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Looking for real-world experiences to make your college application and resume stand out? Challenges are competitions you can do on a team or solo—in school or out!—where big money's on the line just by helping solve a pressing industry or community problem with your real-life knohow.

Aerospace Engineering: Next-Gen Flight

How will we fly in 2050? Get ready for take-off into the exciting world of fu... More

Earns

+400 Points

Winner

$10000

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10 minutes a Day. Earn Points & Skills.

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Space is Limited

Effort: 10 minutesJessica Meir grew up in Caribou, a small town at the top of Maine, and her mom says she started talking about being an astronaut when she was five. She studied biology, learned to fly in college, spent a season doing research in Antarctica, and has already lived on the International Space Station once. Now she is going back as the commander of NASA's Crew-12 mission, in charge of the spacecraft, the station, and two crewmates who have never been to space. Six months is a long time to be away from everything you own. Every astronaut gets to bring one small personal kit, and NASA decides how small. The crew that flew around the Moon this spring got a bag about five inches by two inches, weighing no more than three pounds. One packed his family's wedding rings. One packed handwritten notes from home. The commander packed a notebook so he could write to his two teenage daughters, and the Canadian on the crew packed maple syrup and cookies, not for himself, but for everyone. Your Task: Imagine you are the third member of Meir's crew, and your bag is due at the scale tomorrow. 1. The Bag Six months in orbit, one bag, five inches by two, about three pounds. Decide what goes in. It could be one thing that matters or a dozen small things, something for you, something for a crewmate, something useful, something that just makes you laugh. The only rules are the size and the weight. Say what you packed and what it is for on a bad day up there. (5 to 6 sentences.) 2. Over at the Scale Your bag comes in half a pound over. Rank what you packed from the first thing you would give up to the last, say what comes out, and name the one thing you would argue with NASA to keep and what you would say to them. (3 to 4 sentences.) Ready to try to win the big bucks? Try our newest KnoPro Challenge: Aerospace Engineering: Next-Gen Flight. More

Earns:
10 pointsAwarded:
(1) $100 e-gift card

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Urban Assembly Gateway School for Technology

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Choose Any Challenge Summer Edition: 2026

It's your chance to win $$$ in our Choose Any Challenge! Take your pick from previous Challe...Learn more

10 weeks ChallengeEarns: +400pts

Problem SolvingCommunicationSocial Awareness

Awarded:
$5000

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