NASA HUNCH 2026–27 (High school students United with NASA to Create Hardware)

HUNCH partners NASA centers with schools across the country. Students work in areas such as design and prototyping, hardware fabrication, sewn flight articles, culinary (an entrée for astronauts), software, video and media, and biomedical science, and some continue to a flight-configuration year. It runs as a dedicated class, part of a class or a club; there are over 300 participating schools nationally, and more than 4,000 student-made projects or products have flown on the ISS.