Robots
Boston University Design Competition
http://www.bu.edu/eng/design/
“Each team will design and build a vehicle that will, under its own power, perform a series of tasks while either descending or ascending a sloped ramp.”
FIRST Robotics Competition
http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/
Teams build and compete with a robot of their own design in the year’s competition challenge.
Rockets
Sounding Rocket Competition
http://www.uwgb.edu/wsgc/students/sr09-ao.asp
“This competition is an opportunity for students to design and construct rockets to be launched at a competition in the spring of 2009 from Bong Recreational Area.”
Space Settlements
International Space Settlement Design Competition
http://spaceset.org
“This contest puts high school students in the shoes of aerospace industry engineers designing a city in space that will be a home for over 10,000 people. Student engineers demonstrate creativity, technical competence, management skills, environmental knowledge, space, teamwork, and presentation techniques to conquer the problems inherent in siting and designing a Space Settlement (aka Space Colony).”
NASA / NSS Space Settlement Contest
http://www.nss.org/settlement/nasa/Contest/index.html
“Students develop space settlement designs and related materials.”
Other Space Technologies
Astronaut Glove
http://www.spaceflightamerica.org
“The 2009 Astronaut Glove Challenge is designed to promote the development of glove joint technology, resulting in a highly dexterous and flexible glove that can be used by astronauts over long periods of time for space or planetary surface excursions.”
Power Beaming and Tether
http://www.spaceward.org/elevator2010
With the idea of designing a space elevator that can transport objects from earth up to space make an object that can rise up using a tether and power beaming.
Lunar Oxygen Production or MoonROx
http://moonrox.csewi.org
“The MoonROx Challenge is designed to promote the development of technologies and processes to extract breathable oxygen from lunar regolith on the scale of a pilot plant.”
Multiple Fields
The Pete Conrad Spirit of Innovation Awards
http://www.conradawards.org/competition
“Create an entrepreneurial enterprise for lunar exploration.” OR “Create an innovative product for use in personal space flight.” OR “Create a clean carbon-free way of using renewable energy to change everyday life.”
