Celebrating the 2008-2009 Conrad Challenge Award Winning Teams
The Conrad Challenge Innovation Summit brought student innovators from around the world to showcase bold ideas, entrepreneurial thinking, and STEM-driven solutions to some of today’s most pressing global challenges.
Spirit of Innovation | Personal Space Flight
1st Place
Final Frontier Apparel
The X-Suit, a state-of-the art mechanical counter pressure space suit filled with electro-muscle stimulation to keep the astronaut’s muscles, bones, blood vessels, and nerve cells in top condition.
2nd Place
Gadget
An aeroponic plant growing system that can be used for agricultural ventures into many types of locations including space station environments, the moon and on Earth.
Spirit of Innovation | Lunar Exploration
1st Place
ALGAE
A bioreactor that will bring oxygen producing algae to the surface of the moon.
2nd Place
We Miss Pluto
A Helium-3 Excavator (HEX) and lunar rover designed to extract helium-3from the lunar regolith, store it, and ready it for transportation back to Earth.
3rd Place
MAST
A solar powered rail gun designed to launch space-bound payloads past the Earth Departure Stage (EDS), through to the Low Earth Orbit, (LEO) stage of launch.
Spirit of Innovation | Renewable Energy
1st Place
Harwell Arsturas Labs
A novel device to convert thermal energy into electrical energy, with high efficiency and no moving parts.
2nd Place
BioH
A bioreactor system that uses genetically modified bacteria to produce electricity using a hydrogen fuel cell, and a battery to store the electricity.
3rd Place
DCs Army
A stationary bike that generates electricity, which is then used to power the heat and showers in a gym.
