Past Drop Tower Challenges and Competitions

While these drop tower challenges/competitions are no longer being offered, an overview of the design challenge, background information and selected schools are listed. Educators might want to use these competition in their classroom for discussion or for drop tower related activities.

 

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2023 Drop Tower Challenge

Winners of the 2023 DIVER challenge with Dr. Lisa Carnell, director of NASA’s Biological & Physical Sciences Division (BPS) in Washington, DC at the ...

2021 Drop Tower Challenge

Teams of grade 9-12 students are challenged to design and build simple devices using capillary flow (only) to eject water droplets as far as possible while ...

CELERE – Capillary Effects on Liquids Exploratory Research Experiments

An ISS Research Design Challenge CELERE is an educational program at NASA’s Glenn Research Center (GRC) enabling students to participate in microgravity ...

2020 Drop Tower Challenge

Paddle Wheel in Microgravity Teams of grade 9-12 students are challenged to design and build an experiment related to water motion that will be tested in a ...

2019 Drop Tower Challenge

Students will design and submit devices that carry water and air from a reservoir to a plant’s root.