WHAT TO GET A GEEK - Cosmic Log - It's hard to know what to buy for a science geek - so hard that we're offering geeky prizes for the best holiday gift idea.
The article has lots of links to get you started with your idea.
prizes to inspire space technology achievements
Space, Prize Twitter Accounts
- prize twitter links, recent tweets
- other space tweets (side panel)
- NASA Prize Winners - Comstock
- Lunabotics Teams
- Space Elevator Games
- Lunar Lander Challenge - XPF
- Regolith Excavation Challenge
- Google Lunar X PRIZE
- X PRIZE Foundation Space
- X PRIZE Foundation Other
- N-Prize
- More Prizes
- Commercial Space
- NASA
- Space Media
- General
- Digital Globes, Remote Sensing
- Progressive Automotive X PRIZE
Just a Reflection
Space Prizes
- X PRIZE Foundation
- The Launch Pad (XPF Space)
- Google Lunar X PRIZE
- Ansari X PRIZE Contestants
- Arkyd CubeSat Challenge
- High Altitude Astrobiology Challenge
- X PRIZE Cup
- Heinlein Prize
- NASA Centennial Challenges
- NASA Innocentive Pavilion
- The Carmack 100kft Micro Prize
- XCOR Flight Prize
- Space Florida SS2 Microgravity
- SunSat Design Competition
- CATS Prize (not won)
- Moon is Me Lunar Mining
- Mars ISRU Prize (in dvlpmnt)
- Planetary Society Asteroid prize
- Planetary Society Contests
- America's Space Prize
- Mission Ideas Contest
- N-Prize (Nanosat)
- FAA Space Access (in dvlpmnt)
- Florida RLV Prize (in devlpmnt)
- Commercial Space Wiki
- NASA Tournament Lab
- Google Earth KML Contest
- Model Your Town
- MiniSpaceWorld
- Pathfinder Innovation Challenge
- Astronaut Glove Challenge
- MoonROx Challenge
Student Space Prizes
- Competitions (OSGC Blog)
- Essay Contests (OSGC Blog)
- Teaching with Contests
- Minority Innovation Challenges
- FameLab Astrobiology
- Spacelab Competition
- SCAG Space Entrepreneurs
- SCAG Zero-G Aerobatics
- Skybox Out-of-the-Box Sat Images
- eXploration Habitat Challenge
- SpaceTech Engineering Design
- Mars Education Challenge
- NASA MAKE Challenge
- Suborbital Researchers Contest
- Caltech Space Challenge
- NASA Waste Limitation Mgmt
- SEDS HIgh Power Rocketry
- SEDS Video Ad Contest
- AIAA Deep Space Hab
- AIAA Commercial ETO Plan
- Experimental Sounding Rocket
- DIME & WING (Drop Tower)
- BalloonSat
- Spaced Out Sports Challenge
- Kids In Micro-g
- Move an Asteroid
- Optimus Prime Spinoff
- No Boundaries
- ASCE Earth and Space 2010
- Thacher Contest
- Geospatial Skills Contest
- Moonbots
- Microgravity Competition
- Rice Business Plan Prizes
- 8C Business Plan Competition
- RASC-AL Robo-Ops
- Top Stars (Hubble in Education)
- ASME Design Competition
- Spaceport America Competition?
- Canadian Sat Design Challenge
- UK Our Space Competition
- Mars Society Rover Challenge
- What If?
- NASA Aeronautics contest
- CanSat Competition
- LEEM Cansat Competition
- Cansat France
- REXUS BEXUS
- Lunabotics
- Lunar Outpost Competition
- TSGC Design Challenge
- Pete Conrad Awards
- NASA Means Business
- UKAYRoC
- Team America Rocketry
- Student Launch Initiative
- University SLI
- ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge
- ESA SUCCESS Competition
- ESA Essay Contest
- Flight into the Future
- Great Moonbuggy Race
- Google Science Fair
Scholarship Competitions
Space Art Prizes
- Moon and Me K-12 Art Challenge
- NanoSail-D Photo Contest
- Yuri's Night Video Contest
- NASA Earth Day Video Contest
- MiniSpaceWorld
- Catch a Star!
- Garriott Student Patch Contest
- NASA Future of Flight Art Contest
- Mars Society Poster Contest
- National Space Society Art Prize
- NSS Banner Contest
- SEDS Space Art Contest
Lunar X PRIZE Sites & Teams
- Google Lunar X PRIZE
- Registered Teams
- GLXP in Google Earth
- Angelicum Chile
- ARCA
- Astrobotic Tech
- Barcelona Moon Team
- EuroLuna
- Team FREDNET
- Independence-X
- Team Indus
- Team Italia
- JURBAN
- LunaTrex
- Moon Express
- Next Giant Leap
- Odyssey Moon
- Omega Envoy
- Part Time Scientists
- Penn State Lunar Lion
- Team Phoenicia
- Team Plan B
- Puli Space
- Rocket City Space Pioneers
- Selenokhod
- Team Space IL
- SpaceMETA
- STELLAR
- SYNERGY MOON
- White Label Space
NG Lunar Lander Sites & Teams
NanoSat Launch Sites and Teams
Sample Return Sites and Teams
Night Rover Sites and Teams
Regolith Sites & Teams
Space Elevator Sites & Teams
Space News
Politics
Civil Aviation Prizes
Military Prizes
Unmanned Vehicle Student Prizes
Health/Medicine Prizes
Energy/Environment Prizes
- Progressive Automotive X PRIZE
- Oil Cleanup X CHALLENGE
- PacX Ocean Robot Data Challenge
- Prize Capital
- Green Flight Challenge
- Earth and Space Awards
- Bill with Hybrid Electric Prize
- DOE Lighting Prize
- Saltire Marine Energy Prize
- Virgin Earth Challenge
- KPBC Prize for Green Innovation
- H-Prize (Hydrogen)
- Climate Leadership Challenge
- MIT Clean Energy Prize
- MIT MADMEC
- Environment Contest List
Human Power Prizes
Other Prizes
Occasional Prize Posts
Open Innovation
Papers
- McKinsey & Company report
- Prizes for Tech Innovation
- Federal Eng/Science Prizes
- (Dis)advantages of NASA Prizes
- African Agriculture Prizes
- Reward contracting
- How effective are prizes?
- Patents vs prizes
- Perfecting Patent Prizes
- Patents vs ex-post rewards
- Climate change tech prizes
- Inducement prize admin
- prizes, patents, and buyouts
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