NASA’s 2018-19 Scientist for a Day Essay Contest.

NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest NASA is transfering administration of this contest to the National Space Society. Go to the National Space Society (NSS) contest site for rules, registration, and submission information. Author: Al GlobusAl Globus.

Student Essay Contest I Wanted to be an Astronaut2015 AWM Essay Contest: Undergraduate Level Honorable MentionBy: Mackenzie Carlson Dartmouth College (Hanover, New Hampshire)“I wanted to be an astronaut,” Robyn Millan, associate professor of physics at Dartmouth College, says from her office in Wilder, just steps away from.

The purpose of the essay contest is to stimulate creative thinking that explores how the search for extraterrestrial intelligence will affect humanity’s future. They invite essays from undergraduate students between the ages of 18 to 30. To be eligible, each applicant must be enrolled in a degree program at a qualified educational institution.

NASA's Mars 2020 Rover Closer to Getting Its Name. 155 students from across the U.S. have been chosen as semifinalists in NASA's essay contest to name the Mars 2020 rover, and see it launch from Cape Canaveral this July.

NASA 50th Anniversary Essay Competition. As NASA celebrates 50 years of scientific and technological excellence that have powered us into the 21st century, it reflects on signature accomplishments that are enduring icons of human achievement.

The prompt for the NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory essay contest was to justify the spacecraft Cassini's target: Saturn's rings and moons, Jupiter, or Rhea and Tethys.

NASA. NASA is inviting students in grades 5-12 and their classrooms to participate in the annual Cassini Scientist for a Day Essay Contest. To participate, students choose one of three images taken by the Cassini spacecraft at Saturn. Then students write an essay to explain why their chosen image makes the best science target.

This annual essay contest is organized in an effort to harness the energy, creativity and initiative of the world's youth in promoting a culture of peace and sustainable development. It also aims to inspire society to learn from the young minds and to think about how each of us can make a difference in the world.

The Administration released its FY 2016 budget proposal yesterday. The NASA budget proposal (PDF) gives some insight into NASA's plans, including the area of space prizes. The Space Technology portion of the document describes existing challenges like the Sample Return Robot Challenge, the Mars Ascent Vehicle Challenge, and the Cube Quest Challenge to demonstrate cubesat technologies beyond.

In 2016, the ICB evaluated six technology nominations for Invention of the Year and seven software nominations for Software of the Year. These technologies demonstrated the exceptional innovation and technical advancements achieved by the NASA team.

Students create their own experiments using Computer-Aided Design (CAD). Experiment proposals, which each consist of a single CAD drawing and short entry form, are e-mailed to NASA. The test cells are then manufactured by PSU using the drawings and a computer-controlled laser cutter. The design challenge is for students in grades 8-12, who may.

Sara Imari Walker is an American theoretical physicist and astrobiologist with research interests in the origins of life, astrobiology, physics of life, emergence, complex and dynamical systems, and artificial life. Walker is currently Deputy Director of the Beyond Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University, Associate Director of the ASU-SFI Center for Biosocial.