The NASA TechRise Student Challenge 2025 is now accepting applications. Interested candidates are encouraged to click here to learn more about this opportunity and to apply.
About NASA TechRise Student Challenge
Opportunity Details
This competition provides a hands-on opportunity for participants to gain critical skills in engineering, computing, electronics, and more that will be required for America’s technical workforce.
Benefits of NASA TechRise Student Challenge
A total of 60 winning teams will be selected to build their proposed experiment. Each winning team will be awarded:
- $1,500 to build their experiment
- A starter kit, including a flight box in which to build their experiment
- An assigned spot to test their experiment on a NASA-sponsored flight
- Technical support during the experiment build phase from Future Engineers advisors, who will help students learn the skills they need to turn their experiment idea into reality
NASA TechRise Student Challenge Requirements
- Open to SCHOOLS in U.S. states and territories
- U.S. public, private, or charter schools that serve sixth to 12th-grade students can assemble a team (or multiple teams) and enter.
- The minimum number of students per team is four, and there is no maximum per team.
- Proposals must be submitted by a team lead that is a teacher or employee of the school.
- Homeschools are not eligible to participate unless they are affiliated with a public, private, or charter school that complies with the insurance requirements as stated in the rules.
Application Date and Process
Click on the link to the application website to apply.
Application Deadline
03 November, 2025
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