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Contests and Games, Near Space, Space participation

World View Experience opens emblem design contest

The World View Experience high altitude balloon travel venture has opened a contest to design their Voyager emblem:

Leave Your Mark On Spaceflight – Design Contest 

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 Enter and Submit Your Design

The Details:

Design the World View Voyager emblem; an iconic mark that will represent our group of spaceflight passengers, which we call “Voyagers,” for decades to come. Our community of Voyagers is comprised of people from all over the world that have reserved a flight with World View. Like any club, alumni organization, or society that has a logo, our Voyagers need one as well. Something separate from the World View logo itself, but a mark that they would be proud to wear on a flight uniform or display in a home.

This is your chance to leave a mark – on the industry that captivates our dreams.

The Prize: 

One designer will win $500 cash and an all expenses paid trip for themselves and one guest to our Inaugural Voyager Gala at the end of this year, where they’ll have the chance to witness the unveiling of part of the World View space capsule and rub elbows with NASA astronauts, celebrities, and leaders from industries the world over.

How to Enter:

Click on the “Enter and Submit Your Design” link above and submit your design through our online competition website. That’s also where you can find submission guidelines, official rules, and a link to our brand elements for use in your design.

The Deadline:

All designs must be submitted via the link above by 11:59 p.m. on June 23rd, 2014. Save the date! Bookmark this page. Set a reminder. Though we’d love to be flexible, our legal team won’t let us. So make sure your design hits our submission portal before time expires.

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Enter your design at Contest registration

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Contests and Games, Education, Space Science

Uwingu awards travel grants to grad students in planetary science

An announcement from Uwingu:

Uwingu Awards Graduate Student Grants
for Travel to Research Conferences

Funds to Further Planetary Exploration, Research and Education

Uwingu, a company helping people personally connect with space exploration and astronomy, today announced the award of travel grants to planetary science PhD students from both the United States and overseas to present their research at scientific conferences. Eleven winning students were selected from a field of dozens of applications Uwingu received in late April.

Uwingu, a for profit space company, consists of a growing team of space scientists, educators, NASA veterans, and prominent business people who are passionate about space exploration and education. Uwingu generates funds for grants like these via public engagement projects at its web site www.uwingu.com. There the public can participate in projects like Uwingu’s Mars Map Crater Naming Project that allows anyone to help name the approximately 590,000 unnamed, scientifically cataloged craters on Mars, starting at prices of $5 each. Uwingu aims to raise $10 million for The Uwingu Fund from its projects. The Uwingu Fund provides grants to further space exploration, space research, and space education and has to date awarded 20 grants of various sizes.

The selected students, both men and women, will all complete their PhDs in 2014. Their research topics range from Martian and lunar science, to astrobiology, to the study of planets around other stars. The awarded Uwingu travel grants will enable these students to report their results and further their professional advancement in the scientific community.

“We’re very proud to be able to support these meritorious students and the reporting of their research,” said Dr. Alan Stern, planetary scientist, founder, and CEO of Uwingu. Stern added, “We look forward to our growing opportunity to support space research, education, and exploration in the future.”

Contests and Games, Education, Space Arts

2014 NASA Langley art contest winners selected

The winners of the  2014 NASA Langley Art Contest have been announced: Visions of Future Seen in 2014 Student Art Contest Winners – NASA.

Student art contest winners
The grand prize winner was Tabb High School junior Rachel Pike.
Image Credit: NASA/Rachel Pike

Here is a gallery of the entries: 2014 NASA LaRC Art Contest – an album on Flickr.

Contests and Games, Space Arts, The Moon

“The Moon as Art” – pick the most artistic LRO image

The Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter project has opened the The Moon as Art poll. Visitors can choose which of five images created by the project are the most aesthetically pleasing.

To celebrate its 5th Anniversary, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission presents Moon As Art !The images in the collection were created using data gathered by LRO over the first 4.5 years of operations. These top 5 images are presented to you, the public, to decide which will be the cover of the Moon As Art collection. Voting is open from May 23 — June 6th. The winner will be announced with the release of the full collection on June 18, 2014, the 5th anniversary of LRO launch.

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Contests and Games, Education, Rockets

College teams compete in NASA Student Launch Challenge

Over twenty college teams competed in NASA’s 2014 Student Launch competition, which was held on Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats this past weekend. NASA Hosts Multiple Student Rocketry Challenge Events in May – NASA.

Here’s a Utah TV station news report on the event:  NASA competition brings aspiring rocket scientists to Utah – FOX13Now.com

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