{"id":16182,"date":"2018-06-11T12:00:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16182"},"modified":"2018-06-11T00:23:46","modified_gmt":"2018-06-11T04:23:46","slug":"base11-space-challenge-1m-prize-for-a-student-team-whose-liquid-fueled-rocket-reaches-100km","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16182","title":{"rendered":"Base11 Space Challenge: $1M prize for a student team whose liquid-fueled rocket reaches 100km"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The non-profit organization\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.base11.com\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.base11.com\/\">Base\u00a011<\/a>\u00a0led by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.base11.com\/about\/leadership\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.base11.com\/about\/leadership\/\">Landon Taylor<\/a>\u00a0has organized a rocketry competition for university\u00a0students that is offering a $1M cash prize:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/base11spacechallenge.org\/\" target=\"_d\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/base11spacechallenge.org\/\"><span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"Base11\" data-wsc-lang=\"en_US\">Base11<\/span>\u00a0Space Challenge<\/a>\u00a0is a $1 million+ prize for a student-led university team to design, build, and launch a liquid-propelled, single-stage rocket to an altitude of 100 kilometers (the\u00a0<span class=\"scayt-misspell-word\" data-scayt-word=\"Karman\" data-wsc-lang=\"en_US\">Karman<\/span>\u00a0Line) by December 30, 2021. Annual competitions and prizes mark milestone achievements in the process including design of the liquid-fuel rocket, static testing of the engine, and smaller pop-up innovation challenges to be announced. The biggest purse, which is fully funded, is the $1 million prize for launching the rocket to the edge of space.<\/p>\n<p>The mission behind the Base 11 Space Challenge is to dramatically increase the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) talent in the United States with greater representation and inclusion of women and minorities, while empowering the future workforce with the education and skill-training necessary for jobs in the aerospace and related industries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This video gives an overview of the program:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y3Zao485HIg?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>And a video of the debut event held for the program last week:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0ej--M3H_o0?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">====<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none;\" src=\"\/\/rcm-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/cm?o=1&amp;p=12&amp;l=ur1&amp;category=electronics&amp;f=ifr&amp;linkID=b9b6bdfedae91c076b1ee00a49031c97&amp;t=hobbyspace&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The non-profit organization\u00a0Base\u00a011\u00a0led by\u00a0Landon Taylor\u00a0has organized a rocketry competition for university\u00a0students that is offering a $1M cash prize: The Base11\u00a0Space Challenge\u00a0is a $1 million+ prize for a student-led university team to design, build, and launch a liquid-propelled, single-stage rocket to an altitude of 100 kilometers (the\u00a0Karman\u00a0Line) by December 30, 2021. Annual competitions and prizes mark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=16182\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Base11 Space Challenge: $1M prize for a student team whose liquid-fueled rocket reaches 100km<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-education","category-rockets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-4d0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15664,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=15664","url_meta":{"origin":16182,"position":0},"title":"$100k in prizes for student rocket contest sponsored by Mars Society &#038; FAR","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 3, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Friends of Amateur Rocketry\u00a0(FAR) and the Mars Society are sponsoring a contest for liquid-fueled bi-propellant powered rockets built by college student teams: FAR\/Mars Society Launch Contest Student Rocketry Teams Compete for FAR-MARS Prize MOJAVE, CA \u2013 Student-built rockets will streak into the stratosphere in Spring, 2018 as college and university\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Contests and Games&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Contests and Games","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=16"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2375,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2375","url_meta":{"origin":16182,"position":1},"title":"Vanderbilt team takes top prize in NASA&#8217;s Student Launch Challenge","author":"TopSpacer","date":"May 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The results of this year's\u00a0 Student Launch Projects competition are in: Vanderbilt Takes Top Prize in NASA Student Launch Challenge HUNTSVILLE, Ala. -- The Aerospace Club of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., took first prize in the 2013 annual NASA Student Launch Projects challenge, in which student teams design, build\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Education&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Education","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?cat=22"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":14189,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14189","url_meta":{"origin":16182,"position":2},"title":"2017 NASA Student Launch competition results","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 11, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Here is a report on the\u00a0NASA Student Launch\u00a0competition, which includes middle school through college level teams, which took place last week. 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