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Start your Moon Camp project

Create a team

Bring together a team of students to create a space habitat for the astronauts of the future.  

Develop your project

Be creative! You can explore the Moon or other places in the Solar System and decide which tools you want to use.

Submit your project

The deadline for submissions is 28 April 2025. Submit your project to receive a participation certificate. All projects will be published in the Moon Camp Gallery.

Join the final online event

A final online event with an ESA astronaut open to all the participants will take place in May or June 2025. 

About Moon Camp

To join Moon Camp your team has to create a habitat for human space exploration.

In the future, to enable astronauts to stay on the Moon or other planets 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.

Moon Camp has a open format. Your team can explore the Moon but also venture further into other locations in our Solar System. For some suggestions and extra information about planets and moons in our Solar System visit the Choose your Space Location page. 

Your team’s project can also be submitted in any format you prefer, and be created using different tools and techniques.  These projects can range from scientific experiments, artistic or hands-on projects, design of space infrastructures, 3D printing models, virtual or augmented reality worlds and much more. For some suggestions of tools and techniques visit the Choose your Design Tool page. 

Are you a teacher and curious about how you could potentially fit Moon Camp into your curriculum? Visit the Moon Camp in the Curriculum page to discover examples of projects for different school subjects.

Submit a project

Fast Facts

Level: beginners to advanced, your team chooses how complex the project will be

 Age range: up to (and including) 19 years old

 Language: language of their choice

 Submission format: short description of the project, including supporting elements such as images, or a video, or a 3D design object.

 Registrations: open from 10 September 2024 to 28 April 2025 (23:59 CEST).

 Mid-year online event with a space expert: January or February 2025, open to all interested students and teachers.

 Final online event with an astronaut: May or June 2025, open to all the participants that submitted a project.

  Submitted projects are published in the Project Gallery.

 Certificates: All teams will receive a participation certificate once the project is published in the project gallery.

Timeline

Moon Camp opens for
submissions
10 September 2024

Create a plan of action for your team and develop your Moon Camp project.

Mid-year online event with
a space expert
February 2025

Join the online keynote talk where an ESA space expert will share their insight on living on the Moon and beyond.

Deadline for
submissions
28 April 2025

Make sure you submit your projects before the deadline!


Certificates of participation will be sent and all valid projects will be uploaded to the Moon Camp gallery.

Final online event
with an astronaut
May / June 2025

Join the livestream with an ESA astronaut. The final online event is open to all the participants that submitted a valid project

How to submit a project

1. Create a user account to submit your project on the Moon Camp platform.

2. Submit your project by 28 April 2025 latest. Submissions must include:

    • A short paragraph description of the project written in their preferred language.
    • At least one image or screen capture of the project.
    • Optionally, the team may submit a link to an article, website, paper and/or Youtube video that they have created about the project.


3. Once submitted you will receive a confirmation email. Once the submission has been approved by ESA, it will be published in the online gallery and you will receive an email with the certificates.

  • By submitting the project, the participants agree that their project will be shared on the Moon Camp platform. 
  • The team must be the sole author/owner of the project and all materials submitted to Moon Camp. Projects sponsored or funded by third parties may not be used. It is not allowed to use copyrighted material and no third party (including your school or project sponsors) should have any rights to materials you submit.
  • ESA, at their sole discretion, reserves the right to disqualify submissions that do not follow the guidelines, or that contain messages that are deemed inappropriate or inadequate for the audience.

Eligibility

  • To participate in Moon Camp Challenge teams should be supported by a teacher, educator or parent. The project must be submitted by the teacher, educator or parent.
  • Participation in the Moon Camp Challenge is open worldwide* to teams of students aged up to 19 years old.
  • There is no limit to the number of teams a parent, teacher or educator and school or club can enter.
  • Students attending a postsecondary/tertiary institution are not eligible to participate

* Moon Camp is open worldwide. In the framework of the current collaboration agreement between ESA and Airbus Foundation, if you apply from an ESA Member State, Slovakia, Slovenia, Canada, Lithuania or Latvia your team will have to fulfil the following extra conditions:

  • At least 50% of team members must be citizens of an ESA Member State, Slovakia, Slovenia, Canada, Lithuania or Latvia.
  • Each team member must be:
    • Enrolled in a full time primary or secondary school located in an ESA Member State, Slovakia, Slovenia, Canada, Lithuania or Latvia
    • or, be home-schooled (certified by the National Ministry of Education or delegated authority in an ESA Member State, Slovakia, Slovenia, Canada, Lithuania or Latvia)
    • or, be a member of a club or after-school group, such as Science Club, Scouts or the like.

 

Submission rules

  • Moon Camp has an open format meaning that you can choose how to create your project.
  • All teams that submit a compliant project within the deadline will receive a participation certificate.
  • Submissions that could be interpreted as being of an illegal, political, or sensitive nature are not permitted.
  • Submissions that reference unpleasantness or harm to another person are not permitted.
  • Submissions that contain obscene images are not permitted.
  • Do not include any personal data such as names, faces and email addresses in your project description.
  • Do not use copyrighted materials owned by others without permission.

Continue your project

1) Learn more about Moon Camp

Learn more about the project and guidelines

2) How to fit Moon Camp in the curriculum?

Includes examples for teachers who want to implement Moon Camp in the curriculum

3) Choose your space location

Decide where your habitat is going to be located in the Solar System

4) Choose your design tools and techniques

Decide how you would like to create and build your space habitat

5) Access classroom resources and materials

Learn more about the space environment and available tutorials, teacher guides and multimedia

6) Get inspired by other teams

Get inspired with these amazing projects designed by teams from all over the world.

Questions?

For any questions, consult the FAQ section or send an email to moon.camp@esa.int