Design a habitat in space with Moon Camp 2024-2025
Join Moon Camp 2024-2025 and encourage your students to learn how to design a habitat in space using a design tool of their choice. Students will discover the essential building blocks to sustain life beyond Earth and explore different locations in our Solar System. Register now to start exploring the immense possibilities of space exploration!
What is Moon Camp?
Moon Camp is an educational project run in collaboration between ESA and the national ESEROs and the Airbus Foundation. It uses innovative learning technologies to challenge students to create their own human habitat for space exploration on the Moon or farther out in the Solar System.
When designing their space habitat, teams will need to adapt their design to the space environment, consider the use of local resources and provide protection and living and working facilities for the astronauts. The Moon Camp platform provides educational and fun hands-on classroom activities that focus on learning by-design and science experimentation.
Moon Camp has a flexible and open format: the projects can range from a scientific experiment, a hands-on project, a design of space infrastructures, a 3D design of an astronaut base, a 3D printing model, a virtual or augmented reality world and much more. Teams have the freedom to select the topic and format that best fits their ideas and to get creative!
Every team that submits a valid project will be awarded a participation certificate, and their projects will be showcased in the Moon Camp Gallery. Upon completion, teams will be invited to attend a virtual event featuring an ESA astronaut.
How to apply?
Participation is open worldwide to individuals or teams of students aged up to 19 years old. The projects may be submitted by teachers or educators. Students attending a post-secondary/tertiary institution are not eligible to apply.
To submit a project and for more information, please visit mooncampchallenge.org.