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About the Florida Space Grant Consortium
The Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC)
was formed in 1989, when NASA implemented the
National Space
Grant College and Fellowship Program. FSGC was one of the
sixteen founding Space Grant Consortia. Currently there are
now Space Grant programs active in all fifty states as well
as Puerto Rico and Washington D.C. When combined with the
Land Grant and Sea Grant Programs, Space Grant forms the final
leg of a triad of federally mandated programs addressing critical
national needs in education, research, and service.
FSGC is administered through the
University
of Central Florida and the Florida Space Institute, and its
main offices are located at the Astronaut Memorial Foundation's
Center for Space Education, found on the grounds of the Kennedy
Space Center Visitor's Complex. The Consortium is a voluntary
association of seventeen public and private Florida Universities
and colleges. The Consortium also includes all of Florida's
community colleges, as well as the Spaceport Florida Authority,
the Higher Education Consortium for Science and Mathematics, the Kennedy Space Center,
and the Astronaut Memorial Foundation.
The Mission of
the Florida Space Grant Consortium
The Florida Space Grant Consortium sees
ourselves developing stronger contacts with government, industry,
and educational partners, and using these contacts and partnerships
to further meet the needs of Florida's educational system.
In addition, FSGC will work closely with Kennedy Space Center
(KSC), as KSC moves its focus to becoming a Spaceport Technology
Center. This close interaction will afford greater opportunities
for our award recipients to perform research and investigations
on projects that will be utilized by real-world space-related
projects and missions.
The Vision of
the Florida Space Grant Consortium
The Florida Space Grant Consortium will
support the expansion and diversification of Florida's space
industry, through providing grants, scholarships, and fellowships
to students and educators from Florida's public and private
institutes of higher education.
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