By Jim Plaxco
NSS Board of Administrators
The Nationwide House Society (NSS), in partnership with the SmallSat Training Convention, lately concluded one other profitable Roadmap to House Pupil Artwork Contest. The theme for this yr’s contest was “Our Future within the House Workforce” which challenged pupil artists, growing old in vary from 10 to 25, to ascertain a future the place humanity has expanded its presence past Earth and throughout our photo voltaic system.
The scholar individuals created a variety of futuristic and unique paintings that depicted their imaginative and prescient of humanity’s future life in area. The competition’s submissions have been extremely numerous and showcased a variety of inventive types and visions. Notably noteworthy have been the scholar’s concepts about our way forward for life on the area frontier. With visions starting from lunar ISRU to asteroid mining operations to Martian colonies and agricultural operations, the paintings explored all kinds of elements of attainable human exercise in area. Along with creating the paintings, college students have been required to supply a written description of the scene their paintings was illustrating in addition to offering a quick description of how the paintings was created.
The competition acquired a lot of great entries and our judges had a tough time in deciding on the successful artworks. Luckily the judges did have a level of latitude in awarding a number of First Prizes and Honorable Mentions. The successful artworks have been chosen based mostly on a mix of their creativity, technical talent, and adherence to the competition’s theme.
As a brand new element of this yr’s contest, NSS has created an e-book that particulars the competition’s operations, the prizes awarded to the winners, and extra commentary. As well as, the e-book highlights the Grand Prize paintings, the 7 First Prize artworks, and the 14 Honorable Mentions. It additionally consists of photos of all of the paintings that was formally accepted into the competition. Regrettably, a lot of submissions weren’t accepted as they failed to fulfill the competition’s submission guidelines.
The continued success of the Roadmap to House Pupil Artwork Contest demonstrates the enduring attraction of area exploration and the ability it has to function a supply of inventive and academic inspiration to college students world wide. The 2025 Roadmap to House Pupil Artwork Contest will open someday in August of 2025 and can function an extended open submission interval.
The successful paintings might be seen on-line within the 2024 NSS Roadmap to House Artwork Contest Winners artwork gallery.
The competition’s guidelines, pointers, and record of prizes might be seen at 2024 NSS Roadmap to House Pupil Artwork Contest.
The 53 web page e-book in PDF format is right here: Our Future within the House Workforce: The 2024 NSS Roadmap to House Pupil Artwork Contest.
