Name the Rover Contest
Thank You for Your Help in Naming the Mars 2020 Rover!
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The "Name the Rover" public poll is now closed. Participants from all over the world shared their favorite names with NASA, submitting more than 770,000 votes in the poll of the nine finalists. Thousands of volunteer judges helped review more than 28,000 essay submissions from K-12 students nationwide. Every state and grade level across the U.S. was represented when NASA announced the 155 semifinalists.
Come back in early March when NASA announces the essay contest winner. NASA will invite the winning student to see the spacecraft launch in July 2020 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Meanwhile, you can learn more about the Mars 2020 mission, and even see where the rover is now.
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By participating in the essay contest, students:
- Learn about real NASA missions
- Apply their critical thinking skills
- Learn something new, and form questions about a place they may never have heard of
- Conduct research using NASA websites
- Applying their writing skills
The winning essay will be published on NASA's Mars Website.
