IAA Humans in Space Symposium Youth Art Competition

I am pleased to announce the opening of the International Academy of Astronautics Humans in Space Symposium Youth Art Competition! Please learn about the Competition by visiting www.humansinspaceart.org . You can also use a more direct link http://www.dsls.usra.edu/meetings/IAA/artContest/ to the competition.

This online competition invites children aged 10-17 years old to express what they think about the future of human space exploration via literary, visual, musical or video art. Artists’ entries must be received by September 30, 2010 in order to participate in the competition. The winners will have their art displayed in an online gallery and will be invited to attend the Humans in Space Symposium in Houston, TX in April 2011. Please tell any youth who might be interested about the Art Competition and encourage them to submit an entry!

Also, as you know, the competition must be very well advertised worldwide, or it will not be a success. Thus, if you don’t mind, please email out the competition website link to all education groups, schools, space-associated entities, youth organizations, arts groups, businesses, community groups, etc. Please also forward the attached flyer, either as is or after adapting it to be more suitable for your local environment, so that people receiving your email can have a printable announcement to put up on bulletin boards or to hand distribute. Please feel free to also print out flyers yourselves to manually distribute or post for display.

Thank you in advance for your effort to advertise the Art Competition. I sincerely hope that we will have youth participating from around the world in this competition.

Jancy C. McPhee, Ph.D.
Associate Program Scientist
Human Research Program
NASA-Johnson Space Center/USRA