2025 NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge Audience: Educators and students in grades 6-12 and higher education Proposal Deadline: Sept. 19 Contact: HERC@mail.nasa.gov NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) is accepting proposals for its 2025 competition that will be held April 11-12, 2025, in Huntsville, Alabama. New for 2025, HERC will feature a remote-controlled rover division open to middle school, high school, and university student teams. These teams will construct rovers that will traverse challenging terrains, and specialty tools for completing simulated Artemis mission tasks. In the human-powered rover division, teams of high school and university students are challenged to design, build, test, and compete with human-powered rovers capable of traversing challenging terrains that simulate lunar and Martian surfaces. Click here to access the 2025 HERC Handbook for full competition details. |