NASA TechRise Student Challenge
Students in sixth to 12th grades attending a U.S. public, private, or charter school – including those in U.S. territories – are challenged to team up with their schoolmates to design an experiment under the guidance of an educator. Teams can submit ideas for experiments to fly on a suborbital flight platform. Competition winners receive $1,500 to build their payloads and an assigned spot on a NASA-sponsored commercial flight test. No experience is necessary to join the NASA TechRise Challenge!
challenge status
Submissions closed
Flight Test Platform
High-altitude balloon
Winners Announcement
January 21, 2025
Grade Levels
6-12
Volunteer to Judge Proposals
Thanks to all the student teams who submitted their science and technology experiment ideas to the fourth NASA TechRise Student Challenge.
TechRise seeks volunteers with experience in engineering, space, and/or atmospheric research to sign up to judge proposals. Volunteer judges must be 18 years or older and willing to spend about five hours to review proposals approximately Nov. 4-19, 2024.
More about TechRise 2024-2025
Administered by Future Engineers, the challenge offers participants hands-on insight into the payload design and suborbital flight test process, with the goal of inspiring a deeper understanding of space exploration, Earth observation, coding, electronics, and the value of test data. A total of 60 winning teams will be selected to build their proposed experiment. Each winning team will receive $1,500 to build their experiment, a flight box in which to build it, and an assigned spot to test their experiment on a NASA-sponsored high-altitude balloon flight. Winning teams will also receive technical support from Future Engineers advisors, who will help students learn the skills needed to turn their experiment idea into reality.
See TechRise in Action!
(Left) World View high-altitude balloon. Credits: NASA (Right) TechRise mentor Claire Bengtson prepares a payload for flight. Credits: Future Engineers
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