In the future, to enable astronauts to stay on the Moon for long periods of time, new infrastructures must be developed to overcome important challenges. Such challenges include protection from radiation and meteorites, energy production, the extraction and recycling of water, food production and much more. The Moon Camp Challenge invites students to explore the Moon and decode some of the complexities future astronauts may face.

In Moon Camp Discovery each team’s mission is to 3D design only one component of a Moon Camp using Tinkercad. Teams can choose to design a:

– Lunar lander

– Moon Base

– Lunar rover

– Rocket

– Lunar Orbital Space Station

The design should be adapted to the Moon environment and if possible consider the use of local resources, provide protection and/or living and working facilities for the astronauts.

Moon Camp Discovery is a non-competitive mission for beginners. All teams that submit an entry that complies with the guidelines will receive a participation certificate and their project will be shared on the Moon Camp online platform.

Who can participate?

Participation is open worldwide to students aged up to 19 years old. Moon Camp Discovery is recommended for students aged 6 to 14 years old. Participating students must be supported by a teacher, educator or parent.

Discovery Projects Gallery 2020-2021

Below you can find some of the Moon Camp Discovery projects. For more projects visit the Moon Camp Discovery project gallery.

Team: AMY 5AA

Bruxelles    Belgium Category: Moon base
External link for Tinkercad 3D design

Our project is to create a lunar base on the moon in 3D, at the beginning we had to do some research to know more about the construction of a lunar base and what were the main things to have in a base, then we made two groups the first one had to choose the location of the base and how to have electricity and the second one had to look for with which materials can we create this base how to have air, how to have food and to drink. At the end we all put in common and we found what were the most efficient ways. Each one of us had to do his part of the work, we made different structures, there was a living place (a room, a living room, a kitchen), a water plant and another of oxygen, solar panels, a laboratory, a garage, a well and a control room.

Then we drew a plan in group by placing the different buildings strategically and we dimensioned them. Then we divided each part of the plan for each student so that they could work on their own.

And finally we joined each part of the plan to have just one plan.

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