Guidelines
Jacobs and its evaluation committee are solely responsible for the evaluation and selection of challenge winners.
The submitted ideas shall not contain classified, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) or Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) data. Entrants must certify that all information used is taken from the public domain, generated by the team, or that the team has rights to any data utilized to prepare the proposal.
Entrants agree that Jacobs shall have the right to publicize the award, including photographs, video, and brief summaries of the idea.
Eligibility
Cash prizes are limited to US Citizens only. However, there are no citizenship requirements for Honorable Mentions.
Employees of Jacobs, NASA, and others who work on the Jacobs Space Exploration Group (JSEG) Engineering and Science Services Capability Augmentation (ESSCA) contract are not eligible to participate.
Prizes
This challenge will award three cash prizes as shown below which will be paid to the designated captain of the winning teams; distribution among the team participants is the responsibility of the team captain. Taxes will not be withheld; any tax obligation will be the responsibility of the winning team members.
First Place: $5,000
Second Place: $3,000
Third Place: $2,000
Timeline
Open to submissions: August 15, 2024
Initial proposal submission deadline: September 30, 2024 at 12 p.m. (CDT)
Finalists notified: October 11, 2024
Video Conferences with finalists: October 28 - November 8, 2024
Winners Announced: November 15, 2024