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Your team must register with the Competition organisers to receive key materials not included here. Only entries from registered teams will be considered for advancement. Competition process includes the following events:
PHASE ONE:
Preliminary Qualifying Competition (at your high school). Your team represents Northdonning Heedwell, a major aerospace company, and your customer is an organisation called the Foundation Society. Create and submit your design for an orbiting space settlement, in hopes that your company will be awarded the lucrative contract to construct it. The Preliminary Request for Proposal (RFP), summarises the requirements for the Space Settlement desired by the customer. When your team registers for the Competition, you will receive the Final RFP, which describes everything the customer wants in your design. Submit your written (on paper!) design description for evaluation by the Judging Panel for your region.
Specific Information for 2010-2011 Australian Entrants:
Eligibility Requirements for Team Members: High School students, from grade's 9 to 12, during the 2010 school year (typically, but not exclusively, between 14 and 17 years of age)
Team Details: Preliminary Qualifying Competition teams may be of any size; however semi-finalist companies are limited to 12 members, with two adult advisors or mentors. Companies formed from paired cluster groups or smaller teams will also be restricted to 12 members, but one adult advisor per group. Prior competitions have shown that it is of great assistance to have at least one good artist and one good writer on your team.
Design Task Description:design proposal for 'astoria' space settlement in the asteroid belt.
Future Year of Proposal: 2071
Competition Commencement: april 2010
Proposal Due Date For Australian Team Entrants: monday 11th october, 2010
Judging Result for Australia: Eight teams of semi-finalists advance to the Australian Semi-Finalist Competition.
PHASE TWO:
Australian Space Design (Semi-Finalist) Competition in Australia: Eight companies of twelve will be formed for the semi-finals round. Small clusters will be paired to form twelve-person companies; individual entrants will also work with larger groups in this fashion. The final composition of teams will remain at the judges discretion based around preliminary submissions and effective company sizes. The companies will meet in Brisbane to prepare designs and presentations, undertaking an intense two-day version of the Finals Competition. The successful company will then progress to the Finalist Competition.
Specific Information for 2010-2011 ASDC Semi-Finalist Competition:
Finalist Teams Selected: by 10th december, 2010
Finalist Teams Arrive in Brisbane, QLD: thursday 27th January, 2011
Design Task Description: to be confirmed by judging panel
Future Year of Proposal: ≈2074
Finalist Teams Design Preparation: Thursday 27th january, & all day friday, 28th january, 2011
Finalist Teams Design Presentations:
FRIDAY NIGHT, 28TH January, 2011
PHASE THREE:
International Finalist Competition at Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas: The eight Finalist teams (semi-finalists and preliminary entrants) will be paired to form four competing companies. Your company will prepare a design at the Johnson Space Center Visitor Complex, for a settlement on an extraterrestrial surface. You will work in conditions that resemble those experienced by members of high-pressure proposal teams in industry, with assistance from real working engineers and managers. Designs will be presented to an audience that includes the judges and competing teams. Presenters will answer the judges' questions about their designs. Judges from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Orange County Section will select a winning design, and provide a debriefing describing merits and weak points of the proposals.
The ISSDC Finals occur each year during the USA summer holidays. This coincides approximately with the Australian winter holidays in July. The ASDC Champion will thus have the opportunity to travel to the USA in July 2010.
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IMPORTANT DATES FOR THE ASDC
| 04/2011 |
RFP Distributed. 2011 Competition begins |
Wednesday
31/08/2011 |
Team Registrations due |
Tuesday
04/10/2011 |
SDCA General Meeting (St Aidan's, Room SG02) |
Monday
10/10/2011 |
Submission deadline for all preliminary entrants |
| November 14, 2011 |
Judging complete |
| November 15, 2011 |
SDCA Management Committee meeting (Venue TBA) |
| November 21, 2011 |
Finalists announced |
| December 2, 2011 |
Team lists and entry fees due |
| January 20, 2012 |
Interstate finalists arrive |
| January 21022, 2012 |
ASDC Final |
| January 23, 2012 |
Interstate Finalists depart |
HOT NEWS
In July this year, 13 students and 3 teachers representing 4 different schools travelled to the USA to compete in the International Space Settlement Design Competition.
After two weeks of preparation visiting sites such as Kennedy Space Centre (Florida) and the Smithsonian Institute (Washington D.C.), the Australian team joined over 100 other students from countries such as Uruguay, England, India and Pakistan to compete.
Although unsuccessful in taking out the major prize, the team did exceptionally well, gaining a great deal from the experience and this will no doubt continue to boost the high standard of the local competition.
MAJOR SPONSORS
Queensland Government
Department of Education, Training, and the Arts
Acknowledgement:
this material has been developed as part of the Australian SChool
Innovation in Science, Technolofy, and Mathematics Project funded by
the Australian Government Department of Education, Science and Traning
as part of the Boosting Innovation in SCience, Technology and
Mathematics Teaching (BISTMT) Programme.
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