2025 Challenge Timeline

The NASA Minority University Research and Education Project (MUREP) Innovative New Designs for Space (INDS) (NASA MINDS) Challenge is accepting applications and proposals now through Oct. 18, 2024*. 

*The NASA MINDS application and proposal deadline has been extended to Oct.18, 2024.

Description	Start/Event Date	End/Deadline
Application and proposal period	Sept. 9, 2024	Oct. 18, 2024
Teams notified of project/proposal disposition		Oct. 21, 2024
Kick-off Webinar for accepted teams at 3:00PM ET	Oct. 24, 2024
Teams work on project design	Sept. 9, 2024	Nov. 18, 2024
Webinar: Essential Faculty Information for Stipends and Awards Recording with Live Q&A at 3:00PM ET	Nov. 7, 2024
Teams submit Preliminary Design Review (PDR)	Oct. 24, 2024	Nov. 18, 2024
Must pass Readiness Review Quiz 1 prior to submission
Teams notified of PDR approval or deficiency		Dec. 2, 2024
Virtual one-on-one meetings with PDR-deficient teams	Dec. 3, 2024	Dec. 6, 2024
Final PDR submission deadline		Dec. 12, 2024
Stipends issued to PDR-approved teams	Dec. 16, 2024	Dec. 20, 2024
Teams purchase materials, build, and test their projects	Dec. 2, 2024	Mar. 26, 2025
Mandatory one-on-one Critical Design Review (CDR) meetings with each team.	Feb. 10, 2025	Feb. 28, 2025
Must pass Readiness Review Quiz 2 prior to meeting
Teams submit project deliverables (Tutorials and Readiness Review Quizzes 3-5 are required)		Mar. 26, 2025
Underclassmen Teams: Technical Poster, Technical Paper, Project Video		Mar. 26, 2025
Senior Teams:  Systems Engineering Paper, Technical Poster, Project Video		Mar. 26, 2025
Completion of Tutorial and Readiness Review Quiz 6 required (preparation for live presentation)		April 9, 2025
Finalist Teams announced	April 25, 2025
Finalists present to NASA Judges	April 30, 2025	May 1, 2025
2025 NASA MINDS Awards Ceremony (live and virtual)	May 7, 2025
VIP Experience at Kennedy Space Center for NASA MINDS and First Nations Launch winning teams (Aug/Sept)	TBD	TBD