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• Mars Rescue Mission Challenge - Dr. Dobb's Journal and Frank Buß
• G4TV.com's Space Camp Contest - G4techTV - Sept.27.04
• Bluetopia vs. Redtopia - Alan Boyle/Cosmic Log - Sept.21.04 - sci-fi story contest
• FSRI and NASA Sponsor Lunar Exploration Design Competition - FSRI - Sept.13.04
  • ISRU Design Competition Guidelines.pdf
• Lance's Lab Contest for the World Space Week on Oct.4-10, 2004.
• World Space Week 2003 Educational Awards - World Space Week - Apr.14.04
• North Dakota State triumphs in college division of NASA's 11th Annual 'Great Moonbuggy Race' Saturday - Marshall Center Space - Apr.3.03.
• Poster Contest for 7th Annual Mars Society Conference - Mars Society - Mar.28.04
• NASA's New Vision Inspires Students In Great Moonbuggy Race - NASA - Feb.19.04
• Crack the Secret Mars Code! - The Planetary Society's Red Rover Goes to Mars Project
• Space in our lives competition ESA - Jan.5.04
  • Contest "Space in Our Lives" - ages 13-15, Deadline April 30,04 (pdf, 161KB)
• International Art Competition for Children - 6-10 years old - monthly (pdf, 109KB)
  • Contests - Norwegian SpaceCenter
    
• Contest - Science Fiction Short Story - ages 16-19, Deadline April 15.04 (pdf, 121KB)
• Moon Race on Earth will Challenege Students in NASA's Great Moonbuggy Competition - SpaceRef - Dec.11.03
• First Coloring Contest Announcement - Beyond Earth Enterprises - Nov.03 - kids K-6 get a chance to send their space art coloring entry on a rocket flight. Deadline is now March.1.04.

2003

• Mars Watch 2003 International Art Contest - Planetary Society - Deadline November 14, 2003
• Mars Society Launches 'Why Should We Go There' Contest - Martian Soil
• ESA announces winners of Aurora student design competition - ESA Portal - Sept.12.03
• NASA Asks Students to Help Design Orbital Space Colony - NASA - Sept.4.03
• World Space Week is sponsoring the Lance [Bass] Competition in which students submit essays on how to develop a Lance Lab where the singer could live and work in space.
• Aurora student design competition finalists - ESA - Aug.12.03
• NASA Selects Winning Student Design For Titan Aerial Vehicle - NASA - Aug.6.03
• Boeing-Sponsored Clear Creek Team Wins International Mars Competition - SpaceRef - July.18.03
• DHS aerospace team plans mission - Durango Herald (Colorado) - July.10.03
• NASA To Announce Mars Robotic Rover Names on Sunday - SpaceRef - June.5.03
• Challenge to European designers: use space to make space - ESA - Apr.22.03
• NASA Contest Explores Designs for Future Colonies in Space - SpaceRef - Apr.29.03
• Fargo college team sees how far its moon buggy can go - Huntsville Times - Apr.13.03
• JSC Hosts Fifth Annual Mars Settlement Design Competition - JSC PR/SpaceRef - Feb.20.03
• Calling all students and universities - ESA - Feb.18.03 - space projects design competition sponsored by the ESA
• Aviation Week's TOP 100 Stars of Aerospace - Vote Now
• Mars Society Announces Kepler Design Contest- The Mars Society - Jan.11.03
• Homestretch For NASA & LEGO "Name the Rovers Contest" - NASA - Jan.14.03
• Take the Space Quiz at Tech Central Station

2002

• Edge of Space Sweepstakes contest to fly on a MIG 25 sponsored by the travel agency Travelers Advantage and Space Adventures
  • Final Countdown Begins for the Travelers Advantage Edge of Space Sweepstakes - Travelers Advantage PR/ SpaceRef - Dec.18.02
• BBCi - Space - Win a trip to see a space launch

• StarNav Contest - identify star clusters for prizes using images relayed from a star finder on a space shuttle. The contest is supported by the Texas A&M University's Commercial Space Center for Engineering.

  • Students to identify stars in shuttle contest - SpaceRef - Nov.26.02
• Make a name for yourself on Mars - CNN.com - Nov.12.02
• NASA Selects LEGO Company to Run Mars Rover Naming Contest - NASA - Nov.4.02
• What's in a Name: For Kids It's a Place in History - NASA Invites Students to Take Active Part in Upcoming Mars Mission With 'Name The Rovers' Contest - Lego PR/Yahoo - Nov.4.02
• Students to Join NASA's Mars Exploration Rover - 2003 Team - Planetary Society - Oct.15.02
• Essay contest offers a Martian adventure - HoustonChronicle - Oct.15.02
• First Words - enter your choice for what the first person to walk on Mars should say as his or her foot hits the Mars dust. Contest runs between October 4th to midnight October 11th. The contest is sponsored by the New Mars on line magazine.
• Team America Rocketry Challenge - "national model rocket competition for U.S. high school and junior high school students. We challenge you to design, build, and fly a multi-stage model rocket carrying two raw eggs and an electronic altimeter to exactly 1500 feet, returning both eggs intact. The top five teams will share in a total prize pool of approximately $50,000 in savings bonds, and approximately $9,000 in cash awards will be divided among the sponsoring teachers' departments."
  • Students Can Soar To New Heights In NASA's Student Rocket Contest - NASA - Sept.20.02
• The Space Lottery has opened in which you enter a drawing for a trip on a sub-orbital rocket vehicle.
• Power of 5 Sweepstakes - the new Showtime Sci-Fi series Odyssey 5 starting June 21, 2002 is sponsoring the Power of 5 contest with a grand prize of a trip for the winner and 4 guests to a shuttle launch at the Kennedy Space Center, hotel, passes to theme parks and more.
• From Cottonbelt Festival to children's book, winning entries to NASA comet mission contest are submitted by four U.S. schools - Cornell News - May.21.02
• The SOHO-500 Comet Contest - predict when the 500th comet discovered by the SOHO sun observatory will occur.
  • SOHO Raises the Ante with Discovery of 500th Comet - SOHO PR - Aug.14.02
  • SOHO-500 Prediction Contest Entries
  • More about SOHO Comet hunting in the Astronomy section.
• Cornell team wins Great Moonbuggy Race - Huntsville Times - Apr.14.02
• 3DStation Holds 3D Contest - "Objective Moon: the first tourist complex on the moon!" - Entries due by March 31, 2002
• Young Astronomer Award Deadline Nears - Astronomy.com - January.02
  • National Young Astronomer Award.

   

2001

• SIRTF: Name This Satellite - Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2001 September 19
• NASA Wants You to Name th SIRTF Observatory! - Space.com - Sept.6.01 * SIRTF NAME Contest Home Page
• LEGO MINDSTORMS Ultimate Builders Competition - German contest challenges builders of Lego robots for the chance of sending their bots to the ISS.
• Moon Society: Moon Flag Contest - design a flag for the Moon colony
• Popular Mechanics: Vote for Your Favorite Space Station Name - vote on suggested names obtained from previous contest.
• World SpaceWeek 2001 - Global high school web design contest.
• Student's Winning Design Soars to New Heights - Patch unveiled for Canada's next mission to space - Spaceref - Jan.15.01

Previous Contests

Planetary Society

• Mars Art Contest - previous Red Rover competition for the best Mars art. Included three separate categories for students and adults. Deadline passed.
  • The Planetary Society Announces International Space Art Contest Winners: Public Must Now Award the Grand Prize - Planetary Society - Sept.4.01

• Mars microphone naming contest. The Mars Polar Lander, was due to land on the south pole of Mars in December 1999 but unfortunately did not succeed. It carried a microphone developed by the Planetary Society that would have provided the first true audio signals from another planet.

  The microphone project logo included a green penguin and the Society wanted someone to think up a great name for their mascot. Similarly, there was also an essay contest on the microphone.

• Wishbone, the K-9 character of over 40 childrens books, goes into space in his latest adventure. To celebrate this event, Wishbone and the Planetary Society sponsored a contest for children 9-12 to win a trip to space camp. Deadline passed.
  
  
• Student NanoExperiment Challenge - competition to design an experiment for the Mars 2001 Surveyor Lander that will launch in April 10, 2001. The challenge is to find a doable and worthwhile experiment that will fit in the thimble sized container. Enty deadline has Passed.

• Help Name the Craters on Eros! - the NEAR spacecraft orbited the asteroid Eros and returned the first detailed pictures of the surface. It eventually even landed on the asteroid.This contest was to propose names for the craters.

Mars Society

• Hakluyt Contest 2000 - this competition to write the best letter or group of letters to world political leaders making the case for initiating a human-to-Mars program.

NASA

• SIRTF NAME Contest - the Space InfraRed Telescope Facility is the last element of NASA's "Great Observatory" (Hubble was the first). It needs a better name than the SIRTF acronym so they are sponsoring this contest. Open to everyone, the deadline has passed. The winner will be flown to Cape Kennedy to see the launch of the observatory in July 2002.
  
  
  • SIRTF: Name This Satellite - Astronomy Picture of the Day - 2001 September 19
  • NASA Wants You to Name th SIRTF Observatory! - Space.com - Sept.6.01
    
    
• Design the Genesis Mission Patch - The NASA Genesis Mission will collect particles from the solar wind and return them to earth. The program is holding a public competition to design a mission patch. Deadline has Passed.
• Students to identify stars in shuttle contest - SpaceRef - Nov.26.02

ESA

• ESA XMM - Stargazing Competition - European students 16-18 could participate in a contest to use the ESA X-Ray Multi-mirror observatory that will be launched soon.
• ESA Space Design Competition - design with or for space

Other

• Kids in Space Contest - Space Frontier Foundation and Applied Space Resources are sponsoring these student contest:

  Space Art Contest (ages 6-9) - "My home in space"
  Space Essay Contest (ages 10-13) - "My job in space"
  Space Hotel Design Contest (individuals or teams ages 14-17)
  

• Popular Mechanics: Name the Space Station (expired July.31.01)
• Envisat Art Contest - The ESA Envisat is inviting young people in ESA member states to ".. draw, paint or make a collage of a picture of a flag to represent the Earth. Your drawing will be placed underneath the Envisat logo in landscape format." Deadline was March 31, 2001.
• Artemis launch: Win a Rucksack with Artemis!! - "ESA is celebrating the imminent launch of Artemis, its innovative new telecommunications satellite, by giving away hundreds of great rucksacks. The Artemis competition is open to all young people aged between 10 and 16 who live in one of ESA's 15 Member States. Each weekday from now until launch day, one winner will be selected at random from all the correct answers received." - Expired July.10.01 - Envisat launch - Win a chance to send your drawing into space! - ESA Portal - Oct.26.00
• Chandra X-ray Observatory: AXAF Naming Contest
• Prizes regarding space - SpaceProjets.com