NASA Invites Public To Vote On Optimus Prime Contest Student Videos

[NASA News <hqnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan. 19, 2011

Sonja Alexander 
Headquarters, Washington                                    
202-358-1761 
sonja.r.alexander@xxxxxxxx 

Rob Gutro 
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 
301-286-4044 
robert.j.gutro@xxxxxxxx 



RELEASE: 11-021

NASA INVITES PUBLIC TO VOTE ON OPTIMUS PRIME CONTEST STUDENT VIDEOS

GREENBELT, Md. -- NASA has opened online voting for the agency's 
OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Award student video contest. The public is 
invited to vote for its favorite videos, made by students in grades 
three through eight, developed to help educate America's youth about 
the benefits of NASA's technologies. 

NASA is using the correlation between Hasbro's TRANSFORMERS property 
and commercialized agency "spinoffs" to help students understand how 
technology developed for space and aeronautics "transforms" into what 
is used on Earth. 

More than 190 children from 31 states have submitted creative videos 
describing their favorite agency technology from NASA's 2009 Spinoff 
publication. The students also documented why their video should be 
selected to win the NASA OPTIMUS PRIME trophy. 

The public can vote for its favorite OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Award 
videos at: 



http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/optimus/voting.php 


The top five submissions from each of two groups (third through fifth 
and sixth through eighth grades) will advance for final judging. The 
voting process is open until Feb. 6. 

A panel of NASA judges will select the winners in each of the two 
grade categories. The winning students, associated spinoff companies 
and NASA innovators will be announced in February. 

In addition to the trophy, the winners will travel to Colorado 
Springs, Colo., for an award ceremony during the 27th National Space 
Symposium on April 12. 

NASA intends to make this an annual competition. Students can begin 
thinking about next year's competition by deciding which spinoffs 
they like best from NASA's recently-published Spinoff 2010. 

For more information about the NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Award, 
visit: 



http://ipp.gsfc.nasa.gov/optimus 


For more information about NASA spinoffs and technology transfer, 
visit: 



http://www.sti.nasa.gov/tto/ 


For more information about the 27th National Space Symposium, visit: 



http://www.nationalspacesymposium.org/ 


NASA's Office of the Chief Technologist is responsible for 
facilitating the transfer of technology from the space program to the 
marketplace 
and the American public. For more information about the Office of the 
Chief Technologist, visit: 



http://www.nasa.gov/oct 

	
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