NASA introduced the winners on Wednesday of the third annual Energy to Discover Problem, a nationwide writing competitors designed to show Ok-12 college students in regards to the energy of radioisotopes for house exploration.
The competitors requested college students to find out about NASA’s Radioisotope Energy Methods (RPS), “nuclear batteries” the company makes use of to discover a number of the most excessive locations within the photo voltaic system and past. In 250 phrases or much less, college students wrote a few mission of their very own enabled by these house energy techniques and described their very own energy to realize their mission objectives.
“The Energy to Discover Problem is the proper approach to encourage college students – our Artemis Technology – to achieve for the celebs and past and assist NASA discover new methods to make use of radioisotopes to energy our exploration of the cosmos,” stated Nicola Fox, affiliate administrator, Science Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington.
Entries had been cut up into three teams based mostly on grade degree, and a winner was chosen from every. The three winners, together with a guardian, are invited to NASA’s Glenn Analysis Middle in Cleveland for a VIP tour of its world-class analysis services.
The winners are:
- Rainie Lin, Lexington, Kentucky, kindergarten via fourth grade
- Aadya Karthik, Redmond, Washington, fifth via eighth grade
- Thomas Liu, Ridgewood, New Jersey, ninth via 12th grade
“Congratulations to this 12 months’s winners and contributors – collectively, we uncover and probe for the advantage of all,” Fox stated.
The Energy to Discover Problem supplied college students the chance to find out about house energy, have a good time their strengths, and work together with NASA’s various workforce. This 12 months’s contest acquired practically 1,787 submitted entries from 48 states and Puerto Rico.
Each scholar who submitted an entry acquired a digital certificates and an invite to the Energy Up digital occasion held on March 15 that introduced the 45 nationwide semifinalists. Moreover, the nationwide semifinalists acquired a NASA RPS prize pack.
NASA introduced three finalists in every age group (9 complete) throughout Whole Eclipse Fest 2024 in Cleveland on April 8, a day when tens of millions of People noticed a quick glimpse of life with out daylight, creating a chance to make clear how NASA may energy missions with out the Solar’s vitality at locations similar to deep lunar craters or deep house. Finalists additionally had been invited to debate their mission ideas with a NASA scientist or engineer throughout a digital occasion.
The problem is funded by the NASA Science Mission Directorate’s RPS Program Workplace and administered by Future Engineers below the NASA Open Innovation Companies 2 contract. This contract is managed by the NASA Match Lab, part of the Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing Program in NASA’s Area Know-how Mission Directorate.
For extra data on radioisotope energy techniques go to:
https://www.nasa.gov/rps
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Karen Fox / Charles Blue
Headquarters, Washington
301-286-6284 / 202-802-5345
karen.c.fox@nasa.gov / charles.e.blue@nasa.gov
Kristin Jansen
Glenn Analysis Middle, Cleveland
216-296-2203
kristin.m.jansen@nasa.gov
