Since 1994, the NASA Ames Research Center has hosted an annual space settlement design contest for 6-12th grade students. Thousands of students and hundreds of teachers from around the world have involved themselves in space settlement, including environmental and life support systems, some devoting months of intense effort. Prize winners now find themselves at Harvard, Stanford, MIT and other top universities, and at least one flew a zero-gravity experiment for the European Space Agency (ESA).Contestants work at home and send their entries to NASA Ames each March. Extensive reference materials are supplied on the web. All entries are judged on a single day by a panel of NASA and contractor scientists and engineers. In 2007, the Ames center director, Pete Worden, was a judge. Many categories are created to generate a large number of winners and every attempt is made to reward entries that show serious effort with some sort of prize. All winners are invited to visit NASA Ames in June. This allows us to meet many of the best contestants and has led to a number of collaborations resulting in published technical papers.1-4 The contest is administered by a single, very part time public school teacher at a total cost of $3-6 per contestant.Key lessons-learned include:


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    Title :

    Fifteen Years of NASA Student Space Settlement Design Contests: Some Lessons


    Additional title:

    Sae Technical Papers


    Contributors:
    Globus, Al (author) / Yager, Bryan (author) / Teal, Hami (author) / Globus, Ruth (author) / Sezen, Tugrul (author) / Vercoutere, Wenonah (author)

    Conference:

    International Conference On Environmental Systems ; 2008



    Publication date :

    2008-06-29




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English




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