Max Polyakov Supports International Student Space Competition

The Space Foundation Partners With Max Polyakov to Support International Student Art Competition

Space Foundation, a non-profit company based in Colorado, USA, has agreed to partner with Max Polyakov and his investment firm Noosphere for three years. The deal involves Noosphere providing financial support to international science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) competition focused on the space industry.

What Is the Space Foundation’s International Art Competition?

Students from all over the world, aged 3 to 18, are invited to submit their space-themed artworks online at the Space Foundation’s site. This competition takes place for 10 years now and features contestants from many different countries, including the USA, Japan, UAE, China, Malaysia, and India. Each year the best 25 artwork are chosen, among which then the winners, second and third places are selected. The winners of the art competitions will receive the coveted Space Foundation Achievement Award. Competition is expected to be stiff,  with the Space Foundation predicting hundreds of entries.

Everyone is welcome to join the competition, and submission is free. Parents, guardians, and teachers are free to help the students submit their artworks via the online portal. 

How Does the Space Foundation’s Competition Enhance the Space Industry?

Noosphere is a strong believer in inspiring the youth and introducing them to STEM and space at an early age. Noosphere acknowledges that fun competitions like this one are a great way to inspire the next generation to become involved in the space industry. 

Sometimes traditional classroom introduction to science can easily turn children away from exploring it as a viable career path. However, creative competitions like the Space Foundation’s Art Contest can profoundly affect a child’s mind. Without young people, the space industry can not progress as they represent tomorrow’s inventors, entrepreneurs, scientists, and even astronauts. 

This contest is also a great opportunity to combine the creativity of art and design with the technologies in a unique way that blends both disciplines together. Through the creative approach, problems can be looked at in a different light, which results in new solutions.

Max Polyakov is a big proponent of the human mind being the most valuable resource on Earth and understands that competitions like these are a way to develop and nurture this resource. He firmly believes that by ingraining love to space in young people and using their creativity, humanity will rise to new heights. 

This contest is a perfect breeding ground for the next generation of space enthusiasts. It blends artistic abilities with critical thinking skills all through a space-focused lens. The kids also get unprecedented access to the space industry. You never know, maybe this 2021 competition participants may be the next great space entrepreneurs!