UW TEAM SOARS TO GRAND PRIZE IN NASA CONTEST.(NEWS)

From: The Capital Times | Date: May 10, 2008 | Copyright information

A team from the University of Wisconsin-Madison earned grand prize honors in the 2008 NASA Means Business competition in Houston, Texas.

The annual competition, sponsored by NASA and the Coalition for Space Exploration, enlists college students to help NASA with promotional ideas. This year, participating teams were challenged to develop a program to help NASA share the innovation and technologies it creates to spur developments in research and commerce. The goal was to increase ...

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