Competition Outline
The International Space Settlement Design Competition is split into two rounds, the Qualifying Round and the International Finals. While entrants are usually teams with a high school affiliation, independent teams are allowed provided they are also in the high school age group. Teams have come from Pakistan, India, Australia, Austria, the United Kingdom, Uruguay, Romania, and England, as well as the United States, with one notable coalition team in the competition history's past including members from Argentina, Austria, Canada, the Netherlands, Poland, the Ukraine, and the United States.
The competition uses an organization called the Foundation Society to create a futuristic setting for the competition. Often, the setting is around forty years in the future, and competitors must use plausible extensions of current technology in their proposals (i.e. no "cold fusion" or space elevators).
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