09/30/2013
The INSPIRE Online Learning Community will close at midnight on Sept. 30 2013. Here is the official announcement:
Dear INSPIRE students,
I want to personally thank each of you for your contribution and participation in the NASA INSPIRE project! With your unwavering loyalty and dedication, INSPIRE has been a huge success! We thank you for being a part of this exciting and one-of-a-kind community.
As most of you know, NASA Education has been mandated to make spending cuts as called for in the Budget Control Act of 2011. The law mandates series of indiscriminate and significant across-the-board spending reductions. As result, NASA has been forced to implement a number of new cost-saving measures, policies, and reviews in order to minimize impacts to the mission-critical activities of the Agency. We have worked hard to move this project forward in this time of unsettled budgets, but were unable to find a positive solution. I regret to inform you the INSPIRE project will not move forward for the 2013-2014 school year. Please continue to check the NASA education for students website for other NASA opportunities.
I would like to encourage all of you to continue the journey you started with INSPIRE to a STEM career. The INSPIRE team wishes you well on this journey.
STEVE CHANCE
INSPIRE Project Manager
