[Students] NASA Means Business Student Competition 2008

[Joan Lawrence]

NASA Means Business Student Competition 2008
Program Announcement

The NASA Means Business Student Competition program invites undergraduate
and graduate students to employ their skills to help NASA articulate the
contributions of space exploration to everyday life.

This year¹s challenge is: Help NASA to increase the number of corporate
researchers, university researchers, entrepreneurs, and investors who
utilize the Nation's investment in spaceflight to grow their investments in
knowledge and commerce.

Specifically, participating teams will compete by designing and preparing a
NASA Spaceflight Promotion Plan and illustrative flagship promotion projects
including a fully implemented Internet Solution with a 20-second promotional
video and other concept design/media elements.

We are particularly interested in teams with a wide range of capability,
including the traditional engineering and natural sciences students as well
as advertising, marketing, communication, radio-television-film, journalism
and other similar professions. And, we strongly encourage teams from
underrepresented institutions, and teams that include students from
underrepresented institutions, to submit proposals!

Finalist teams will receive cash awards and behind-the-scenes tours of both
the Johnson Space Center in Texas and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Members of the Grand Prize team will also be flown to Washington, D.C., to
present their work to NASA Headquarters officials.

The Competition Guidelines are posted at: http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/nmb/

The NMB 2008 poster may be downloaded at:
http://www.tsgc.utexas.edu/nmb/nmb08_poster.pdf


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Talia Jurgens
Program Coordinator [www.tsgc.utexas.edu]
Texas Space Grant Consortium

University of Texas, Center for Space Research
3925 W. Braker Lane, Ste 200, Mail Code R1000
Austin, Texas 78759-5321

jurgens at tsgc.utexas.edu
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