Co-creating with Communities Project Videos

Co-creating with Communities brings together educators, community members, and subject matter experts to co-create opportunities to learn about NASA science in ways that are locally relevant and inclusive of everyone. 

These videos include:

• Co-creating with Communities Project: This four-minute video provides a brief overview of the project.
• Youth Summit on the Future with Explora and Horizons Albuquerque in New Mexico: This one-minute video explores the Youth Summit on the Future, hosted in 2024 at Explora in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Part of a community co-creation effort led by Explora and Horizons Albuquerque, the event emphasized the importance of supporting youth as leaders in their communities.
• Día de los Muertos with STEAMBrando Futuros in Mesa, Arizona: This two-minute video highlights the science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) community engagement programs co-created by the Mesa community and the STEAMBrando Futuros team for a Día de los Muertos event in October 2024 in Mesa, Arizona. Partners reflect on the event as a culmination of their work, talking about the importance of the community seeing themselves as practitioners of STEAM and identifying the many ways STEAM shows up in our daily lives.
• Día de los Niños with Community Family Centers and the Children's Museum of Houston in Texas: This two-minute video explores inspiring co-creation work led by Community Family Centers and the Children's Museum of Houston during their 2025 Día de los Niños event.  By working closely with their community, they have created ways to deeply engage families and create paths to lifelong learning.
• Space Fest with the Children's Museum of Brownsville in Texas: This two-and-a-half-minute video captures the excitement of Space Fest, hosted by the city of Brownsville, Texas. The 2025 event featured robotics, virtual reality (VR), and other STEM and space science experiences created by the Children's Museum of Brownsville and local partners.
• Family Engagement Night at Antioch Middle School in Antioch, California: This two-minute video showcases a 2025 family engagement night hosted at Antioch Middle School in Antioch, California, that focused on NASA Earth and space science. Through community co-creation led by the Lawrence Hall of Science and Bay Area Community Resources, the community was also able to make valuable connections to Indigenous culture in STEM.
• San Ysidro STEM Fair at La Mirada Elementary School in San Ysidro, California: This two-minute video spotlights the 2025 San Ysidro STEM Fair at La Mirada Elementary School in San Ysidro, California. Co-creators in this work, including San Ysidro School District and the Fleet Science Center, discuss the importance of helping students see themselves in STEM and spark curiosity for future careers in the sciences.

For more information about the initiative visit:
https://www.nisenet.org/cocreatingcommunities