Submit Letter of Intent to Propose

• Let us know if you are entering
• Email your name, contact information and school(s) to fort@tsgc.utexas.edu by 11/7/2008

Submit Proposal

• Email your proposal to fort@tsgc.utexas.edu by 11/21/2008
• Proposal must include:
1. Preliminary Constellation Program Branding Strategy concept,
2. Draft storyboard for 30-second video that illustrates your concept,
3. Student team leader’s name and contact information, and
4. Team faculty adviser’s name and contact information.

Selection and Announcement of Finalist Teams

• Five (5) Finalist Teams will be announced on 12/19/2008
• Selection criteria:
• Creativity
• Completeness
• Eligibility
• Each Finalist Team receives $1,000 cash award

Finalist Teams' Competition

• NASA Orientation Seminar at Johnson Space Center on 2/23-24/2009
• Meet the people who manage, design and operate space missions
• We pay for one team member's travel to Houston
• More can attend at your expense
• Midpoint Videoconference, to be scheduled during 3/16-27/20098
• 1-hour confidential, to help you refine ideas

11th Annual NASA Means Business - Final Round on 5/4-6/2009

• Present your final work at Kennedy Space Center
• Meet the people who launch space missions
• We pay for two team members' travel to Florida
• More can attend at your expense

Grand Prize

• Present your work to senior NASA Headquarters officials in September 2009
• Meet the people who lead NASA
• We pay for two team members' travel to Washington, D.C.
• More can attend at your expense
• CHOOSE ONE:
  • Experience weightlessness, same as astronauts do; OR
  • In G-FORCE ONE®
  • We pay for two team members' flights, including travel
  • More can attend at your expense
  • A cash award of $10,000.