Announcing the 2025 NASA Student Art Contest Winners
This year’s contest inspired a record setting number of students to participate. Each piece of art showcased the imagination of students across the nation whose wonder will change the world. Congratulations to this years winners. Contest officials will reach out to each winner with additional guidance.
Kindergarten Winners:
1st Place: Elizabeth Xiao A Cosmic Call, The Wormhole Telecom
2nd Place: Eason Chen My Dream
3rd Place: Mason Pu I color the stars
Honorable Mention: Alexandra Skabelin From Oranges to Moons
Honorable Mention: Khavish Satpathy If Cloud can be my car and Fire Trucks can use Cloud Water
Honorable Mention: Anika Saxena Exploring Space
Honorable Mention: Sophia Otott-Li Go to space
1st Grade Winners:
1st Place: Chloe Ji A Marsbulous Future
2nd Place: Skylar Guo Secret Oasis
3rd Place: Daniel Min What If We Had a Garden on Mars
Honorable Mention: Elinor Chen Out Space Feelings
Honorable Mention: Eliana Cha Black Guardian of the Earth
Honorable Mention: Mia Yu Life below, Chaos above
Honorable Mention: Nora Cheng Welcome to My Mars Home!
Honorable Mention: Leanne Kim NASA’s Starry Campsite
2nd Grade Winners:
1st Place: Olivia Park The Red Planet’s School of Wonder
2nd Place: Evan Hu Journey to the Stars
3rd Place: Zuri Lyamuya Messages to the infinite
Honorable Mention: Eddie Xiang AI era is coming
Honorable Mention: Natalia Lang Environmental Monitoring in Space
Honorable Mention: Arya Ocasio Future city
Honorable Mention: Jason Wen Exploring the universe
Honorable Mention: Brandon Liu Welcome to Earth_ Surfing Hawaiian Waves
Honorable Mention: Evelyn Kim Fly to Mars on a robot dragon
Honorable Mention: Scarlette Tian Colourful life on Mars
3rd Grade Winners
1st Place: Harper Cheng We wonder, we explore and we change!
2nd Place: Yoonkeon Cho From Imagination To Space-nation
3rd Place: Emma Dong My view from NASA’s control room
Honorable Mention: Claire Chae Exploring to Light the Future
Honorable Mention: Shiloh David Space wonders , unlimited possibilities
Honorable Mention: Carter Evans Batter Up
Honorable Mention: Marilyn Amatayakul Planting on the planet Mars
Honorable Mention: Yunhan Zheng Journey Through The Stars
Honorable Mention: Jonathan Chen The Mighty Space Shuttle in Action
4th Grade Winners
1st Place: Yuna Lee Mars Express
2nd Place: Yueran Lang A day at Mars NASA Space Center
3rd Place: Emily Jiang What If I Could See What James Webb Space Telescope Can See
Honorable Mention: Lydia Kim Octo-Bot_ NASA’s Space Junk Cleaning Robot
Honorable Mention: Max Ahn What if humans land on other planets
Honorable Mention: Mason Gao The Last Galaxy Hitchhiker
Honorable Mention: Saavina Mendonca Watching Movies
5th Grade Winners
1st Place: Elaine Chao Bloom Beyond Earth
2nd Place: Avery Wang What If We Reached the Stars
3rd Place: Victoria Lang Our Life on Mars
Honorable Mention: Skylar Lee Interstellar Encounter Greetings on a New World
Honorable Mention: Jamie Kim The Future with A.I.
Honorable Mention: Amélia Bueno Wondrous Space Adventure
Honorable Mention: Clarence Jurado Satellite in Space
6th Grade Winners
1st Place: Manda He Mission in Progress mail to Mars
2nd Place: Gia Hong Draw A Dream
3rd Place: Chloe Chen Celestial Exploration
Honorable Mention: Michael Gao Space Cubing
Honorable Mention: Aditi Batchu There is No Planet B!
Honorable Mention: Lillian Gu The future world
Honorable Mention: Sky Park 5 Billion Years Later
Honorable Mention: Yolanda Xiong My Future Friend
7th Grade Winners
1st Place: Christina Park How can NASA help animals in need
2nd Place: Derek Ahn What if humans land on other planets
3rd Place: Elvin Zhu Paint The World With Wonder
Honorable Mention: Albee Cao Civilian Spaceflight
Honorable Mention: Angelina Shi Astral Exploration
Honorable Mention: Chenxi Fei Exploration and the unknown
Honorable Mention: Yuming Ji New Home
Honorable Mention: Anisha Roy Dream Big, Think Big & Think Different to Achieve New Goals
Honorable Mention: Shambhavi Gupta WORKING TOGETHER CAN CHANGE THE WORLD!
8th Grade Winners
1st Place: Jane Lee Changing the World
2nd Place: Xian Lin City In Space
3rd Place: Joanna Hu New World
Honorable Mention: HAYAL ANAVATAN From Neurons of Wonder to Creation
Honorable Mention: Evana Deivasankar Curiosity brings Life
Honorable Mention: Raj Subedi The Astronaut’s Solar Eclipse
Honorable Mention: Hanxi Zha My World
Honorable Mention: Jiening Mei Berries into the future
9th Grade Winners
1st Place: Wayne Li Immensity
2nd Place: Vicky Ding Cosmic Odyssey
3rd Place: Hongyu Zhu Reflections of a New World
Honorable Mention: Brianna Peralta My Lights
Honorable Mention: Nancy Phan Beyond the Cosmos
Honorable Mention: Yunyao Zhu Head in the Clouds (Spaced-Out)
Honorable Mention: Isabella Chang What If There Were Star Trees in Space
Honorable Mention: Raeun Kim Pioneering Spirit
Honorable Mention: Dikshita Tamuly Rather than looking search for it , specious dream
Honorable Mention: Jungmin Woo Celestial Pursuit
10th Grade Winners
1st Place: Tina Chen Fields of Dreams
2nd Place: Mengkuo Kuang Ecosystem Beyond the Stars
3rd Place: Eunice Cho Arriving Shortly
Honorable Mention: Rocky Jiang Dare to Dream
Honorable Mention: ZhiPeng Chen Future land
Honorable Mention: Layla Su Look Up
Honorable Mention: Kaveesh Balaji Space Dreamz
Honorable Mention: Alice Han Astral Longing
Honorable Mention: Emilia Nephew Everybody Loves Cyberpunk Space Whales
Honorable Mention: Brandon Hanaoka First Impressions
11th Grade Winners
1st Place: Anyu Liu What if…
2nd Place: Caresse Cheng A Giant Leap Awaits
3rd Place: Cathy Wang A Dream of a New Frontier
Honorable Mention: Olivia Leung Infinite World
Honorable Mention: Seoyoon Song From Oars to Orbit
Honorable Mention: Taehyun Bang The Infinite Fold_ Dimensions of the Universe
Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Fan Curiosity
Honorable Mention: Sarah Rohira A World’s Embrace
Honorable Mention: Avery Minner Creation is our Wonder
12th Grade Winners
1st Place: Dahyun Jung My Wonders With You
2nd Place: Alexander Ghazi Imaginative Terraforming
3rd Place: Yewon Woo Reflections Between Worlds
Honorable Mention: Samuel Ceron Franco What If We Could Live On The Moon
Honorable Mention: Dayla Philman What If Stars Are People Trying to Find Their Way
Honorable Mention: Isabelle Wang Awakening the Infinite
Honorable Mention: Sofia Jimenez Destination Home
Honorable Mention: Carmel Sela A View From Space
Honorable Mention: Nishka Sharma Droids Building Rovers on Mars