2025 Space Academy Applications: Opening Soon!
We are thrilled to share that the La Cañada Flintridge Sister Cities International Space Academy program applications will soon be open for the 2025-2026 school year.
KEY INFO:
Applications will be accessed via this website.
Applications will be open from August 8-September 3, 2025.
Finalists will be notified on or before September 8, 2025.
The International Space Academy is an internationally award-winning high school program co-sponsored by La Cañada Flintridge Sister Cities and JPL. This opportunity is a space entreprenuerial program where student teams form start-up companies and compete on challenges spanning from design of launchers and langers to a stock market simulation and coding a rover. In addition, La Cañada students connect with students in our sister city of Villanueva de la Cañada in a collaboration that has enhanced the program. In 2020, the program won a Sister Cities International award for Innovation in Education.
Space Academy is open to students in grades 11-12 who attend any of the four local high schools in La Cañada Flintridge: La Cañada High School, Flintridge Sacred Heart Academy, Flintridge Preparatory School and St. Francis High School. The program meets over a 10-week period from September through November. It consists of 10 mandatory sessions that take place on Fridays from 3:45-5:45pm on the JPL campus in the von Kármán Auditorium. Applicants must be able to commit to attending all 10 sessions in person. The dates are: 9/12, 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31 (TEST LAUNCH), 11/7 and 11/14 (FINAL LAUNCH). In addition, students will need to meet on their own and collaborate with students in Spain. Accepted applicants are required to pay a $200 program fee.
Applicants must complete a brief online application, which will be open and available on this website between August 8-September 3, 2025. Selected participants will be notified on or before September 8, 2025 if they are chosen to join this year’s program. Accepted students will be required to become student members of LCF Sister Cities.
We look forward to reviewing our next round of candidates.
Thank you for your interest!