At the University of Toronto Space Design Contest, you won’t only meet people who love space as much as you do; you will meet people who actually live the dream! This is the perfect opportunity for high school students like you to interact with real space professionals - people who build satellites, plan missions, and make the decisions.

As participants of the University of Toronto Space Design Contest, you don’t crunch numbers or recite the periodic table. The math and science you do with us have real, creative, and more challenging applications - like keeping spaceships in the sky, or building a base on the moon.

The University of Toronto Space Design Contest lets you put those dreams to good use. Whether you are designing a space station or starship, you will have to rely on your creativity and ingenuity to dream up new solutions to challenging new problems.

Join the University of Toronto Space Design Contest and embark early on your exciting journey. Tour Canada’s leading aerospace institutions, play the role of real engineers in designing solutions for interesting problems, and then find out how well you’ve done through feedback from real industrial professionals. It’s a lesson you don’t want to miss.

Think your ideas are unbeatable? Well, this is the event where you can prove yourself to people as bright as you. The University of Toronto Space Design Contest brings together brilliant minds from all over Canada and around the world, so get inspired. It’s not just a competition, it’s an experience that may change you forever.

The University of Toronto Space Design Contest, or UTSDC for short, is an annual contest for high school students. You and your team will compete by developing an innovative proposal for the design, construction and operation of a particular space related project. You will be asked to first submit a report for review by UTSDC, and then in May, you will have the opportunity to present your design at the Design Fair and Conference.

The Design Fair and Conference consists of four days and three nights you’ll spend on the University of Toronto St. George campus. You will have the opportunity to tour aerospace facilities in Toronto, hear talks from researchers at the university and in the aerospace industry, meet individuals from a variety of fields in Space Research and Engineering, and make new friends who share your energy and enthusiasm about space and science. It’s really a lot of fun! And of course, this is also where you show off your hard work and creativity in the forms of public displays and brief presentations to a panel of judges. To fine out more about the design fair and conference, click here for overview for the UTSDC 2009-2010.

This contest aims at allowing high school students like you to be exposed to real-world engineering, to exercise their creativity and technical knowledge, while developing teamwork, management abilities, and presentation skills. Therefore, smaller workshops and seminars will be run throughout the year to give you an ongoing learning experience.

Why wait? Hurry up and join now through our registration page!

In the UTSDC Design Contest, you will get to design the first emergency response system. But the UTSDC is more than a contest; it's an experience. You will meet individuals from a variety of fields in Space Research and Engineering and visit the places where it all takes place.Throughout the year, you will hear presentations from researchers at the University and in the aerospace industry. At the design fair and conference, you will stay at the University of Toronto, touring our aerospace facilities and the campus itself. Between these activities and presenting your projects at a design fair, we wive also got social activities lined up - after all, you will be meeting space interested youth from across Ontario.

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