Participation Rewards
We offer inspiring benefits and great rewards for all Participants of the NASA Space Apps Cambridge 2024!
Rewards for Participation
Every Participant who successfully completes and submits their Team Project to the NASA Space Apps Challenge Cambridge 2024, will receive the following rewards:
Local Community: Complimentary membership in NASA Space Apps Cambridge community (bringing together like-minded creators/innovators/educators/pioneers across Cambridge, Greater Boston, and New England)
Global Community: Complimentary membership in the NASA Global Space Apps community
Printed Certificate of Achievement from NASA Space Apps Cambridge (customized, signed, frameable)
Digital Certificate of Achievement from NASA Space Apps Cambridge (customized digital card for social media)
Exclusive NASA Space Apps Cambridge hoodie (customized for your hoodie size!)
Exclusive NASA Space Apps Cambridge gym bag/tote
Exclusive NASA Space Apps Cambridge embroidered badge
Goody bag with additional gifts & rewards from Sponsors & Partners
Official Letter/Announcement: We will issue an official letter to your school/company/organization notifying them of your successful participation.
Social Media: Promotion/Profile of your Team and project on all NASA Space Apps Cambridge Social Media
Media: You will be included in Special Press Release/Media Advisory for media publications in your academic institution, Greater Boston Metropolitan Area, New England, and Northeast
PLUS
Rewards beyond the NASA Space Apps Cambridge event
Mentorship & Career Connections into 2025: Participants of NASA Space Space Apps Cambridge will also be the Inaugural Cohort Group participating in the NASA Space Apps Cambridge community and the Space & Earth Alliance’s Mentoring & Career Connections Program (which continues into June 2025).
Complimentary Registration to participate in the exciting Global Summit & Career Fair (Winter Term/January 2025) of the Humansphere Foundation and Space & Earth Alliance (ticket value $100-$250)
Complimentary Virtual Booth/Presence for your Team & Team Project at the Global Summit & Career Fair of the Humansphere Foundation and Space & Earth Alliance (booth/presence value $250-$1,000)
Exclusive event invitations: Invitations to exclusive monthly speaker events/socials/community gatherings (live and virtual) by NASA Space Apps Cambridge and the Humansphere Foundation’s Space & Earth Alliance, into 2025
Benefits of Joining
The 7Cs of NASA Space Apps Cambridge: If you join us at NASA Space Apps Cambridge, you will enjoy these 7 inspiring benefits - on top of the rewards!
Cool Project for NASA
If you ever wanted to connect with NASA and become part of NASA, now is your chance! Spend a weekend with friends brainstorming, ideating, creating solutions and applying your ideas for one of NASA’s 2024 Global Challenges! In the end, you will have a cool project for NASA that you can showcase on your portfolio/CV - and will become part of our NASA Global & Local communities!
Community
By joining the world’s largest annual hackathon/creathon - you become part of a vibrant global community virtually, and a dynamic, innovative local community in Cambridge, Greater Boston, and the surrounding cities and towns of New England.
Connections
Find inspiring connections, make new contacts, and discover new friends, among peers, and among the inspiring innovators, industry leaders, creators, educators, investors who are participating as Mentors, Jurists, Speakers, and Luminaries at our events/summits.
Career Opportunities & Advancement
Create new career advancement opportunities. Discover and connect with potential mentors, advisors, employers, business partners, collaborators and investors, by joining our global and local Space Apps communities!
Collaboration
Bring together a team of friends and/or colleagues you enjoy collaborating with. Spend a weekend together working on your cool project for NASA. Showcase your NASA Team Project at your school or work or community - let your product of your collaboration shine through!
Create & Innovate
The acts of creation and innovation are empowering and inspiring experiences. Participate in creating and innovating to address NASA’s Global Challenges! Showcase your NASA Team Project at your school or work. Inspire others!
Celebrate
Join us and let NASA Space Apps Cambridge celebrate you!
Upon completion and submission of your Project for NASA Global Space Apps Challenge, you will be inducted into a Global and Local community of like-minded peers and leaders - all innovators, educators, creators, artists, scientists, technologists, policy makers - who seek to use talents and skills to solve challenges in our world and beyond!
Our community will celebrate you - we will honor you, your team, and your work at our Awards Ceremonies with Certificates of Achievement and other rewards, and we will honor Local Winners with NASA Space Apps Cambridge Awards and many additional rewards beyond this event!
"We cannot solve a problem by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” — Albert Einstein
“I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we’re challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.” — Rachel Carson