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!

Moon Work. The 2010 NASA Moon Work engineering design challenge seeks to motivate college students by giving them first-hand experience with the process of developing new technologies. To participate in the contest, students will submit their original design for tools or instruments that can help astronauts live and work on the moon. Top-ranked students will be offered a chance to intern with a team from NASA's Exploration Technology Development Program.

Lunabotics Mining Competition. NASA Exploration Systems Mission Directorate Higher Education Project in partnership with the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program is proud to announce the inaugural Lunabotics Mining Competition May 25-28, 2010, Astronaut Hall of Fame, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The purpose of the Lunabotics Mining Competition is to engage and retain students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, or STEM, in a competitive environment that may result in innovative ideas and solutions, which could be applied to actual lunar excavation for NASA. Registration deadline is February 28, 2010.

University of Toronto Space Design Contest. The University of Toronto Space Design Contest is a competition in design and engineering for high school students. The goal of the contest is to give students an opportunity to creatively develop a design solution for a particular space-related problem determined annually. Each year teams of students are tasked to design and present a proposal to a panel of judges during the Design Conference in May at the St. George University of Toronto campus, in Toronto, Canada.