226 Alaskan students awarded and supported between 2015 - 2021

$1,726,157 in direct student support awarded between 2015-2021

62 Interns placed with NASA centers and Alaska Industry partners between 2015-2021

92% of graduates from 2015-2021 now employed in STEM fields or pursuing advanced STEM degrees

Funding Opportunities

What Our Students Say

Funding from the ASGP program allowed me to gain work experience in my profession, and specifically the discipline within the field that I am interested in. The ability to learn the nature of software development related to physical simulation and DEM modeling is extremely helpful. 

I was able to pursue much higher level research with my astrophysics faculty mentor, resulting in multiple presentations at public forums and contributions to an academic paper.

Impact

Space Technology

Brandt Lomen won the Invent Alaska Competition Grand Prize with his Pseudo-Sun Instrument.

Recent University of Alaska Fairbanks graduate Brandt Lomen has taken the top prize in the university’s 2018 Invent Alaska Competition for a device that can test solar cells on Earth, in space and on other planets by mimicking the light of the sun.

Lomen’s Pseudo-Sun Instrument was…

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Brandt Lomen

Max Martell of UAF

The old adage goes that if you shoot for the moon and miss, that you’ll land among the stars. That is exactly what engineering student Max Martell did. (click photo for rest of story)

Martell, a senior in his final year, is studying petroleum engineering at the University of Alaska…

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Max Martell