Corps of Discovery Programs

The primary objective of ASL and the Corps of Discovery is to ignite a passion for STEM among students.

To do so, Corps of Discovery missions and programs utilize science fiction to help create engaging topic specific STEM educational experiences for students and public audiences.

Manned missions to the planets are impossible today, but ASL simulators represent futuristic research spacecraft. In an ASL simulator, students can easily imagine themselves traveling to those planets to study them first hand.

Having students read that Jupiter is a gas giant planet is not nearly as engaging a learning experience as is flying to Jupiter, performing experiments from orbit and determining for themselves that Jupiter is a gas giant planet.

To make the learning experience even more engaging, Corps of Discovery programs present STEM activities in the context of a dramatic story. The consequences and rewards revealed in the story provide students with the critical reasons for learning STEM and enables them to become the story’s heroes by being successfully performing STEM.

Corps of Discovery’s activities and dramatic story presentations create immersive, fun and memorable STEM learning experiences for students.