. The hope is to attract and retain talent in all jurisdictions through Space Grant Funding and to build that infrastructure through other NASA programs. The Louisiana Space Grant Program has spent significant energy and capital building a scientific ballooning program for college students, and the return on investment has proven invaluable to increasing participation in NASA relevant research and to developing infrastructure at our institutions of higher education. Xavier University of Louisiana, an HBCU, is one of our long-standing LaACES participants. Using the LaACES curriculum as a basis, Dr. Freddie Landry developed a proposal for our new HBCU Institutional Scholars (HIS) program. In addition to the scientific ballooning work, participating students at Xavier receive more hands-on training and mentoring, as well as access to prestigious professional development activities such as guest lectures and special tours of nearby NASA facilities like Stennis and Michoud Assembly Facility. Delgado Community College was introduced to the LaACES ballooning program via a special Space Grant solicitation aimed at Community College participation back in 2014. After the initial two-year mentorship program was complete, Delgado became a steady participant in the regular LaACES program led by Assistant Professor Joanna Rivers, even successfully competing against 8 other LaACES teams at the 2017 CSBF launch trip for one of 3 seats available to participate in the 2017 Solar Eclipse Balloon Flight at SIU in Carbondale, Illinois. Since then, Ms. Rivers has continued to participate in LaACES, led a team of students to participate in the 2018 Summer RockOn! Workshop, landed herself a summer 2018 NASA Faculty Fellowship at Marshall, placed two students in the NASA Community College Aerospace Scholars program, managed a student-developed proposal for a RockSat-C slot, and is associated with two new MUREP proposals currently under review. Ms. Rivers has been accepted as a speaker at the Spring 2019 National Space Grant Directors Meeting in DC and two of her students will present a poster at the same meeting.

D. PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS: • NASA Internships, Fellowships, and Scholarships (NIFS): LaSPACE supports the NIFS program area via four sub-programs laid out in our 2015-2018 proposal, and recommitted to in our 4th Year Extension (2018-2019). The particular programs involved here include Internships, LaSPACE Undergraduate Research Assistantships (LURA), the new HBCU Institutional Scholars (HIS) program, and the Graduate Student Research Assistance (GSRA). For graduate students we have the Graduate Student Research Assistance (GSRA) program, which provides $8K (with a required 1:1 match) to a graduate student for supplemental financial support and funding for supplies and travel in pursuit of NASA-aligned research in fulfillment of a Master’s or PhD degree. We planned to support at least 5 GSRA awards for our fourth-year extension, but were able to support a couple more. We issued 7 GSRAs to students from LaTech, LSU, Southern University, and ULL.

LaSPACE supports 3 distinct NIFS programs for undergraduate student researchers: Summer Interns at NASA, LURAs, and HIS program awards at our HBCUs. During the summer of 2018, we were able to support 5 undergraduate student interns from 3 campuses (LaTech, LSU, & UNO) placed at 4 NASA Centers (Stennis, Michoud, Ames, & Marshall). Our intensive LURA program provides $6k per student for a year-long research project with $5K minimum disbursed directly to the student, and the remaining funds allocated for supplies and professional development activities like presenting at a meeting or conference. A joint application is submitted by the student and the faculty mentor. Student applicants must coordinate their effort with a faculty mentor and be able to devote 10-20 hours per week to the project. Faculty mentors must 1) be affiliated with a LaSPACE campus, 2) be engaged in NASA Mission Directorate related research or education, and 3) serve as the student’s faculty mentor. We committed to funding at least 6 LURAs during our 4th year extension, but were able to actually fund 12 meritorious students from 3 campuses (LaTech, LSU, & McNeese). Our final undergraduate NIFS program is our newest, the LaSPACE HBCU Institutional Scholars (HIS) program. A HIS award provides funding to support a comprehensive undergraduate student program which offers a structured research or design opportunity for participating students, as well as professional development opportunities such as regular workshops and lectures on topics ranging from effective technical communications to tips on applying to grad school. Programs also support invited speakers from local industry and field trips to nearby NASA facilities, like Stennis and Michoud. These programs are awarded at $20- 40K per institution with a requirement that all supported students meet the threshold for significant support (typically a combination of the 160 hrs / $5K direct support). We hoped to fund between 2-4 awards in the 4th year, and were able to successfully support three total projects across Southern University and A&M College in Baton Rouge (SUBR), Southern University in New Orleans (SUNO), and Xavier University of Louisiana in New Orleans. • Higher Education projects: LaSPACE supports three major higher education programs. Two state-based programs, the Louisiana Aerospace Catalyst Experiences for Students (LaACES) and Senior Design support are open exclusively to affiliates of the Louisiana Space Grant Consortium. The third program, the High Altitude Student Platform (HASP) is a national/international program operated in cooperation with the NASA Balloon Program Office. LaACES runs for a full academic year. During the first semester a series of lectures and hands-on activities help build student skills in basic electronics, sensor interfacing, real-time programming, mechanical development, and project management. The second semester is then devoted to applying these skills to the design, development, fabrication, and flight of a small (~500 gram) balloon payload. All student teams ultimately fly their payloads in May during a launch trip to the Columbia Scientific Balloon Facility in Palestine, TX. During the summer of 2018, we flew 8 student teams from 5 campuses: 3 from McNeese, 2 from LSU, and 1 each from Delgado Community College, Louisiana Tech, and Xavier University. We also supported the travel of a faculty member from Southeastern University to attend the launch in anticipation of submitting a project proposal for LaACES during the 2018-2019 academic year. For the current 4th year extension year, we are supporting teams at Delgado Community College, Grambling, McNeese, Southeastern, LSU, and Xavier.

The LaSPACE Senior Design Program was developed to offer supplemental funding in support of high-level student-led research and design projects. Projects must show clear relevance to NASA’s mission and ongoing research at one or more of the NASA centers/under the umbrella of one or more of the four mission directorates. This funding source supplements the cost of materials and supplies and/or travel for competitions related to the student project. Award funds can be reques ted up to $4000; while no strict cost-match is required, we do encourage affiliates to show an institutional investment by putting up some match. For 2018-19 we proposed to support between 2—4, and have actually been able to support 7 projects at 4 campuses, 3 at LSU and 1 each at LaTech, McNeese, and UNO. LaSPACE has collaborated with the NASA Balloon Program Office (BPO) at NASA Wallops Flight Facility on the HASP program since 2005. HASP provides an annual opportunity for up to 12 higher education student teams across the nation to fly an advanced payload to an altitude of about 125,000 feet for a duration of 10 to 20 hours. NASA BPO supports the balloon flight infrastructure and flight operations while LaSPACE services the platform and mentors the student teams. During this 13th year of operation, HASP involved 163 students from 14 institutions from 9 continental U.S. states and 3 additional countries, a high school team from Belgium and university teams from Canada and the UK. To date HASP has flown 124 payloads developed by nearly 1,300 students for a total accumulated flight time in the near-space environment of over one week. During this 4th year extension, we also established a new higher education program called the Support for Advanced Flight Opportunities for Students (SAFOS). This program aims to encourage student participation in aerospace research by providing funds for the development of student satellite payloads and other space-engineering products. We discuss it in more detail in the Section F (Improvements made this year). • Research Infrastructure projects: The comprehensive LaSPACE Research Infrastructure (RI) program has the purpose of 1) supporting emerging early career researchers or new research directions, 2) expanding research involvement at minority institutions and four-year schools, 3) fostering collaborations and seed projects to bring Louisiana scientists into the mainstream of NASA-related research activity, 4) technical training for the next generation aerospace workforce, and 5) engaging local industries and promoting economic development for the state. In additional to our formal Research Enhancement Award (REA) program, it should be noted that all of our NIFS programs to support undergraduate and graduate students require said students to be actively working on a research project. This provides both the necessary experience for our students, as well as much needed support for faculty researchers. The REA program, LaSPACE’s most robust and longest-running RI program, provides seed funding for an early career researcher, or an established researcher exploring a new project, with an opportunity to develop an idea in preparation for involvement in a larger funded project. Our twenty-ninth REA competition held in the spring of 2017 with projects starting in July and August received 24 proposals. We were able to fund 7 projects across 3 universities: 4 at LaTech, 2 at LSU, and 1 collaboration project at LSU- Health Sciences Center in Shreveport in partnership with LSU-Shreveport. These awards are supporting research across a number of

5 disciplines including Sustainable Energy, Space Biology & Health Science, Marsquakes, Wastewater Treatment, and Nanotechnology for Genetic Analysis in Space. • Precollege projects: LaSPACE has established a small but targeted program aimed toward enhancing precollege education focusing on the training of K-12 in-service teachers with an emphasis on middle school. In the summer of 2018, we financially supported six Louisiana middle school teachers’ participation in the annual Liftoff Workshop offered by Texas Space Grant and Johnson Space Center in Houston. We are also reviewing a project from the LSU College of Science for a Geaux Girls Science education event targeting a hands-on science experience for a couple dozen middle school girls. • Informal Education projects: The LaSPACE informal education and public outreach program was developed to provide supplemental learning experiences about NASA projects and science results for the general public, as well as to augment STEM learning in the formal environment. For the last few years, we have been successful in bringing the MARS Truck, or Mobile Astronomy Resource System, to a variety of general public events and school-based events. For our fourth year extension, we have supported 5 events, including school based STEM nights and festivals like the annual Louisiana Earth Day Festival and the annual East Baton Rouge Parish’s Mini Maker Faire. We are also in the progress of getting our state Public Television Station (LPB) officially added to our affiliate network, and hope to work with them to produce and promote programming related to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo mission.

E. PROGRAM CONTRIBUTIONS TO NASA EDUCATION PERFORMANCE GOALS: • Diversity: LaSPACE has always been an open consortium, offering membership to any organization that shares the consortium's goals and objectives. The LaSPACE network includes 30 affiliates that represent the social and economic diversity across the state. Of the 22 universities and colleges that are part of LaSPACE, 16 (or over 75%) have been designated by the U.S. Department of Education as a Minority Institution or eligible for Title III and Title V programs at least once between 2010 and 2014 (marked by a ‘*’ in the list on page 8 of this report). Included in these numbers are five of the six Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCU) in Louisiana identified by the White House in 2015. NCES statistics show a statewide minority enrollment of ~36% in all disciplines. State statistics show that of students enrolled in STEM degree programs 28% are classed as minority and 22% are women. We exceeded these benchmarks the last three years and anticipate achieving comparable participation rates this year. The LaSPACE Council, comprised of institutional representatives from each active affiliate and the 5-person management team at LSU, includes 5 underrepresented minorities and 11 women. • Minority Serving Institution Collaborations: Five of the six Historically Black Universities and Colleges (HBCUs) and two of the four Primarily Black Institutions in Louisiana are affiliates of LaSPACE. HBCUs Dillard University, Grambling State University, Southern University and A&M in Baton Rouge (SUBR), Southern University in New Orleans (SUNO), and Xavier University of Louisiana are all active members

6 of the consortium, as are PBIs Baton Rouge Community College and Delgado Community College. Three of the six campuses participating in this year’s LaACES program are Minority Serving Institutions, Delgado, Grambling, & Xavier. SUBR, SUNO, and Xavier all have active NIFS programs under our new HBCU Institutional Scholars (HIS) Program, which aims to develop a small focused program to train students on HBCU campuses for research careers via experiences not traditionally found inside the classroom. Additionally, the Assistant Director for LaSPACE, has served as an advisor on ways to integrate Space Grant and NASA EPSCoR into the proposed activities of two pending MUREP MIRA proposals, 1 from Dillard (a Louisiana HBCU) and 1 from another Jurisdiction (Puerto Rico) that is partnering with LSU. Finally, the the lead instructor for our LaACES program at Delgado has submitted a MISTC proposal in collaboration with Marshall and with the PI on our FY2019 NASA EPSCoR Proposal submitted out of ULL. We are working to identify more ways to recruit women and other underrepresented individuals to apply for funding from our programs. • Office of Education Annual Performance Indicators:

o API 3.3.3: STEM-18-1 24 NIF (10 to Women; 4 to Underrepped Minorities) 1

o API 3.3.5: STEM-18-5 Unknown2 1We have not received any demographic data on our HBCU Institutional Scholars projects at SUBR, SUNO, and Xavier. We anticipate approximately 20 NIFS funded students and expect a majority of those funded to be underrepresented. The number included here only accounts for underrepresented students funded under a GSRA, LURA, or NASA Internship. The total number of significantly direct funded students will increase when we collect all the data this spring and the number of underrepresented students will correspondingly rise. Additionally, we are not counting students supported under our other program areas: Higher Education and Research Infrastructure because that data has not been reported to us either. 2Cannot provide a number. This APD reports on projects in progress and publications/presentations typically occur after the period of performance has concluded. F. IMPROVEMENTS MADE IN THE PAST YEAR: Higher Education: LaSPACE’s signature student ballooning program, LaACES (Louisiana Aerospace Catalyst Experience for Students) has been running for over 15 years and while still a highly effective student training program, the materials and electronics were growing increasingly outdated. Under the direction of the LaSPACE Director and the Balloon Program Manager, a team of advanced students – including one continuing LSU Physics undergraduate (Blaine Irle), two Community College Transfer Students in EE (Chrissy Adams) and Physics (Ben Thirkle), and an advisory Physics Graduate Student (Emma Western) – have revamped the entire curriculum and hardware. The program, traditionally deployed over a full academic year, can now be easily adapted for other timeframes, including a single semester. The electronics and other hardware have been fully updated, replacing dated BalloonSat & Sensor boards with a three-part MegaSat board, composed of an Arduino mega, an ACES Sensor board, and an Adafruit GPS logger shield. Additional lectures are also being developed, including a tutorial on surface soldering, the use and operation of an oscilloscope, and instructions for using and capturing data with GPS. Higher Education: With the long-term and widespread success of the LaACES program across the state and the recognition that student flight programs are of immeasurable value,

LaSPACE piloted two additional programs during our 4th year. First, we developed a formal mechanism to support Louisiana teams at the annual RockOn! Workshop run by Colorado Space Grant and hosted at NASA Wallops Flight Facility. We fully funded five teams of three in 2018 and will send another 15 participants from Louisiana this summer. While RockOn! and LaACES are excellent vehicles for introducing students to flight projects, we did not have a formal funding vehicle in place to support more advanced flight projects. To fill that gap we created Support for Advanced Flight Opportunities for Students (SAFOS) Program, which aims to encourage student participation in aerospace research by providing funds for the development of student satellite payloads and other space-engineering products. SAFOS was developed with several established advanced flight programs in mind. Advanced flight projects offer student scientists and engineers a real-world technical and project management experience, which contributes to a skilled technical workforce for the aerospace industry. Funds from SAFOS may be used to support student teams participating in programs like HASP, RockSat-C, and RockSat- X. Other advanced flight programs that emphasize a complete project lifecycle, from design to build through flight and post-flight analysis, are eligible. We have already awarded funding to Delgado Community College for the RockSat-C program, while proposals from LSU for a HASP project and UNO for a LEO project are both under development and will be submitted soon. Informal Education / Outreach & High Education: Repairs and Refurbishments to the Mobile Astronomy Resource System (MARS) Truck. To extend the lifetime and improve the functionality of the MARS Truck vehicle for years to come, a number of repairs and upgrades were made.The most critical repair performed was to the roof of the box portion of the truck, which had begun to leak due to flexing from the weight of the mounted AC unit. Three support ribs were installed in the box to prop up the roof back to factory specifications, and new sealant was applied to any areas where the factory sealant had failed. The ribs are made using stainless steel unistrut which, apart from support, can also be used as mounting points for shelves, tie- downs, straps, etc. Due to water damage, all original interior lighting had to be removed and replaced with multicolor LED lighting that can be switched to red for preserving night vision.. To improve storage capabilities of the truck and to enable quick redeployments between Informal Education/Outreach events and Balloon Flight Launch Trips, the static shelves were removed from the box and replaced by a modular storage system. The new system is comprised of several 52” tool cabinets and steel carts, which can all easily be rolled on and off the truck. Each tool cabinet and cart is loaded with the necessary materials for a specific task so that when preparing for an event you only need to load the cabinets and carts that are needed for that event. Service to National Network: The LaSPACE Director serves on the Executive Committees of the National Council of Space Grant Directors, the Space Grant Alliance, and the NASA EPSCoR Caucus (serves as Treasurer). The Assistant Director is assigned to a part-time Space Grant Communications Detail with NASA HQ and serves as the Co-Chair of the Space Grant Communications Working Group. The Director and Balloon Program Manager work in collaboration with the NASA Balloon Program Office to manage international student ballooning program, HASP. Management: After nearly six years of service, our Program Manager Colleen H. Fava was promoted to Assistant Director in August of 2018; two months later we hired a new Program Manager, Meaghin Woolie. The acquisition of a new professional member of our management

8 team will help in the short-term to alleviate demands on the Assistant Director’s time as she embarks on her 50% appointment to NASA HQ for the Space Grant Communications Lead Detail. In the long-term, an additional professional staff member will enable us to pursue additional funding opportunities and to develop stronger programmatic plans and policies, especially in the areas of diversity recruitment and program evaluation. Additional Improvements in-Progress: One of the major tasks of the year is to create and sustain a viable social media presence for our programs. We have relaunched our Facebook Page, created a twitter account, are rebranding our balloon program YouTube Channel, and will be establishing an Instagram account in the coming months.

G. CURRENT AND PROJECTED CHALLENGES: The majority of the most pressing and persistent challenges to running an effective Space Grant Program are a direct result of the continued absence of a multi-year award. The tradition of awarding this program as a 5-year cycle allowed consortia to establish meaningful yearlong Subaward program areas, but a yearlong Subaward cannot be issued from a yearlong parent award. Establishing the parent contract, releasing solicitations to affiliates, reviewing proposals and issuing subcontracts takes 4-6 months. After the subaward is in place, invoicing and final reporting on the Subaward creates a lag for invoicing and reporting on the parent grant, which tacks an additional 2-4 months onto the end of the cycle. All told, it takes about 18-20 months to successfully implement a 12 month Subaward when awarding is done annually on the parent grant. We cannot issue solicitations and accept proposals before we have an extension/new award in place, and we are also prohibited from issuing end dates beyond the current contractual end date, which means added paperwork to request extensions on dozens of Subawards every year. This is all a highly ineffective use of the management team’s time and has severe, detrimental impacts on our ability to serve our statewide population. Inconsistent reporting periods and content requests from HQ are also challenging our ability to tend to our programmatic needs. We just completed another cycle of OEPM (only 6 months from the last time we submitted OEPM data) and only weeks before this APD was due. This is time consuming and frustrating because we are not even reporting on the same periods of performance/Subawards. Additionally, there are always surprise changes to our reporting, like the new APIs in this year’s request. It is very difficult to structure a program when the metrics are unannounced and keep changing with no advance warning.

H. PROGRAM PARTNERS AND ROLE OF PARTNERS IN PROJECT EXECUTION: Consortium members (see list below) include colleges/universities [Research Intensive (RIU); Research Active (RAU); Four year institutions (4YI); Community Colleges (CC), HBCU's], business/industry partners (B/I), state education boards (Ed), and nonprofit organizations (NPO), structured as Active Members (AM), Inactive Members (IM), and New Members (NM), the latter are members that signed on within the last 6 months. Affiliates designated by the U.S. Department of Education as a Minority Institution or eligible for Title III and Title V programs are marked with an asterisk (“*”). Each member has an institutional representative/coordinator. When that position becomes vacant, the institution becomes Inactive until a new representative is appointed. As an open consortium, joining LaSPACE is simple, requiring a letter of interest submitted to LaSPACE by an authorized institutional representative,

9 which designates an institutional coordinator. Overall, it is the Institutional Coordinators that have the responsibility for recruiting students on their campuses, publicizing LaSPACE opportunities, and building an aerospace component to the campus activities, utilizing methods that work locally. List of Louisiana Space Grant Consortium Members (Alphabetical) Baton Rouge Community College (BRCC): AM, CC,* Delgado Community College (DCC): AM, CC,* Dillard University (Dillard): AM, HBCU, 4YI,* EBR Recreation & Park Commission: Highland Road Park Observatory: AM, NPO Gordon A. Cain Center for STEM Literacy: AM, NPO Grambling State University (GSU): AM, HBCU, 4YI,* Jacobs Technology, Inc. at Michoud (Jacobs): AM, B/I Louisiana Arts and Science Museum / Pennington Planetarium (LASM): AM, NPO Louisiana Board of Elementary & Secondary Education (BESE): AM, Ed Louisiana Board of Regents (BOR) (Co-founding Institution): AM, Ed Louisiana Business and Technology Center (LBTC): AM, B/I Louisiana State University and A&M College (LSU) (Co-founding/ Lead Institution): AM, RIU Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center in Shreveport (LSUHSC-S): AM, RAU Louisiana State University Alexandria (LSU-A): NM, 4YI,* Louisiana State University Shreveport (LSU-S): AM, 4YI,* Louisiana State University Agricultural Center (LSU-Ag): AM, RIU Louisiana Tech University (LaTech): AM, RAU Loyola University (Loyola): AM, 4YI McNeese State University (McNeese): AM, 4YI,* Nicholls State University (Nicholls): AM, RAU,* Northshore Technical Community College (NTCC): NM, CC Northwestern State University of Louisiana (NWSU): AM, 4YI,* River Parishes Community College (RPCC): AM, NM, CC,* SciPort Louisiana’s Science Center (SciPort): AM, NPO Southeastern Louisiana University (SELU): AM, 4YI,* Southern University and A & M College (SUBR) (Co-founding Institution): AM, HBCU, RAU,* Southern University of New Orleans (SUNO): AM, HBCU, 4YI,* Tulane University (Tulane): AM, RIU University of Louisiana at Lafayette (ULL): AM, RAU,* University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM): AM, 4YI,* University of New Orleans (UNO): AM, RAU,* Xavier University of Louisiana (Xavier): AM, HBCU, RAU,* The Council (comprised of all institutional reps and the central management team at LSU) is the primary oversight and advisory board for LaSPACE. The Council meets annually for a formal two-day meeting during the fall semester at one of our affiliate’s campuses, and communicates via teleconference and email between meetings. General administration and management is the responsibility of the LaSPACE Management Team at LSU. The council convenes quarterly via three hourly teleconferences and one two-day in-person meeting.