MISSION STATEMENT

The Florida Space Grant Consortium (FSGC) is a voluntary association of seventeen public and
private Florida Universities and Colleges, all the community colleges in the state, Kennedy Space
Center Astronaut Memorial Foundation, Higher Education Consortium for Science and
Mathematics, and Spaceport Florida Authority. Collectively, it serves more than 230,000 university students (100% of the public enrollment and approximately 75% of total Florida enrollments).

FSGC represents the State of Florida in NASA's Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. As one of the sixteen founding Space Grant Consortia, it was formed in 1989 when the federal Space Grant program was implemented. With programs now in place in fifty states plus Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia, Space Grant now joins the Land Grant and Sea Grant Programs to form a triad of federally mandated programs addressing critical national needs in education, research and service.

The Florida Space Grant Consortium is dedicated to:
 
• Helping Florida assume its appropriate leadership role in developing the nation's technological and scientific aerospace-related enterprises,
 
• Increasing opportunities for all of Florida's citizens to contribute their energies and creativity  to such   enterprises thereby enabling them to share in the economic rewards and satisfactions derived from contributing to the success of these enterprises, and
 
• Capitalizing upon the motivational power of space-related activities to help a new generation of children to develop the knowledge and skills necessary to lead productive lives in the context of the rapidly evolving demands of today's technological society.

To achieve these goals, the FSGC:
 
• Marshals the strengths of its affiliated universities in cooperative efforts to strengthen our respective instructional and research programs, and
 
• Fosters joint programs and cooperation with public and private agencies and corporations with compatible objects.
 

To realize these programmatic objectives, the FSGC:
 

• Provides seed funding for research programs requiring cooperative efforts between universities and industries.

• Provides fellowships for doctoral students engaged in space related research, and

• Provides opportunities for undergraduate students to engage in research programs under faculty mentorship.

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