NASA HUNCH Program
High school students United with NASA to Create Hardware or HUNCH is an innovative school-based program that partners NASA at Johnson Space Center, Marshall Space Fight Center, Langley Research Center, Goddard Space Flight Center, Glenn Research Center, Kennedy Space Center, and AMES Research Center with high schools in states across the nation. The partnership involves students fabricating real-world products for NASA as they apply their science, technology, engineering and mathematics skills as well as learning to work in teams and think creatively.
This NASA program is expanding and giving students opportunities to develop hardware for the International Space Station. Some hardware items are necessities that the astronaut crew has personally requested to help ease their living conditions while aboard the Space Station and other requests have come from Flight Crew Systems and Operational groups at NASA. It is really a wonderful time to be a part of such a great program!
This website should be used as a "one stop shop" that will help in your development phases of your projects. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with your NASA Mentor should you have any questions.
Also, keep in mind that this website is a "living" website were new information may be posted, so check back regularly
Program Changes for this year: There will be a preliminary Design Review, Critical Design review and then a Final Design Review in Houston for the Top 3 teams per project area around the country
Preliminary Review: Held November/December time frame (Regional Reviews)
Critical Design Review: Held February/early March time frame (Regional Reviews)
Final Design Review for Top Teams: April time frame (Johnson Space Center)
Contact your NASA Mentor for Timeline information if not posted on the site. See the Expectations page to understand what is expected at each of the reviews.
This year we will be trying to help each other connect through social media, so if you are working on your projects and have pictures/videos you can use the following #hunchdesign2017 to share
This NASA program is expanding and giving students opportunities to develop hardware for the International Space Station. Some hardware items are necessities that the astronaut crew has personally requested to help ease their living conditions while aboard the Space Station and other requests have come from Flight Crew Systems and Operational groups at NASA. It is really a wonderful time to be a part of such a great program!
This website should be used as a "one stop shop" that will help in your development phases of your projects. Please don't hesitate to get in touch with your NASA Mentor should you have any questions.
Also, keep in mind that this website is a "living" website were new information may be posted, so check back regularly
Program Changes for this year: There will be a preliminary Design Review, Critical Design review and then a Final Design Review in Houston for the Top 3 teams per project area around the country
Preliminary Review: Held November/December time frame (Regional Reviews)
Critical Design Review: Held February/early March time frame (Regional Reviews)
Final Design Review for Top Teams: April time frame (Johnson Space Center)
Contact your NASA Mentor for Timeline information if not posted on the site. See the Expectations page to understand what is expected at each of the reviews.
This year we will be trying to help each other connect through social media, so if you are working on your projects and have pictures/videos you can use the following #hunchdesign2017 to share
