The Artemis Moon Pod Essay Contest is challenging K-12 students to imagine what it would be like to lead a one-week expedition at the Moon’s South Pole. What skills, attributes and/or personality traits would an astronaut need for a successful mission 250,000 miles from Earth? What technology would be good to leave on the lunar surface to help future astronauts explore the Moon?
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/stem/artemis-essay-contest
Participants must be U.S. citizens. Entries will be divided into three categories: Grades K-4, Grades 5-8 and Grades 9-12. Selected semifinalists will be invited to take part in a series of Artemis Explorer sessions with NASA experts. Nine finalists will have the opportunity to travel with a parent to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, to learn about lunar exploration, and the national winner in each grade division will receive a family trip to see the first Artemis flight test to watch the most-powerful rocket in the world launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
Do you want to help select the winning essay? Click here to register to be a judge: https://www.futureengineers.org/registration/judge
Entries are due Dec. 17.