Mars Lander Challenge Competition

Purpose:

The Mars Lander Challenge is a variation of Sport Scale minus the flight portion of judging. The purpose of this contest is to introduce fellow NAR members to your personal vision of what the next generation of Mars Landers would look like. Entries will be required to document the mission of their lander with a one page written description of the lander for all NARCON attendees to judge. Judging of the contest will be by a popular vote of the attendees on Saturday afternoon.

Exclusions:

Subjects excluded from this event:

·        Kit’s or models constructed by plans obtained from a third party are to be disqualified.

·        Models that are kit bashed using more than 50% of the parts from the original model are to be disqualified.

Substantiation Data:

Unlike Sport Scale, the contestant is to use his imagination to produce fictional data to substantiate the mission and fictional flight worthiness of the vehicle modeled. Data should be given in the one page written brief as to the vehicles’ mission on Mars, how the vehicle would be delivered to the Martian surface, and where the vehicle originated.

Flight:

There are no flight points to be scored for this event and any efforts made by the modeler to make their vehicle flight worthy are to be disregarded in the judging.

Scoring:

Scoring is to be deliberated by the NARCON 2006 attendees between the hours of 1 pm. To 4 pm. On Saturday, March 11, 2006. A tally of the popular voting for first, second, and third place entries will be counted and presented at the Saturday evening gathering before the keynote speaker address. Prizes are to be determined by the NARCON 2006 staff.