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Date 8 / 16 / 23
NASA Challenges Students to Fly Earth and Space Experiments NASA is calling on middle and high school students across the country to submit experiment ideas for a high-altitude balloon or rocket-powered lander test flight in the third TechRise Student Challenge.
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Date 4 / 25 / 23
NASA Announces Student Winners of Power to Explore Challenge NASA selected three winners out of nine finalists in the second annual Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for elementary through high school students featuring the power of radioisotopes for space exploration.
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Date 4 / 12 / 23
NASA Names Finalists of the Power to Explore Challenge NASA selected 9 finalists out of the 45 semi-finalists student essays in the Power to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes.
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Date 4 / 4 / 23
We Veterans Pin Design Challenge Announces Competition Winners The “We Veterans Pin Design” challenge, a joint effort of the Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP) and Future Engineers, today announced the 2023 challenge winners.
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Date 1 / 12 / 23
NASA Awards Students Flight Opportunity in TechRise Challenge NASA selected 60 winning teams for the second TechRise Student Challenge, a nationwide contest designed to engage students in technology, science, and space exploration.
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Date 10 / 26 / 22
The Army Educational Outreach Program and Future Engineers Announce Second National 3D Pin Design Challenge to Celebrate Veterans The “We Veterans Pin Design” challenge is back for its second year, inviting 4-12th grade students to put their 3D design skills to the test to show their appreciation for U.S. veterans.
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Date 10 / 12 / 22
NASA Launches Power to Explore Challenge for K-12 Students NASA has officially launched its second Power to Explore Student Challenge, calling on K-12 students in the U.S. to learn about Radioisotope Power Systems (RPS), and then design a new RPS-powered space mission that would energize their space exploration dreams.
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Date 08 / 10 / 22
NASA Seeks Student Experiments to Soar in Second TechRise Challenge NASA is calling on middle and high school students to join the second NASA TechRise Student Challenge, which invites student teams to develop, build, and launch science and technology experiments on high-altitude balloons.
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Date 05 / 24 / 22
NASA Names Winners of the Power to Explore Challenge NASA has selected 45 student essays as winners of thePower to Explore Challenge, a national competition for K-12 students featuring the enabling power of radioisotopes...
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Date 03 / 29 / 22
NASA Names Winners of Lunabotics Junior Contest Two students were chosen by NASA as winners of the Lunabotics Junior Contest, a national competition for students K-12 featuring the space agency’s Artemis theme...
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Date 03 / 15 / 22
Lunabotics Jr. Semifinalists Announced 20 Students Selected in Semifinal Round of the Lunabotics Junior Contest...
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Date 01 / 21 / 22
NASA Techrise winners announced NASA selected 57 winning teams in an inaugural nationwide challenge designed to attract, engage, and prepare future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professionals.
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Date 10 / 20 / 21
NASA Lunabotics Junior Challenges Students to Design Moon-Digging Robots NASA seeks young engineers to help design a new robot for an excavation mission on the Moon.
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Date 09 / 08 / 21
The Army Educational Outreach Program Teams up with Future Engineers to Launch a 3D Pin Design Challenge Army Educational Outreach Program (AEOP), is funding a challenge in partnership with Future Engineers, an organization that administers free, online STEM challenges for students.
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Date 08 / 18 / 21
The NASA TechRise Student Challenge is now accepting entries! NASA and Future Engineers, the challenge administrator,are calling all sixth through 12th-grade educators and students to submit experiments for possible suborbital flights as a way of gaining firsthand experience with the design and testing process used by NASA researchers!
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Date 05 / 19 / 21
Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest Winners Announced NASA has named three students the winners of the Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest for their creative visions of a pioneering journey to the Moon. Nearly 14,000 students entered the contest, each competing for the grand prize: a trip to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where they ...
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Name the Mars Rover
Date 08 / 28 / 19
STUDENTS INVITED TO NAME MARS 2020 ROVER Red rover, red rover, send a name for Mars 2020 right over!

NASA, Future Engineers, and Battelle Education are recruiting help from students nationwide to find a name for the next Mars rover mission. Starting today K-12 students in U.S. public, private, and home schools are encouraged to enter the Mars 2020 "Name the Rover" essay contest.
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Name the Mars Rover
Date 06 / 25 / 19
Future Engineers Selected by NASA for Mars 2020 "Name the Rover" Contest NASA has selected two partners, Future Engineers and Battelle Education, to run a nationwide contest giving K-12 students in U.S. schools a chance to make history by naming the Mars 2020 Rover. An application to become a judge of the contest also is now available online.
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two for the crew winners
Date 03 / 14 / 18
Winners Selected in the ASME Foundation and NASA’s “Two for the Crew” Space Design Challenge Future Engineers is proud to share the winners of the "Two for the Crew" Challenge, the sixth in a series of design competitions tasking K-12 students to invent useful items for astronauts living in space.
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two for the crew
Date 09 / 21 / 17
Future Engineers Launches Two for the Crew Challenge Future Engineers Launches Two for the Crew Challenge, a National 3D Design Challenge that tasks students to create a model intended to be 3D printed by astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS).
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Future Engineers Grant
Date 06 / 27 / 17
Future Engineers Receives US Department of Education Grant Future Engineers is proud to announce that they are the recipients of a two-year award from the US Department of Education’s Small Business Innovation Research (ED/IES SBIR) program.
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Mars Winenrs
Date 03 / 28 / 17
Students Win National Design Competition for Future Missions to Mars The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Foundation and NASA invited K-12 students to engineer the future of 3-D printing in space.
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