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Contests

NSS-sponsored or supported contests  •  Other space-related contests
Space Ambassadors Program
SpaceShipTwo
The National Space Society is teaming up with Virgin Galactic to identify Space Ambassadors around the world. As part of their duties, Space Ambassadors will communicate the value of space research and exploration to their local communities, and one special Space Ambassador will be selected to fly on a Virgin Galactic space flight!

NSS Space Settlement Calendar Art Contest
Space Settlement Calendar

NASA/NSS Space Settlement Student Design Contest
Torus colony Vademecum
NASA Ames Research Center in conjunction with the National Space Society sponsors an annual space settlement design contest for 6-12th grade students.

International Space Settlement Design Competition
Torus colony
This annual contest puts high school students in the shoes of aerospace industry engineers designing a city in space that will house over 10,000 people. Student engineers demonstrate creativity, technical competence, management skills, environmental knowledge, space, teamwork, and presentation techniques to conquer the problems inherent in siting and designing a Space Settlement (Space Colony).

NSS Scholarship to the International Space University
ISU
A scholarship to the International Space University, offered by the National Space Society, SEDS, and the Space Generation Foundation, worth $10,000. Application deadline is December 31 of each year, for study in the following year.

Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Award
Conrad Foundation
The Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards combine education, innovation and entrepreneurship by challenging high school students to design products using science and technology. The competition includes platforms in personal spaceflight, lunar exploration, and renewable energy. Teams will compete for over $120,000 of prize money as well as the opportunities to connect with leading scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs. The awards create a long term community for students and teachers and also provide resources and opportunities to develop and incubate commercial products.

NSS Banner Design Contest Gallery
National Space Society
This contest is over but you can see the gallery of submitted designs.

Other space-related contests

Google Lunar X Prize. The total purse of the Google Lunar X PRIZE is $30 million (USD). It ges to a team who successfully lands a privately funded craft on the lunar surface which survives long enough to roam the lunar surface for 500 meters and send a defined data package (“Mooncast”) back to Earth. See 8-minute video — It's cool!

Move an Asteroid 2009. International student and young professional technical paper competition. The goal of this competition is to develop innovative and credible planetary defense solutions. Contestants are to describe in technical detail a concept to move an asteroid or comet that is at least 140 meters in diameter. Submission deadline July 26, 2009.

See also: NSS Awards

 

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