![]() ![]() A single enthusiastic teacher can make a huge difference. A small fraction of students become deeply involved in these projects. ![]() 1–4 The contest is administered by a single, very part time individual, a public school teacher, at a total cost of $3-6 per contestant. This allows us to meet many of the best contestants and has led to a number of collaborations resulting in published technical papers. All winners are invited to visit NASA Ames in June. 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. In 2007, the Ames center director, Pete Worden, was a judge. All entries are judged on a single day by a panel of NASA and contractor scientists and engineers. Extensive reference materials are supplied on the web. Contestants work at home and send their entries to NASA Ames each March. 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). 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. ![]() Abstract Since 1994, the NASA Ames Research Center has hosted an annual space settlement design contest for 6-12th grade students. ![]()
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