The Innovation Fair challenges Ames civil servants to propose and share innovative and collaborative ideas that catalyze inspirational discussion, idea generation, and open communication. The Innovation Fair is the only center-based mechanism for funding mission and mission support proposals! In 2022 – for the first time – the Innovation Fair was hybrid! We had mix of virtual and in-person presenters and attendees that made the Fair a successful platform for cross-organization collaboration.

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2022 Innovation Fair:

• Anupa Bajwa (TI) – Systems Thinking for Organizational Design: Vision, Alignment, and Execution
• Grace Belancik (SCB)– Separation of Spacecraft Cabin Aerosols
• Andrew Ging (AT) – Model-Based Systems Engineering Integration
• Rodney Martin (TI) – Scaling a Smart Sub-metered Electrical Data Solution for the Center
• Marcus Murbach (RS) – Lunar Marvin: Compact CLIPS Innovative Rover
• Emmett Quigley (SSA) – Weather Station on the Moon
• Carol Stoker (STT) – Drilling + GPR Field Mission
• Francis Sullivan (AFS) – Simulation Facility to Develop Synchronization Standards for VR Visuals and Motion

Check out the Innovation Fair’s SharePoint site (internal NASA access only) for more information.

Past Innovation Fair Winners

2020

Please join us in congratulating the awardees of the 2020 Ames Innovation Fair:
Emmett Quigley – FISSS: Fluorescence Instrument for Solar System Science
Lynn Rothschild – Miniature Biometric Swarms: A Novel Approach to Remote Sensing
Carol Stoker – Is Midlatitude Ground Ice on Mars Habitable for Life?
Brittany Wickizer – Poseidon: Supporting Concurrent Engineering for the Mission Design Center
Marcus Murbach – Nano-ALSEP: Use of Nano-sat Technology to Advance Lunar Exploration Science/Engineering
Cara Dodge – Voices of Ames
Pamela Marcum – Developing a Miniaturized Biological Assay for the Astrobiology Search Kit

2019

Please join us in congratulating the awardees of the 2019 Ames Innovation Fair:
Jonas Dino – Inform, Engage, Inspire 2.0: Exhibit Development
Robert Haberle – Mars Auto Rotating Science Stations
Alex Mazhari – E3DP: Evolutionary 3D-Printing
Emmett Quigley – IceMic
Carol Stoker – Planetary Environment Simulation Chambers
Wenonah Vercoutere – New Flight Hardware for Biological Experiments

2018

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2018 Ames Innovation Fair:
Mark Ditzler – Ames Planetary Environments Simulation Laboratory
Jonas Dino – Inform, Engage, Inspire: NSV Traveling Exhibit
Roy Johnson – SEASTAR: Innovation for Shipborne Sunphotometry
Jeffrey Logan – Porous Winglet with Ducted Outflow
Wendy Okolo – Where Should It Fly?
Brenden Sanborn – NASA Ames Core Competencies VR tour

2017

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2017 Ames Innovation Fair:
Daniel Chang – CHAT: Cloud Hub for the Acquisition Team
Ved Chirayath – MiDAR kW – High Power Active Multispectral Imaging
Thomas Clausen – NASA Ames K-12 STEM Challenges
Tracie Conn – Attitude Control System for Femtosatellites
Emmett Quigley – Sample Analysis Miniaturization for Europa
Anthony Strawa – Ames Collaboratory: A Peer Community Promoting Inn

2016

Please join us in congratulating the winners of the 2016 Ames Innovation Fair:
Diana Acosta – EColI: Escape * Collaborate * Innovate
Ved Chirayath – MiDAR UV – Multispectral Detection and Active Reflectance in Ultra-Violet
Anthony Colprete – Large Diffractive Aperture for NEA Detection
Vanessa Kuroda – Inside Ames 2.0
Thomas Paine – NASA Micro/NanoSatellite Cost Model
Thomas Paine – Project Planning and Control System
Sean Swei – ADEPT-based Active Lift Guided Planetary Entry