Press Releases

Industrial Design Students Among 20 Winning Teams in NASA Design Challenge

A group of Industrial Design students from The Art Institute of Seattle recently won a design competition for NASA’s Asteroid Re-Direct Mission. The mission has an exciting goal—in 2020, NASA wants to capture an asteroid and bring it into an orbit around the moon. NASA held a national design competition, sourcing designs for three different components to be used in its upcoming Asteroid Redirect Mission. Twenty schools’ submissions were selected as winners in the design phase. 

Now, the Industrial Design students are tasked with building their prototypes. NASA provided financial assistance for material cost and each team has been assigned a NASA engineer to work with. 

After the prototype is built and tested Seattle, the students will fly to Houston the week of April 25 for prototype testing in NASA’s Neutral Buoyancy Lab. This is the same underwater tank where astronauts train for their missions.

The students are pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Design from The Art Institute of Seattle. Their faculty advisor is Zanetka Gawronski.

• Maddy Balmer
• Adrian Galvan
• Blake Maurer

Follow their progress on their Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/AiSeattleMicrogNext/

The Art Institute of Seattle is one of The Art Institutes, a system of over 50 schools throughout North America. Programs, credential levels, technology, and scheduling options vary by school and are subject to change. Not all online programs are available to residents of all U.S. states. Several institutions included in The Art Institutes system are campuses of South University or Argosy University. The Art Institute of Seattle, 2323 Elliott Avenue, Seattle, WA 98121-1642. © 2015 The Art Institutes.  All rights reserved. Our email address is materialsreview@aii.edu.

See ge.artinstitutes.edu/programoffering/1817 for program duration, tuition, fees, and other costs, median debt, salary data, alumni success, and other important info.

The Art Institute of Seattle is not responsible for the content or accuracy of any Web site linked to this Web site/newsletter. The links are provided for your information and convenience only. The Art Institute of Seattle does not endorse, support or sponsor the content of any linked Web sites. If you access or use any third party Web sites linked to The Art Institute of Seattle’s Web site, you do so at your own risk. The Art Institute of Seattle makes no representation or warranty that any other Web site is free from viruses, worms or other software that may have a destructive nature.