NASA TechRise Student Challenge 2025 for U.S. Schools – YOA

Deadline: November 3, 2025

Are you prepared for this yr’s NASA TechRise Student Challenge? This competitors supplies a arms-on OPPORTUNITY for individuals to realize vital expertise in engineering, computing, electronics, and extra that can be required for America’s technical workforce.

If you’re in sixth to twelfth-grade at a U.S. public, non-public, or constitution faculty – together with these in U.S. territories – your problem is to crew up along with your schoolmates and develop a science or know-how experiment thought for one of many following NASA TechRise flight automobiles:

• Suborbital-Spaceship with roughly 3 minutes of microgravity.
• High-Altitude Balloon with roughly 4 to eight hours of flight time at 70,000 to 95,000 toes and publicity to Earth’s ambiance, excessive-altitude radiation, and perspective views of our planet.

Prizes

A complete of 60 profitable groups can be chosen to construct their proposed experiment. Each profitable crew can be awarded:

• $1,500 to construct their experiment
• A starter equipment, together with a flight field wherein to construct their experiment
• An assigned spot to check their experiment on a NASA-sponsored flight
• Technical help through the experiment construct section from Future Engineers advisors, who will assist college students study the abilities they should flip their experiment thought into actuality

Eligibility

• Open to SCHOOLS in U.S. states and territories.
• U.S. public, non-public, or constitution colleges that serve sixth to twelfth-grade college students can assemble a crew (or a number of groups) and enter.
• The minimal variety of college students per crew is 4, and there’s no most per crew.
• Proposals have to be submitted by a crew lead that could be a trainer or worker of the varsity.
• Homeschools are usually not eligible to take part until they’re affiliated with a public, non-public, or constitution faculty that complies with the insurance coverage necessities as acknowledged within the guidelines.

Judging Criteria

• Impact of experiment on crew’s training: 40 factors
• Connection of experiment to NASA’s mission: 20 factors
• Alignment of experiment to crew’s speculation: 20 factors
• Design of the experiment meets design pointers: 20 factors

Application

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to NASA TechRise Student Challenge.