Are you ready for this year’s NASA TechRise Student Challenge? This competition provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to gain critical skills in engineering, computing, electronics, and more that will be required for America’s technical workforce.

If you are in sixth to 12th-grade at a U.S. public, private or charter school – including those in U.S. territories – your challenge is to team up with your schoolmates and develop a science or technology experiment idea for one of the following NASA TechRise flight vehicles:

  • Suborbital-Spaceship with approximately 3 minutes of microgravity.
  • High-Altitude Balloon with approximately 4 to 8 hours of flight time at 70,000 to 95,000 feet and exposure to Earth’s atmosphere, high-altitude radiation, and perspective views of our planet.

A total of 60 winning teams will be selected to build their proposed experiment. Each winning team will be awarded:

  • $1,500 to build their experiment
  • A starter kit, including a flight box in which to build their experiment
  • An assigned spot to test their experiment on a NASA-sponsored flight
  • Technical support during the experiment build phase from Future Engineers advisors, who will help students learn the skills they need to turn their experiment idea into reality

Note that no experience is necessary to participate in the NASA TechRise Challenge! Visit the NASA TechRise Student Challenge website for more information.