For Students

Undergraduate, graduate and professional students: The WSGC wants to fund your research in an aerospace-related STEM field on your campus. 

• We want to help connect you with powerful, life-changing NASA internships and fellowships.
• We want to connect you with our commercial partners for internships in Wisconsin’s growing aerospace community.
• We want to bring you together with other students for an intensive summer research project culminating in the flight of a near-space balloon payload.

Explore our funding programs below and then talk to your campus WSGC Institutional Representative to learn more. 

WSGC Student Satellite Programs

• Undergraduate Aerospace Design 10-Week Summer Research Scholarship
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 10-Week Summer Research Scholarship

Rocket Competitions

• First Nations Launch National Rocket Competition
• Collegiate Rocket Competition
• Regional Rocket Competition

WSGC Graduate & Professional Research Fellowships

• WSGC Graduate & Professional Research Fellowship
• Dr. Laurel Salton Clark Memorial Graduate & Professional Research Fellowship

WSGC Undergraduate Scholarships and Fellowships

• Undergraduate Scholarship Program
• Women in Aviation 
• STEM Bridge Scholarship Program
• Undergraduate Research Fellowship
• WSGC Internships
• WSGC Wisconsin Aerospace Internship

NASA Internships

• NASA Academy/Center Internships
• NASA Internships and Fellowships

Other Opportunities

• Ames Research Center - NASA Space Life Sciences Training Program
• Applied Physics Lab (APL) Internship Program
• CalTech Space Challenge
• Colorado Space Grant Consortium RockOn!, RockSat-C, RockSat-X
• FAA Challenge - Smart Airport Student Competition
• Glenn Research Center - University Design Challenge
• International Space University
• Louisiana Space Grant Consortium High Altitude Student Platform
• Lunar and Planetary Institute (LPI) Summer Intern Program in Planetary Science
• NASA’s Big Idea Challenge
• NASA Micro-g Neutral Buoyancy Experiment Design Teams (Micro-g NExT)
• NASA RASC-AL
• NASA Robotic Mining Competition (Lunabotics)
• NASA Rover Challenge
• NASA Space Apps Challenge
• NASA Space Robotics Challenge Phase 2
• NASA STEM Engagement
• NASA Student Design
• NASA Student Facebook
• NASA Student Launch
• NASA SUITS