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In 2025, NASA presents the Human Exploration Rover Challenge and the Drop Tower Challenge – Paddle Wheel
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Forwarded from NASA:
Audience: Formal and informal educators of grades 6-12
Handbook Release: Aug. 1
Contact: HERC@mail.nasa.gov
NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) is an engineering design competition where students design, build, and test a rover to traverse challenging terrains while completing scientific tasks along the way. As an Artemis Student Challenge, HERC draws inspiration from both the Apollo and Artemis missions, emphasizing designing, constructing, and testing technologies.
The 2025 HERC activity year will be open to proposal submissions from teams of students in grades 6-12. The 2025 HERC Handbook and Request for Proposals will be released on August 1. Email the HERC Implementation Team at HERC@mail.nasa.gov for more information about how your students can be a part of this exciting STEM challenge.
Audience: Teams of students in grades 8-12
Proposal Deadline: Oct. 31
Contact: Ed-DropTower@lists.nasa.gov
Student teams are invited to design and build paddle wheels that will turn in water because of the wetting properties of their surfaces when they are exposed to microgravity. Paddle wheels from selected teams will be tested in the 2.2 Second Drop Tower at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Ohio. Top performing teams will have the opportunity to present their results in a student poster session at the 2025 meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research.
Click here for competition details and eligibility requirements.
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