Empower Future Innovators:
Join the AVA Challenge as a Sponsor
Entering it’s 4th year, the AVA challenge brings together over 12,000 students from across Australia to complete a 9-step STEM design sprint based on challenges facing NASA’s Artemis and the Australian space industry.
In 2024, AVA teams will choose from a set of five scenarios and design a solution presented in the form of either a 90-second video pitch or poster. Finalist teams will then be selected to pitch their ideas in Sydney.
Scenarios
- Earth Observation
- Robotics Trailblazer
- Home on the Moon
- Growing Food in Space
- AI in Space
Build career pathways
Your support as a sponsor helps students identify real career opportunities in the Australian space industry plus offers you an opportunity to identify and nurture talent following the challenge.
AVA Sponsor Packages
These fund & grow the national Australian Virtual Astronaut Challenge to reach 300+ schools and over 12,000 students across Australia.
AVA Sponsorships
Missions to Space Sponsor Packages
These are extension missions to take students on real space missions in collaboration with Magnitude.io and Robinson Aerospace Systems
Global Astronaut Challenge ISS Sponsorship
Mission to the Moon 2026 to 2028 Sponsorship
- Robinson Aerospace Systems – Earth Orbit Testing 2026
– $202K to $336K USD - Robinson Aerospace Systems – To the Moon 2028
– $437K to $605K USD
“It was so different from what students had been exposed to. The student workbooks were fantastic and provided a pacing guide each week.” – Teacher feedback
“I loved the challenge and how it pushed me” – Student feedback
National Sponsor
– $60K
- High visibility (in 2023, AVA reached over 300 schools & 12,000 students across Australia).
- Specific content created around your organisation for students to study as part of the challenge.
- Live webinar speaking opportunities.
- Access to impact & demographic data metrics.
- Top-tier logo placement on all event-related materials, including banners, posters, flyers, and digital media.
- Display of your logo and name on the event website, with direct links to your website.
- High visibility in all event press releases and media coverage.
- Opportunities to engage directly with participants at the finalist event with a booth and speaking opportunities.
- Opportunities to participate in the finalist judging.
- Option to include promotional materials in participant packages.
- Opportunities to place finalists & winners in your organisation
Your support will fund the overall challenge plus support the final pitch challenge judging, pitch event, the final pitch challenge event and the winner’s package for students & teachers.
State/Territory Sponsor
– $30K (up to 5 States & 2 Territories)
- High visibility (in 2023, AVA reached over 300 schools & 12,000 students across Australia).
- Live webinar speaking opportunities.
- Access to impact & demographic data metrics.
- Logo placement on all event-related materials, including banners, posters, flyers, and digital media.
- Display of your logo and name on the event website, with direct links to your website.
- High visibility in all event press releases and media coverage.
- Opportunities to engage directly with participants at the finalist event with a booth and speaking opportunities.
- Opportunities to participate in the finalist judging.
- Option to include promotional materials in participant packages.
- Opportunities to place finalists & winners in your organisation
Your support will fund the overall challenge plus support the winner’s package for students & teachers.
CONTACT US
For more information please contact us directly via:
Email: support@fizzicseducation.com.au
Scenario Sponsor
This funds the development of specific content
– $10K per scenario
Specific content created around your organisation for each challenge sponsored.
Choose from the following scenarios:
>Earth Observation
>Robotics Trailblazer
>Home on the Moon
> Growing Food in Space
> AI in Space
This special category also comes with sponsorship benefits too:
- High visibility (in 2023, AVA reached over 300 schools & 12,000 students across Australia).
- Live webinar speaking opportunities.
- Access to impact & demographic data metrics.
- Logo placement on all event-related materials, including banners, posters, flyers, and digital media.
- Display of your logo and name on the event website, with direct links to your website.
- High visibility in all event press releases and media coverage.
- Opportunities to engage directly with participants at the finalist event with a booth and speaking opportunities.
- Opportunities to participate in the finalist judging.
- Option to include promotional materials in participant packages.
- Opportunities to place finalists & winners in your organisation
Your support will fund the development of the scenario challenges plus contribute to the winner’s package for students & teachers.
School Workshop Sponsor
This funds in-school programs in Australia
– Dependent on your capacity
Hands-on workshops for high school and primary schools delivered in conjunction with Fizzics Education.
Options
- Sydney & Melbourne Metropolitan face-to-face delivery at $1.1K per day
West Melbourne & Western Sydney school visits are now funded by AWS InCommunities. Other suburbs in these cities are still available.
- NSW, ACT & VIC face-to-face delivery at $6.6K per week (3 days in school, 2 days travel)
- SA, WA, QLD, NT, TAS face-to-face delivery at $8.8K per week (3 days in school, 2 days travel)
This special category also comes with sponsorship benefits too:
- High visibility (in 2023, AVA reached over 300 schools & 12,000 students across Australia).
- Live webinar speaking opportunities.
- Access to impact & demographic data metrics.
- Logo placement on all event-related materials, including banners, posters, flyers, and digital media.
- Display of your logo and name on the event website, with direct links to your website.
- High visibility in all event press releases and media coverage.
- Opportunities to engage directly with participants at the finalist event with a booth and speaking opportunities.
- Opportunities to participate in the finalist judging.
- Option to include promotional materials in participant packages.
- Opportunities to place finalists & winners in your organisation
Your support will fund the face-to-face delivery & administration of in-school programs in Australia.
CONTACT US
For more information please contact us directly via:
Email: support@fizzicseducation.com.au
Global Astronaut Challenge (EXPLORE) Sponsor
This funds a mission to space + global challenge
– $200K to $500K USD
Delivered in conjunction with Magnitude.io and will build the AVA Challenge into the Global Astronaut Challenge. The EXperimental Platform for Learning and Orbital Research in Education (EXPLORE), is an external CubeSat leveraging ISS power, data, and orbit. With a flight heritage of 10 missions with 2 missions scheduled in 2024, Magnitude extends the ExoLab into the AVA Challenge.
Milestones:
This space mission will launch in 2026 for the design phase occurring in 2024 followed by ground trials in 2025 for the winning school experimental design plus face-to-face mentoring for the finalist schools for ground trials.
This special category also comes with sponsorship too:
- Sponsor’s logo on the side of the experiment, seen clearly when being loaded onto the ISS and when displayed following the mission
- High visibility in all global materials as well as in Australia (in 2023, AVA reached over 300 schools & 12,000 students across Australia).
- Specific content created around your organisation for students to study as part of the challenge.
- Live webinar speaking opportunities.
- Access to impact & demographic data metrics.
- Top-tier logo placement on all event-related materials, including banners, posters, flyers, and digital media.
- Display of your logo and name on the event website, with direct links to your website.
- High visibility in all event press releases and media coverage.
- Opportunities to engage directly with participants at the finalist event with a booth and speaking opportunities.
- Opportunities to participate in the finalist judging.
- Option to include promotional materials in participant packages.
- Opportunities to place finalists & winners in your organisation
Your support will fund the overall Global Astronaut Challenge, the design & outreach phase for 2024, ground trials & outreach in 2025, the 2026 mission to space inclusive pre-launch logistics, payload verification, launch, on-station experiment support & post mission scientific work & school engagement. This funding also supports the Global Astronaut Challenge pitch challenge judging, pitch event, finalist mentoring and the winner’s package for students & teachers.
CONTACT US
For more information please contact us directly via:
Email: support@fizzicseducation.com.au
Mission to the Moon 2026 – 2028 Sponsor
This funds a Mission to the Moon
- Robinson Aerospace Systems – Earth Orbit Testing 2026
– Interstellar tier: $202K USD
– HEO tier: $67K USD (X1)
– LEO tier: $17K USD (X4) - Robinson Aerospace Systems – To the Moon 2028
– Interstellar tier: $335K USD (X1)
– HEO tier: $202K USD (X1)
– LEO tier: $67K USD (X1)
Delivered in conjunction with Robinson Aerospace Systems & Magnitude.io, Mission to the Moon 2026 to 2028 has several phases to carry experiments into Earth orbit and to the moon. Students compete to get their experiment idea into Earth Orbit for 2 months in 2026 followed by landing an experiment on the Moon in 2028 as part of the Artemis Missions.
Milestones:
2026 – 2U-4U of volume aboard the unpressurised cargo of a space capsule for 2 months. We receive data from the experiments twice per day. The space capsule will return to Earth for the experiments to be recovered. This could fit 10-20 student experiments depending on their size and mass.
2028 – We will be placed on the lunar surface as part of an Artemis mission to the Moon. This experiment will stay on the moon indefinitely, with the space capsule sending data back to Earth.
This special category also comes with sponsorship too:
- Sponsor’s logo on the side of the experiment, seen clearly when in the space capsule and when displayed following the mission
- You receive a piece of the experiment after return (eg. a small pendant or small circuit board for display).
- High visibility in all global materials as well as in Australia (in 2023, AVA reached over 300 schools & 12,000 students across Australia).
- Specific content created around your organisation for students to study as part of the challenge.
- Live webinar speaking opportunities.
- Access to impact & demographic data metrics.
- Top-tier logo placement on all event-related materials, including banners, posters, flyers, and digital media.
- Display of your logo and name on the event website, with direct links to your website.
- High visibility in all event press releases and media coverage.
- Opportunities to engage directly with participants at the finalist event with a booth and speaking opportunities.
- Opportunities to participate in the finalist judging.
- Option to include promotional materials in participant packages.
- Opportunities to place finalists & winners in your organisation
Your support will fund the Mission to the Moon, the design & outreach phase for 2024/25, ground trials in 2025, the Earth Orbit in 2026 and the 2028 mission to the Moon inclusive pre-launch logistics, payload verification, launch, experiment support & post mission scientific work & school engagement. This funding also supports the Australian Astronaut Challenge pitch challenge judging, pitch event, finalist mentoring and the winner’s package for students & teachers.
CONTACT US
For more information please contact us directly via:
