Participants get a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build and potentially launch their own CubeSat satellite, earning a completion certificate signed by astronauts.
The Space Prize Foundation's NYC CubeSat Challenge & Space Camp offers high school students, particularly young women, an immersive and competitive program focused on space education and innovation. Participants engage in hands-on activities, workshops, lectures, and tours related to space science and technology. The program emphasizes learning basic physics, circuitry, and coding, culminating in teams designing and building their own CubeSat satellites. Students brainstorm real-world problems a CubeSat could solve, design the system, and then build it. The camp provides a unique opportunity to interact with NASA astronauts, world-renowned scientists, and award-winning educators, fostering STEM skills, confidence, and networking within the space industry. The top teams even have the chance to see their CubeSats launched into space.
A typical day involves engaging with real-life NASA astronauts and experts, learning cutting-edge STEM skills in workshops, and working in teams to design and build CubeSat satellites.
This program is ideal for high school girls aged 14-18 who are interested in exploring STEM fields and dream of a career in the space industry.
Multiple Locations in NYC
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