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NASA offers prizes to students with radical ideas
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Posted on Feb 24 2005
NASA’s Institute for Advanced Concepts is offering up to four $9,000 fellowships to students with ideas that can dramatically advance the Vision for Space Exploration.
The NIAC Student Fellow Prize program provides opportunities for creative college students, including those in the CNMI, to develop revolutionary advanced concepts in aeronautics, space, and the sciences.
“The NIAC encourages potential student fellows to focus their thoughts and stretch their imagination decades into the future. It encourages and aggressive pursuit of concepts that will leap-frog the evolution of today’s systems and that can be the framework for future NASA missions and programs,” said NIAC associate director Dr. Diana Jennings of the Universities Space Research Association, which runs NIAC for NASA.
“Students receiving these funds will be designated as NIAC student fellows. We seek the promise for important future advances based on a track record of accomplishment, and the fellowships have the potential to inspire subsequent creative work,” Jennings said. NIAC seeks concepts that stretch the imagination and that are based on sound scientific principles.
Student fellows are required to team with an experienced mentor in an aerospace-related field from academic or industry.
The deadline for proposal submissions is April 15, 2005. Awards will be announced in May. For application procedures, eligibility and program requirements on the Web, visit http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/students/call/NIAC_Student_Fellows_2005-2006.pdf.
For NIAC information, including previously sponsored proposals, on the Web, visit http://www.niac.usra.edu/index.html.
For information about NASA and the Vision for Space Exploration on the Web, visit http://www.nasa.gov/missions/solarsystem/explore_main.html.
