NASA is kicking off its second annual NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Video Contest to raise student awareness of how NASA technologies provide benefits to the public. Registration for the contest is open until January 3, 2012.The NASA OPTIMUS PRIME Spinoff Video Contest emphasizes the similarities between the popular OPTIMUS PRIME character from Hasbro's TRANSFORMERS brand and NASA technologies now being used back on Earth.
Last year’s contest brought video submissions from over 190 students in grades 3–8, from 31 states, describing their favorite story from NASA's 2009 Spinoff publication. This year’s contest will feature stories from NASA's 2010 Spinoff publication and will be expanded to allow students in grades 9–12 to participate.
"The level of skill, effort and comprehension demonstrated by last year’s contestants was truly amazing," said Nona Cheeks, head of the Goddard Space Flight Center's Innovative Partnerships Office, which administers the contest for the Agency. "However, this year we are opening the contest up to include high school students, and we fully expect the videos sent in by that group to take the contest to a whole new level." Additional changes for the 2011 contest include transitioning the awards ceremony to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida and some exciting new prizes to be announced in December.
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