Competition Process
Develop your own regolith concrete mixture and design your lunar habitat! The lunar surface is covered with a fine-grained rocky material called regolith. We can use this material to help build the infrastructure needed for future missions. This process is called In Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU). In this challenge, you will get hands-on with a lunar regolith simulant engineered in the lab to mimic the properties of regolith found on the Moon. A Program Guide walks you through a series of activities to learn about the properties of lunar regolith, use it to develop a concrete mixture, test your concrete's strength, and use what you have learned to design a lunar habitat for future long-duration missions to the surface of the Moon!Judging Criteria
Rubric provided in the Project Guide on Page 18. For each photo or file that you upload, please label it in the following manner to help the BTMC keep all files sorted: TeamName.State.PhotoMidpoint1, or TeamName.State.PhotoMidpoint2, or TeamName.State.concretedevelopment etc. Example:- If my team, who are the Buccaneers, was turning in a photo of what we have been working on we would label it as: Buccaneers.NM.PhotoMidpoint1
- If my team was turning in a 1-2 page document with the recipes that we used for our bricks, we would label it as: Buccaneers.NM.Recipe Document
Awards & Recognition
Best In Show-Middle School
This award counts toward these ICS Academic Badges.
The Aerospace badge is awarded to students who earn recognition in competitions that demonstrate their ability to apply science, engineering, and innovation to the challenges of flight and space exploration. The badge includes recognition from aerospace competitions covering lunar and planetary science, space systems engineering, mission concept development, and the commercialization of aerospace technology. Associated skills: Apply knowledge of the space environment to engineering and science problems; use in-situ resources to overcome mission constraints; conduct and document experiments relevant to human space exploration; translate aerospace research and technology into real-world applications.
Best In Show-High School
This award counts toward these ICS Academic Badges.
The Aerospace badge is awarded to students who earn recognition in competitions that demonstrate their ability to apply science, engineering, and innovation to the challenges of flight and space exploration. The badge includes recognition from aerospace competitions covering lunar and planetary science, space systems engineering, mission concept development, and the commercialization of aerospace technology. Associated skills: Apply knowledge of the space environment to engineering and science problems; use in-situ resources to overcome mission constraints; conduct and document experiments relevant to human space exploration; translate aerospace research and technology into real-world applications.
Finalist
This award counts toward these ICS Academic Badges.
The Aerospace badge is awarded to students who earn recognition in competitions that demonstrate their ability to apply science, engineering, and innovation to the challenges of flight and space exploration. The badge includes recognition from aerospace competitions covering lunar and planetary science, space systems engineering, mission concept development, and the commercialization of aerospace technology. Associated skills: Apply knowledge of the space environment to engineering and science problems; use in-situ resources to overcome mission constraints; conduct and document experiments relevant to human space exploration; translate aerospace research and technology into real-world applications.
Semi-Finalist
This award counts toward these ICS Academic Badges.
The Aerospace badge is awarded to students who earn recognition in competitions that demonstrate their ability to apply science, engineering, and innovation to the challenges of flight and space exploration. The badge includes recognition from aerospace competitions covering lunar and planetary science, space systems engineering, mission concept development, and the commercialization of aerospace technology. Associated skills: Apply knowledge of the space environment to engineering and science problems; use in-situ resources to overcome mission constraints; conduct and document experiments relevant to human space exploration; translate aerospace research and technology into real-world applications.
Participate
Website: https://btmc.competitionsciences.org/
Managing Organization: Institute of Competition Sciences
Middle School & High School teams from across the globe are welcome to participate and will be judged & awarded according to their age division.