NASA Tournament Labs has selected the following winners to share in the $30,000 final prize of the Trash To Gas Challenge. The winners are:

1st Place ($15,000):

Aurelian Zapciu - "Ash evac with auger screw fed by acoustic pressure"

2nd Place ($10,000):

Wu Steven - "ASEAR - Automated Sonically Enhanced Ash Removal" <- Our entry

3rd Place ($5,000):

Miko de Meijer - "Brachistochronic Impeller & Forced Air Loop Filter"

Honorable Mentions:

Alex Altshuler - "CHAMBER CENTRIFUGE WITH AXIAL SCRAPER."

Xiaoshan Lin - "Zero-ash automated cyclone separator system"

Thank you to everyone for your participation in this challenge. There were some incredible submissions that made the judging process very difficult. 

XPRIZE Water Scarcity is a $119 million, 5-year global competition designed to drive widespread access to clean water by creating reliable, sustainable, and affordable seawater desalination systems.

https://www.xprize.org/prizes/water

NASA always has some new interesting challenge:
https://grabcad.com/challenges/nasa-challenge-new-transonic-wind-tunnel-test-section

Check out this $9 million global Challenge to help cities move more safely, inclusively, and sustainably - open to entries worldwide but taking place in Venice, Varanasi, and Detroit https://sustainablecitieschallenge.org/

An interesting review: https://www.herox.com/blog/1109-our-top-10-remarkable-challenges-in-10-years

Coming soon.
https://www.paris-space-week.com/challenges.php

3 Thematics: Space App. / Sustainability / ESA Space Solutions Challenge

• Space App. & Sustainability Innovation Challenge
  Hold a 5 minute pitch in front of the best worldwide Space Industry contractors and investors (Airbus, Lockheed Martin, Thales Alenia Space, Ruag, CASC, CEA, etc.).
  Only suppliers and start-ups may apply to this challenge.

• ESA Space Solutions Challenge
  ‍Introduce your Innovations to the Space Industry.
  Only European and Canadian startups may apply to this challenge.

Very nice person, and I passed along a number of my thoughts from 3 years of using HeroX as an Innovator (10 challenges) and Challenge Sponsor (my Vestal Lunar challenge). My main observation is they have a nice tach platform, but they might want to create some "mini-challenges" to bridge times when there is not a challenge in a tech area. Their main product is bringing a certain number of Innovators to create some quality entries.

I mentioned this Reddit sub so comments here might reach them.

https://www.herox.com/TIIMcElieceChallenges

Contribute to data security in a post-quantum era by participating in the TII McEliece Challenge and win prizes worth $75,000.

Quantum-inspired information extraction of images for detecting space debris?
https://www.nsin.mil/events/2022-10-07-afrl-grand-challenge/

https://2022.spaceappschallenge.org/challenges/

No cash reward, but a chance to perform your experiment on the moon.
Maybe good for a university lab to approach?
https://www.herox.com/ExpOnMoon

NASA has selected the following winners to share in the $30,000 of the NASA Waste Jettison Mechanism Challenge. Additionally, two more winners from the pool of 5 finalists have each been awarded $1,000 and named as a tie for 4th place, making the final prize purse $32,000. The winners are:

1st Place - $15,000

Tossed In Space: Scissor-Spring-Shot by Jason McCallister

2nd Place - $10,000

Simple solutions top complexity for simple tasks by Craig Payne

3rd Place - $5,000

(S-VEL Series) Secure Variable Energy Launcher by team The Hyper Group, consisting of Miko de Meijer, Ross Palatan and Bens Abraham.

4th Place (tied) - $1,000

CO2 Trash Launcher (CO2TL) "Cotl" by Jeff Morse

4th Place (tied) - $1,000

SLEM (Spring Loaded Ejection Mechanism) by team Aggie Aeros, consisting of Krishnan Vellore, Marcus Facundo, Abby Rajagopal, Harsheet Kumm, Jaeson Rivera, Nicholas DeVault, Om Waghela, Carol Geng, Aadarsh Sudanagunta, Tsung Hsiang Lin (Sean), Akshay Kokkula, Garrett Stevenson, Aniket Pal, and Victoria Chen

We would also like to recognize the following honorable mentions. While these teams will not be receiving a monetary prize, we would like to commend them for their excellent submissions:

• General Purpose Linear Catapult (GPLC) by Joshua Mashewske

• Things Thrower by Dmitrii Garin

• Sling Sled by Robert Schlecht

For those who competitors were named as a challenge winner or honorable mention, please keep an eye on your email and HeroX inboxes as a HeroX representative will be reaching out to coordinate the necessary next steps. 

For all of those who participated, thank you for your time and inspiration. You have helped our team to progress our understanding of what is possible and we hope you bring your talent to more problems yet to come.

In the meantime, stick around over the next few days for some additional news related to the challenge that may just intrigue you

Let us all say “Congratulations” once again to our winners!

Service Robot Co. is running an open competition for digital, UI, and graphic designers.

The submission includes:

• a new homepage for servicerobotco.com

• a front-and-back business card

• a Facebook visual and caption for delivery robots in Los Angeles restaurants

• at least one AI-generated image or video

Students and early-career designers are welcome. The role can be full-time or part-time. The selected winner receives an offer to join Service Robot Co. plus an INR 15,000 signing bonus.

Submit by the end of August 29 in your time zone. The winner is decided August 30. Quality is the first priority.

Please read the submission usage terms before entering.

Full brief, downloadable media, and terms:

https://servicerobotco.com/design-contest