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Prizes, Challenges, and Crowdsourcing

NASA connects the public to the agency’s missions and explores creative possibilities for addressing the agency’s needs through prizes, challenges, and crowdsourcing opportunities. The program bridges NASA’s institutional expertise with the ingenuity of industry experts, universities, and the public at large, resulting in collaborations that help advance space technology solutions. The program’s opportunities are available through Centennial Challenges and the Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI).

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Centennial Challenges

NASA Centennial Challenges offer incentive prizes to generate revolutionary solutions to problems of interest to NASA and the nation. The program seeks innovations from diverse and non-traditional sources. Competitors are not supported by government funding and awards are only made to successful teams when the challenges are met.

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Crew of Two Astronauts in Space Suits Standing on the Moon Looking at the The Milky Way Galaxy. High Tech Concept of Moon Colonization and Space Travel.
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Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation

The Center of Excellence for Collaborative Innovation (CoECI) works with innovators across NASA and the Federal Government to generate ideas and solve important problems by working with global communities via the NASA Tournament Lab and internally via NASA Spark.

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Open Innovation Success Stories

Boosting NASA Higher, Faster, and Farther

Read how prize competitions, challenges, and other crowdsourcing opportunities advance technology supporting NASA and benefit the solvers who participate.

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Colorado School of Mines team members pouring regolith slag into tile sandcasting molds to review applicability for use as building products in the 2023 BIG Idea Challenge.

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