FY 2019 Year 5 Extension Annual Performance Document Template CO_FY19_Year 5Ext_APD Colorado Space Grant Consortium Lead Institution: University of Colorado Chris Koehler, Director 303/492.3141 spacegrant.colorado.edu Grant Number: NNX15AK04H 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 Colorado Space Grant Consortium is a Designated Consortium funded at a level of $760,000 for fiscal year 2019. A. PROGRAM GOALS • Population of students engaged in COSGC hands-on programs (awardees and non-awardees) will be at least 40% women and 24% from ethnic minority populations underrepresented in STEM fields. • Maintain student hands-on programs at all 8 COSGC Minority Serving Institutions and engaged at least 60 students on MSI campuses. • 30% of COSGC NASA funds will be awarded directly to students. • Fund at least 149 awards to support students working on hands-on projects. • Facilitate the RockOn Workshop and RockSat-C and –X programs in collaboration with NASA Wallops Flight Facility. • Continue to facilitate statewide activities DemoSat (balloon payloads), Robotics Challenge (autonomous rovers), and Undergraduate Space Research Symposium. • Engage at least 142 non-award participants in Higher Education (HE) hands-on projects. • Every COSGC higher education affiliate will facilitate at least 1 HE hands-on student project. • At least 11 affiliates will facilitate 2 HE hands-on student projects. • At least 3 affiliates will facilitate 3 or more HE student projects. • Facilitate 1 low-Earth orbiting satellite project. • Continue internship collaborations with Lockheed Martin and Digital Globe. • At least 3 affiliates will facilitate Research Infrastructure (RI) projects on their home campuses. • At least 30 students will be engaged in RI projects. • Provide teacher training for at least 37 teachers (Pre-college). B. PROGRAM/PROJECT BENEFITS TO PROGRAM AREAS The Colorado School of Mines team was 1 of 8 teams from across the country selected to build a sample lunar payload in the NASA Big Idea Challenge. A team of 8 students worked with researchers from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) & National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) supporting the development, build, and programming of an Antarctic research “station” – including the design of an underwater camera system, power system, and development of system software. The CIRES team has successfully deployed the research station on an Antarctic glacier and confirmed that student tools are fully functional. C. PROGRAM ACCOMPLISHMENTS a) NASA Internships, Fellowships, and Scholarships: • 274 students who were engaged in hands-on projects were awarded scholarships [Goal – 149] • Awardees were 37% women and 30% underrepresented [Goal 40% & 24%] • Approximately 40% of total NASA funds were awarded directly to students. [Goal 30%] Additional non-federal cost match was also used to support additional student awards. b) Higher Education Projects: • Student projects were facilitated at all 8 COSGC Minority Serving Institutions [Goal – 8]. • 136 students were engaged at the above-mentioned MSIs [Goal – 60] • COSGC facilitated the RockOn Workshop and RockSat-C and –X programs in collaborations with NASA Wallops Flight Facility. • Engaged 380 non-awardee students in Higher Education (HE) hands-on projects and courses [Goal – 120]. • ALL COSGC academic affiliates facilitated at least 1 HE hands-on project. [Goal – ALL]. • 5 affiliates facilitated 2 HE hands-on projects [Goal – 11]: o Aims CC (Aims) o Front Range CC (FRCC) o Pikes Peak CC (PPCC) o CC of Denver (CCD) o Trinidad State Junior College (TSJC) • 13 affiliates facilitated 3 or more HE hands-on projects [Goal – 3]: o Arapahoe CC (ACC) o Adams State University (ASU) o CC of Aurora (CCA) o Colorado Mesa University (CMU) o Colorado School of Mines (CSM) o Colorado State University (CSU) o Colorado State University – Pueblo (CSU-Pueblo) o Fort Lewis College (FLC) o Pueblo CC (PCC) o Red Rocks CC (RRCC) o University of Colorado Boulder (CU) o University of Northern Colorado (UNC) o Western Colorado University (WCU) Higher Education (HE) Projects included: • Short- and long-duration high altitude scientific balloon payloads • Autonomous robotics • Miscellaneous robotics projects • Sounding Rocket Payloads • Undergraduate Laboratory Research • Senior Design Teams • Training Workshops • Theoretical Physics Projects • Balloon Payload Courses • Robotics Courses • Participation in NASA & Industry sponsored competitions • High powered rocketry projects • Mars Agriculture projects • Sabatier Reactor • Astronomical Observatory Research & Other Telescope projects • Antarctic Research • Wearable Technology projects • High Powered Rocketry • Advanced & Additive Manufacturing • Space suit simulator c) Research Infrastructure Projects: • 3 COSGC campuses facilitated RI projects engaging 46 students [Goal – 3 campuses; 30 students] – CU, CSM, and University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS) • Continued internship collaborations with Lockheed Martin and Digital Globe/MAXAR. RI projects included: • Tethered CubeSat (collaboration with NASA Marshall) - UCCS • Lunar Mining (CSM) • Great Lunar Expedition for Everyone – Worldwide lunar science mission (CU) • Internships at Lockheed Martin & Digital Globe/MAXAR d) Precollege Projects: • 2 full-day professional development courses were held for in-service teachers as part of the Space Foundation’s Space Across the Curriculum program, engaging 35 teachers. [Goal 37 teachers] e) Informal Education Projects: 5 COSGC affiliate facilitated ad-hoc activities for their surrounding communities. All activities included post-secondary COSGC students facilitating activities for younger students and the general public. Activities included: • ASU - facilitated activities in the San Luis Valley STEAMShop (Community Makerspace) • CCD – Facilitated Rocket Day activities for local elementary school • CSU-Pueblo: Girl Scout STEM Day • CMU - Math Extravaganza: day-long mathematics challenges • CU – Facility tours, Lego design challenges, workshops for student societies [Goal: No goal set because of the ad-hoc nature of these endeavors.] D. MILESTONES a. Include a summary of your proposed milestones, and describe the extent to which each milestone has been met. If there have been significant deviations from your proposed milestones that will affect your initial period of performance, please provide a justification for those deviations. • Higher Education & Research Infrastructure Student Projects and the Student Awards the support these projects: Milestone in process – expect extension required through summer 2020 to ensure students complete engineering process with time for data analysis that will run about 3-5 months past expected end date. For the most part, beginner level projects were completed per proposed milestones. Year-long and advanced projects are a bit off-schedule because of late funding (cost match & other federal support), industry partner scheduling, launch slips, and student turnover. The no-cost extension request will be through December 2020 to provide a few months for affiliate programs to pay outstanding invoices and close their subcontracts. • Transfer Student Scholarships – all milestones met. Awarded August 2019. • How-to Workshops – all milestones met. Workshops facilitated June 2019 (sounding rocket payload) September 2019 (robotics), January 2020 (balloon payload & wearable technology), various student society workshops ( September 2019 – January 2020). • High Altitude Balloon Launches – all milestones met. Launches took place in July 2019, November 2019. A final launch will take place on April 4, 2019. Please note: while the April launch will take place on-time, the non-profit launch provider typically invoices for consumables 30 – 60 days following launch. This will push the invoicing into the “no-cost extension” period. • Colorado Robotics Challenge – all planning milestones and program reviews have taken place on-time. The actual challenge is scheduled to take place Friday & Saturday, April 10- 11. The activity will be completed within the current period of performance. Please note: while the activity will take place per milestone timeline, clearing of costs for April event will run at least 1 month into the “no cost extention” period (May/June). • Teacher Workshops – One workshop completed in November 2019. The second workshop is schedule for March 2020. Milestones will be completed as planned. • Undergraduate Space Research Symposium – All planning and content updates completed per milestone estimate. Actual event will take place on Saturday, April 18, 2020. Expected that clearing all expenses for the event will run into the following