DESIGN COMPETITIONS
Periodically, the NASTAR Center conducts student design contests. In late 2010, area students were invited to submit designs for a logo to represent NASTAR Center Education Programs. In 2009, students from around the world were invited to submit their patch designs for NASTAR’s Suborbital Scientist Training Program. Keep watching the NASTAR Center web site for future design contests.
NASTAR EDUCATION PROGRAMS PATCH
Client: Local Area Students
Date: Fall 2010
Area students were invited to submit concepts for a patch to represent NASTAR’s Education Programs. A particular emphasis was made to reach out to elementary school students. Fourth grade student Colin Roberts from Our Lady of Calvary Parish School in Northeast Philadelphia submitted the winning design. 
His original design for the triangular patch included the words “NASTAR Education” along the top and a view of the earth from space near the bottom corner. ETC Artist Christopher Snee substituted an icon of the earth in the shape of an apple (a widely recognized image representing education) to create the finished patch.
The NASTAR Center engages a wide range of students with opportunities like this by allowing students to express their creativity.
SUBORBITAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAM PATCH DESIGN
Client: Students, world wide
Date: December 2009
Students from around the world were invited to submit their patch designs for NASTAR’s Suborbital Scientist Training Program. The contest winner, Tatsuya Arai a student at MIT, said: “It is a great honor for my patch to have been selected as the official NASTAR scientist patch! The patch design consists of the earth (protons and neutrons) and flying spacecraft (electrons) to represent suborbital flights (and science).
The multiple spacecrafts in the logo represent the near reality of a continuous stream of suborbital flights”. The design was selected for its simplicity and the iconic integration of science and space in a format that remained consistent with previous NASTAR Center patches.
