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Your competition is set in the future
Every Stellr competition drops students into a future history: a forecast world 20 to 35 years from now, with a client, a contract and a deadline. At a live Challenge or in a classroom Campaign, the job is the same — win the contract.
The 2027 school year
It is 2052.
A quarter-century of forecast history has turned spaceflight into a working solar economy, with a client that has the budget to build what comes next. Students read that history as their client’s memory: every requirement in the brief exists because of it.
Space · Mars
This year’s space competitions are set around Mars and its moons, Phobos and Deimos. Low gravity, fine dust, radiation and launch windows 26 months apart all shape the design.
Environmental · Earth
Running alongside, in the same year: the client’s long-term program to restore the home world. Same future history, same client — the brief is on Earth.
Four-year rotation
A new part of the solar system every year
Space competitions move outward one region per school year, each set further into the future.
- +20 yearsCislunar spaceEarth orbit and the Moon2030 school year · set in 2050
- +25 yearsThis yearMarsMars and its moons, Phobos and Deimos2027 school year · set in 2052
- +30 yearsThe inner solar systemMercury and Venus2028 school year · set in 2058
- +35 yearsThe outer solar systemThe asteroid belt and the gas giants2029 school year · set in 2064
Environmental competitions run every year, on Earth, in the same future — this year, 2052.
The cast
Who’s who in the future history
The client
A global agency funding humanity’s future, on Earth and across the solar system. It issues the Request for Proposal (RFP), sets the requirements, and its judges decide what a winning design looks like.
Your company
One of three rival engineering companies bidding for the same contract, each with its own history, strengths, weaknesses and finances. At a Challenge you’re placed in one on the day; in a Campaign, your group becomes one.
Subcontractors
Specialist firms that sell to every company: atmosphere processing, construction materials and more. You choose which to hire, set what they must deliver, and carry their cost in your budget.
Your role
Inside your company, students take professional roles — executives, department leads and engineers. You split the work, then pull it back together into one proposal.
The job
What you’ll do
Read the future history
The world your client remembers. Every requirement in the brief has a reason in it.
Get the brief
A Request for Proposal: what the client needs — never how to build it.
Organize your company
Choose leaders, split the requirements across departments, set your own deadlines.
Design and decide
Research, calculate and run trade studies. Choose your subcontractors and hold them to account.
Deliver the proposal
A live presentation to judges at a Challenge, or a written proposal in a Campaign.
Win the contract
Judges choose the winning company; mentors choose standout individuals for awards.
Then the awards. See what students can win.
Two ways in
Same future, same contract
In person
Live Challenge
One or two days at a venue near you
At school
Campaign
In class or as a club, on your schedule
Previous Competition Resource
2026 Space Design Challenge — Mission Handbook
5-page PDF · Stellr
Step into 2052
Register for a live Challenge, or run a Campaign with your class.