This competition provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to gain critical skills in engineering, computing, electronics, and more that will be required for America's technical workforce. If you are in sixth to 12th-grade at a U.S. public, private, or charter school - including those in U.S. territories - your challenge is to team up with your schoolmates and develop a science or technology experiment idea for one of the following NASA TechRise flight vehicles:
- Suborbital-Spaceship with approximately 3 minutes of microgravity.
- High-Altitude Balloon with approximately 4 to 8 hours of flight time at 70,000 to 95,000 feet and exposure to Earth's atmosphere, high-altitude radiation, and perspective views of our planet.
Award: $1,500 each to 60 winning teams
Open Date: September 4, 2025
Close Date: November 3, 2025
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