NASA wants to use its Moon/Mars Exploration program to convince middle and high school students to study math and science. It is looking for fresh, new ways to do this from university students (like you?) representing both the traditional "space disciplines" PLUS some not normally associated with space exploration, like:

Win Cash and Road Trips to NASA

NASA Means Business Student Competition 2007 has two rounds - one in the Fall 2006 semester and the other in the Spring 2007 semester.

During the Fall 2006 semester, you will assemble a team of your college student colleagues to prepare and submit a proposal describing your ideas about how NASA can better promote science and mathematics education among middle and high school students, as well as the general public.

If your proposal is selected from those received, your team will compete in Round 2 against four other Finalist Teams to develop a NASA STEM Education Promotion Plan, highlighted by your digital video, print and Internet productions to showcase your promotional strategy. ("STEM" stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics.) Each of the five Finalist Teams will receive:

• A cash award of $1,000, and
• An invitation and travel expense award to "behind-the-scenes" visits at both the Johnson Space Center in Houston and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In addition, if your team is chosen as the Grand Prize Recipient, you will be invited to present your work to senior officials at NASA Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

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NASA intends to use your work

NASA plans to incorporate innovations from your work into its emerging strategic communication strategy and evaluate it against other leading concepts being developed for NASA-TV and elsewhere.

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