NASA Announces Dates for International Space Apps Challenge Hackathons “NASA’s open innovation incubator, the International Space Apps Challenge, will take place April 22-24. The global main stage for this year’s event will…
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World's Largest Rocketry Competition Launches Student Careers in STEM
“Nearly 5,000 students across the country are gearing up for the Team America Rocketry Challenge (TARC), the world’s largest rocketry competition. 789 teams of secondary school students from all backgrounds are vying…
Annual 'Robots to Rocket City' Event at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center
“Twenty middle and high school teams across Alabama, Tennessee and Mississippi will demonstrate their student-built robots during the annual “Robots to Rocket City” at the Davidson Center for Space Exploration, located at…
Star Trek Replicator Challenge
Star Trek Replicator Challenge “Calling all Starfleet cadets! Star Trek and NASA want you to engineer the future of food in space. If you are a K-12 student in the United States,…
Student-Made Devices Compete in 2015 JPL Invention Challenge
“Middle- and high-school teams will demonstrate unique devices they have built to compete in the “Ball Fling Contest,” the annual Invention Challenge hosted by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, on Friday,…
United Launch Alliance Reveals CubeSat Launch Program
“ULA will offer universities the chance to compete for at least six CubeSat launch slots on two Atlas V missions, with a goal to eventually add university CubeSat slots to nearly every…
NASA Notice of Centennial Challenges 2016 Sample Return Robot Challenge
“Autonomous robot rovers will seek out samples and return them to a designated point in a set time period. Samples will be randomly placed throughout the roving area. They may be placed…
NASA Announces Winners for 3-D Printed Container Contest
“A workshop where tools floated around would be difficult to work in. So, NASA has chosen two winning designs from K-12 students for a 3-D printed container to help astronauts on the…
NASA Tournament Lab to Collaborate with NineSigma on Two Innovation Challenges
“Today, global innovation firm NineSigma announced two Innovation Challenges they will run for NASA Tournament Lab; the Space Suit Textile Testing Challenge in collaboration with the Advanced Space Suit Project team and…
NASA Challenge Seeks Ways to Use Mars' Natural Resources for Astronauts
“Living off the land is different when the land is 140 million miles away, so NASA is looking for innovative ideas to use in situ (in place) Martian resources to help establish…
NASA Selects Student Teams for 2016 High-Powered Rocket Launch Challenge
“NASA selected 55 student teams from across the nation to participate in the 2015-2016 NASA Student Launch challenge, to be held April 13-17 near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama….
ESA: Be The First to Catch Signals From Student-built AAUSAT5 CubeSat
“It is time to start listening to space. To celebrate the launch of the student-built AAUSAT5 CubeSat from the International Space Station into low Earth orbit, ESA’s Education office challenges the amateur…