SEDS Projects

Here at SEDS-USA, we’re proud of the interdisciplinary projects that we offer students throughout the course of the year. The projects below allow students to think critically, work together, and create something out of this world!

Don’t see a project you like but want to get involved in space? 

SEDS is proud to partner with Club for the Future to bring our chapters postcards they can send to space. This is a great activity for any chapter meeting, to bring more members, or to disperse within the community.

Get your Club for the Future SEDS postcards here!

SSPI Competition

Earth Observation and Freedom 2024 Competition

Satellite-based earth observation (EO) is playing a critical role in monitoring and responding to the efforts from governments exercising their will across external territories without regard to international law. Within recent political turmoil, EO has been used by various nations to safeguard those nations under external threats.

Your team will research the available EO satellite resources and technologies and design a satellite network that can provide 24×7 monitoring, issue alerts to a range of potential dangers. No experience is necessary and all teams will be assigned a mentor to help them through each phase of the project.

Upcoming Milestones

  • Progress Summary

    Complete

  • Project Plan

    Complete

  • Progress Summary

    • March 29th
    • April 14th
    • April 28th
    • May 26th

  • Report Due

    May 31st, 2024

  • Judging Completion

    August 16th, 2024

  • Presentation of Awards

    October TBD

Virtual Graduate School Application Bootcamp

Interested in graduate school? Our summer bootcamp is here to guide you through all the necessary steps to research, apply, and get the most of your graduate degree. Open to all majors and areas of interest. 

The weekly webinars/Q&A sessions and assignments will help you tackle selecting a graduate school, GRE prep, professional development to improve your application, applying for financial assistance, essay and resume-writing, and more. You will also network with current graduate students and young professionals in the field through video chat and our slack chennel. Active participation is necessary to ensure all students registered are supported, and we will cap participation in this program at 100 students.

  • Bootcamp Runs

    June 17th, 2024 - Aug. 11th 2024

Congratulations to our SpaceVision 23 art competition winner, Samantha Bechtel from the Portland State Aerospace Society Chapter.

Congratulations to our SpaceVision 23 art competition winner, Samantha Bechtel from the Portland State Aerospace Society Chapter. With a design using the medium of pen on paper.

The SpaceVision Research Symposium lets you showcase your chapter’s (or your own) research to the SEDS community. It’s a great way to highlight SEDS accomplishments and get a deeper understanding of cutting-edge research.

Two other reasons to sign up:

  1. Going to a conference to present your research is a great way to get your school to help fund the conference trip.
  2. The top three projects will get $$$.

2023 Winners:

1st Place: Florida State University

2nd Place: UC San Diego

3rd Place: Case Western Reserve University

Business Pitch Competition

Do you have an idea that will change the space industry? Tell us about it in a business pitch!

2023 Winners:

1st Place: University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez

2nd Place: Case Western Reserve University

3rd Place: Georgetown University

Runkle Regional Rocketry Competiton 

Rockets! rockets! Andddd more rockets! Where Rocketry teams go head to head for a spot at the next Spaceport America Cup

On

Stand-By

Have Questions? Contact the SEDS Project Head below:

Jay Kamdar - Director of Projects

Project Manager: Jay Kamdar

Have a project idea or a project question? We would love to hear it or help you! Just fill out the form below.