Competition Overview

Your team must register with the Competition organisers to receive key materials not included here. Only entries from registered teams will be considered for advancement. Competition process includes the following events:

PHASE ONE: Preliminary Qualifying Competition (at your school). Your team represents Northdonning Heedwell, a major aerospace company, and your customer is an organisation called the Foundation Society. Create and submit your design for an orbiting space settlement, in hopes that your company will be awarded the lucrative contract to construct it. The Preliminary Request for Proposal (RFP), summarises the requirements for the Space Settlement desired by the customer. When your team registers for the Competition, you will receive the Final RFP, which describes everything the customer wants in your design. Submit your written (on paper!) design description for evaluation by the Judging Panel for your region.

Specific Information for 2007 UK Entrants:

Eligibility Requirements for Team Members: Secondary School students, during the 2007 school year (typically between 14 and 17 years of age)

Team Details: Preliminary Qualifying Competition teams may be of any size; however semi-finalist companies are limited to 12 members, with two adult advisors or mentors. Companies formed from paired cluster groups or smaller teams will also be restricted to 12 members, but one adult advisor per group. Prior competitions have shown that it is of great assistance to have at least one good artist and one good writer on your team.

Design Task Description: To Be Advised

Future Year of Proposal: To Be Advised

Competition Commencement: To Be Advised

Proposal Due Date For UK Team Entrants: To Be Advised

Judging Result for UK: To Be Advised


PHASE TWO: UK Space Settlement Design (Semi-Finalist) Competition: Some companies of twelve will be formed for the semi-finals round. Small clusters will be paired to form twelve-person companies; individual entrants will also work with larger groups in this fashion. The final composition of teams will remain at the judges discretion based around preliminary submissions and effective company sizes. The companies will meet to prepare designs and presentations, undertaking an intense two-day version of the Finals Competition. The successful company will then progress to the Finalist Competition.

Specific Information for 2007 Semi-Finalist Competition:

Finalist Teams Selected: To Be Advised

Finalist Teams Arrive: To Be Advised

Design Task Description:To Be Advised

Future Year of Proposal: To Be Advised

Finalist Teams Design Preparation:To Be Advised

Finalist Teams Design Presentations: To Be Advised



PHASE THREE: International Finalist Competition at Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas: The eight Finalist teams (semi-finalists and preliminary entrants) will be paired to form four competing companies. Your company will prepare a design at the Johnson Space Center Visitor Complex, for a settlement on an extraterrestrial surface. You will work in conditions that resemble those experienced by members of high-pressure proposal teams in industry, with assistance from real working engineers and managers. Designs will be presented to an audience that includes the judges and competing teams. Presenters will answer the judges' questions about their designs. Judges from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Orange County Section will select a winning design, and provide a debriefing describing merits and weak points of the proposals.