SPAN were invited to a roundtable discussion hosted by Deputy High Commissioner Elizabeth Bowes PSM at Australia House. The event welcomed Professor Christopher Lawrence and Lieutenant General Larry James, from Monash University, as well as representatives from the UK Space Agency and Australia House. The discussion focused on how Australia’s National Indigenous Space Academy (NISA) is inspiring a new generation of First Nations people to intern at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL).
First Nations Australian University students now have the chance to aim high with the NISA internship program, which was founded in Adelaide in 2023 and is funded by NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) and the Australian Space Agency.
The programme, delivered by Monash University, sends students studying in STEM fields to NASA’s JPL in California for a summer internship program in which students partner with a NASA JPL scientist or engineer mentor. If you would like to be connected to the team at Monash University please drop Anushka an email at info@span.ac.uk and we’ll connect you.
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