Summer Opportunity in AeRonautics for High School Scholars (SOAR) is a new NASA national summer aeronautics enrichment program for high school juniors and seniors.  The program is designed to engage students across the United States in a science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) program that focuses on aeronautics to encourage their pursuit of various educational disciplines critical to NASA’s future missions.  To be considered, students must be a U.S. citizen, be in 11^th or 12^th grade at the time of application, and have at least a 3.0 overall unweighted grade point average (GPA) on a 4.0 scale.

SOAR’s main objectives are to:  

1) contribute to the development of America’s STEM workforce of the future and

2) engage students and their families through hands-on, interactive, aeronautics-related educational activities to increase their science and technology literacy.  The program features interactive aeronautics activities, aeronautics design projects, flight simulation software, RC model-aircraft demonstrations, model rocketry, scientific ballooning, wind tunnel testing, tours, and many other activities.