The NASA Space Settlement Contest is an annual design competition for 6-12th grade students sponsored by the NASA Ames Research Center and the NSS (National Space Society). This contest is open to students ages eleven through eighteen from anywhere in the world. Individuals compete as individuals or part of a team in two categories, in teams of up to six students, and in teams of seven or more students.
The goal of this contest is to have students learn about science and teamwork while working on projects to develop space settlement designs. Students submit a report about their designs to NASA Ames, and the reports are judged by aerospace professionals. Awards are given for artistic and literary merit as well.
This time there were 592 submissions from 1,536 students taught by 168 teachers. The contest is spreading worldwie and entries were newly received from Bahrain, Qatar, Middle East and Bangladesh; though there was only one winner from middle east; Astraeus Space Settlement written by R.Ashwin (Indian School, Bahrain) Entries were submitted from 20 countries. The grand prize winners were Robert G., Jonathan S., Reagan F., Zared S., Jackie L., Gabriel T., under the instruction of Jeffrey R. of Cypress Bay High School in Weston, Florida for creating Maui.
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“If we did not have such a thing as an airplane today, we would probably create something the size of NASA to make one.”
—H. Ross Perot (b. 1930)
“And Space with gaunt grey eyes and her brother Time
Wheeling and whispering come,”
—James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)
“... if the Settlement seeks its expression through social activity, it must learn the difference between mere social unrest and spiritual impulse.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
“By his mere quiet power, on the minds of the now contestants, He could have either saved or destroyed the Union without a human contest. Yet the contest began. And having begun He could give the final victory to either side any day. Yet the contest proceeds.”
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865)