Eligibility

Each prospective onsite team member must be enrolled as an undergraduate or graduate student at an accredited U.S. institution of higher learning (community college, military academy, technical college, or university) Note, enrollment verification may be requested and must be certified for participation at any time during the activity period.

• Team members must be 18 or older before arrival in Houston.
• Each team will be allowed eight badged participants for the onsite culminating event. These eight individuals MUST be U.S. Citizens or Legal Permanent Residents. While there is no limit on the number of participants for each team, institutions are encouraged to submit multiple different proposals if they have many interested students. Note: In previous years NASA has provided opportunities for non-badged participation in Houston. Currently there is no plan to offer an offsite option for non-badged participants in 2025.
• Each team must be accompanied onsite by the faculty advisor or an adult age 21 or older serving as the faculty advisor.
• All participants MUST attend the Orientation and Virtual Software Design Review.
• Team members may only participate with one team in the same competition.
• Student experiments must be organized, designed, and operated by student team members alone.
• All participants must be enrolled for the activity in STEM Gateway and have accepted the offer by the deadline provided by the NASA SUITS team.
• Interns involved in the design of a SUITS challenge may not participate as a member of a team in that same cycle of the SUITS challenge, however, they may serve as a team advisor.

Proposals

• See the 2024-2025 Proposal Guidelines for full guidelines and regulations.

How to Apply

The application window has now closed. Please check back in the fall for more information.

Complete the following steps to submit a Challenge Application in NASA STEM Gateway:

1. Login OR Create a Customized Profile – Create an account for access to additional functionality and curated experiences.
2. Choose the Challenge Opportunity – The challenge opportunity will only be accessible during the active (open) application period.
3. Click on the Apply button in the upper-right corner and complete the application.