Current HERC Teams
NASA selects student teams to begin a 9-month long engineering design challenge to build human-powered and remote-controlled rovers that will compete in April at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.
2025-2026 HERC Teams
Human Power Division – University
- Auburn University – Auburn, Alabama
- Bevill State Community College – Sumiton, Alabama
- Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani – Goa, India
- Campbell University – Buies Creek, North Carolina
- Instituto Tecnologico de Las Americas – La Caleta, Dominican Republic
- Instituto Tecnologico de Santo Domingo – Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
- Rhode Island School of Design – Providence, Rhode Island
- Southwestern Oklahoma State University – Weatherford, Oklahoma
- Texas A&M University – College Station, Texas
- Texas Tech University – Lubbock, Texas
- The University of Alabama in Huntsville – Huntsville, Alabama
- Trine University – Angola, Indiana
- Universidad Aeronautica en Queretaro – Coyote, Mexico
- Universidad de Monterrey – Nuevo Leon, Mexico
- University of Central Missouri – Warrensburg, Missouri
- University of Georgia – Athens, Georgia
- University of Puerto Rico Mayaguez – Mayaguez, Puerto Rico
- University of West Florida – Pensacola, Florida
- Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology – East Elmhurst, New York
Human Power Division – Middle/High School
- Academies at Englewood – Englewood, New Jersey
- Albertville Innovation Academy – Albertville, Alabama
- Bledsoe County High School – Pikeville, Tennessee
- Central Magnet School – Murfreesboro, Tennessee
- Debbie Smith CTE Academy – Reno, Nevada
- Erie High School – Erie, Colorado
- Escambia High School – Pensacola, Florida
- Fairhope High School – Fairhope, Alabama
- Kealakehe High School – Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
- Lake Minneola High School – Minneola, Florida
- Oxon Hill High School – Oxon Hill, Maryland
- Parish Episcopal School – Dallas, Texas
- Westwood High School – Austin, Texas
Remote-Control Division – University
- Alabama A&M University – Normal, Alabama
- Anne Arundel Community College – Arnold, Maryland
- ATLAS SkillTech University – Mumbai, India
- Campbell University – Buies Creek, North Carolina
- Florida Atlantic University – Boca Rotan, Florida
- Instituto Tenologico de Las Americas – La Caleta, Dominican Republic
- Queen’s University – Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- South Dakota State University – Brookings, South Dakota
- Southwestern Oklahoma State University – Warrensburg, Oklahoma
- The University of the District of Columbia – Washington, DC
- The University of Alabama in Huntsville – Huntsville, Alabama
- University of Florida – Gainsville, Florida
- University of West Florida – Pensacola, Florida
- Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology – East Elmhurst, New York
- Vellore Institute of Technology – Chennai, India
Remote-Control Division – Middle/High School
- Albertville Innovation Academy – Albertville, Alabama
- Bledsoe County High School – Pikeville, Tennessee
- Chaminade High School – Mineola, New York
- Erie High School – Erie, Colorado
- Gould Academy – Bethel, Maine
- Hewitt-Trussville High School – Trussville, Alabama
- Kealakehe High School – Kailua-Kona, Hawaii
- SoulPhamm – Plainfield, New Jersey
- Space and Engineering Technologies Academy – San Antonio, Texas
