2024 Dream with Us Design Challenge
A natural disaster is a type of severe weather with the potential to pose significant threat to human health and safety. Natural disasters, especially wildfires, affect everyone around the world. Some are affected directly and others indirectly. NASA?s Advanced Capabilities for Emergency Response Operations (ACERO) project is helping to improve wildfire coordination and operations using drones and advanced technologies. Wildfires are not the only natural disasters that affect human life, animal life, and the environment. Learn more about NASA?s ACERO project.
NASAs Advanced Air Mobility mission focuses on, in part, the drone technology needed to gather data about how these automated aircraft can help air travel be more accessible, safe, and affordable. Smaller aircraft such as cargo-carrying drones and passenger-carrying air taxis will have the capability to serve hard-to-reach urban and rural locations. The ACERO project researches the use of this technology to help with preventing a natural disaster, mitigating during a natural disaster situation, and rebuilding after a natural disaster has occurred.
The 2024 Dream with Us design challenge is asking for your help with ideas that will be shared with NASA?s ACERO project and others to design or improve current systems and technologies responding to natural disasters with new aviation such as drones and air taxis. Designs and improvements will focus on these areas:
(1) help reduce natural disaster risks
(2) help mitigate the situation during a natural disaster, and/or
(3) help rebuild after a natural disaster has occurred.
Drone technology can have hundreds of uses and we want you to dream of ways they can help with natural disasters. Since these new technologies will affect future generations, part of the challenge asks you to tell younger audiences why your drone?s work is important to them.
Students ages 13 ? 18 are invited to join with NASA Aeronautics and help us improve the ways we help with natural disasters by adding new aviation capabilities. Put together your dream team of 2 ? 4 teammates and create a new design or improve current capabilities of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to:
Build a presentation for a team of NASA experts that explains how your drone helps in one or all three of these areas. Create a campaign that teaches kids about this disaster and the work of your UAV.
You will have access to STEM activities and resources that can be used to help your team create your project. Winning teams and their school will get the chance to meet a NASA expert to share how they contribute to current aeronautics challenges. Winning designs may also be shared on our social media platforms and more.
For students ages 13 ? 18.
Project submission A is for teams of students ages 13 ? 15. Project submission B is for teams of students ages 16 ? 18 (for teams with multiple ages, the submission category will be based on the oldest member of the team). STEM activities for grades K ? 12 will be available regardless of design challenge participation.
Submissions accepted March 1 ? April 30, 2024. Submission link: https://stemgateway.nasa.gov/s/course-offering/a0B3d000001k6Zj/. Winners will first be announced during a virtual awards reception (TBD) then shared on social media and the Dream with Us design challenge webpage after the reception.
The 2024 Dream with Us Design Challenge opened February 28, 2024. The submission period begins March 1, 2024, and concludes on April 30, 2024, at 11:59 pm EDT. Schools, organizations, and community groups should communicate to parents and guardians that submissions are limited to one entry per team. Entries must be submitted through the submission link on the Dream with Us Design Challenge webpage: https://www.nasa.gov/dream-with-us/. If you are an educator sponsor who would like to submit a student team?s entry on their behalf, you may do so. However, you will need signed permission forms from all parents or legal guardians that agree to the terms and requirements listed below and on the submission form.
Contest is open to all children ages 13-18 who are attending public, private, parochial, and home schools in the United States of America and children of U.S. military members stationed overseas. There will be two separate judging categories: one for participants ages 13 to 15 and one for participants ages 16 to 18.
All submissions must be the original work of the students.
Students must be currently enrolled in grades 6 ? 12.
The challenge is limited to one entry per team.
Teams must include 2 ? 4 student members.
Signed submission forms must be completed by parents or legal guardians for each participant.
Challenge submission presentations may include any of the following:
*Please note that any videos, commercials, websites, or similar will be submitted via a link you provide that we will need to be able to access.
Regardless of how else you choose to communicate your idea, you must also include a PowerPoint-type presentation that details how your drone can help prevent, mitigate during, and/or help rebuild after a natural disaster has occurred and detail how you will share this message with kids.
Every presentation will have two categories: technical and creative. Both categories must be included for consideration. The presentation must include the following information:
All entries will be submitted through the gateway link found here and on the Dream with Us Design Challenge webpage. All entries must include the following:
Entries will be evaluated based on impact, practicality, originality, and how well the idea is communicated. Contest officials will select the top submissions and present them to a panel of five judges. Those judges will make selections based on the above-mentioned criteria to determine which projects will be recognized.
All participants will receive a code that allows them to earn an "endorsement stamp" in the NASA Aeronautics Flight Log, which is available at https://www3.nasa.gov/flightlog/. In addition, select projects will be chosen to be highlighted and showcased through NASA social media, on our website, and in other locations as appropriate. Certificates and other recognition for select projects will also be made available. The selected project creators will be contacted individually using the email provided during registration and winners will be publicly announced on the Dream with Us Design Challenge webpage no later than June 1, 2024. Thank you for participating in the Dream with Us Design Challenge!
A natural disaster is a type of severe weather with the potential to pose significant threat to human health and safety.
A drone is an uncrewed/unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used to perform jobs with a drone pilot using a remote control or autonomously, without a pilot or a remote control. Small drones can be used for observation, mapping, or package delivery, while larger air taxis will have the capability to transport people. Uncrewed/unmanned aircraft systems is the term that emphasizes drones as a system. Click on this link for more information about uncrewed/unmanned aircraft systems.https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20170011510/downloads/20170011510.pdf
A Dream with Us virtual educator professional development will be scheduled for March 2024. Educators can also request a virtual professional development session to better understand the Dream with Us Design Challenge and how to apply. Educators may also request a virtual student session for a classroom/group to better understand the challenge, learn the requirements for applying, and ask questions. Request a virtual student or educator session at [email protected]. Please be sure to include valid contact information (name, email, phone, etc.) and the type of session(s) you are requesting.
Do you have additional questions about the Dream with Us Design Challenge? Reach out to the NASA Aeronautics STEM team at [email protected].
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