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From: The Spaceward Foundation [mailto:list-admin@...]
Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2007 5:37 PM
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Subject: The Spaceward Foundation Press Release - 2007 Space Elevator
Games venue and dates




Spaceward Foundation News Bulletin


PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Ted Semon
Spaceward Foundation, Mountain View, Calif.
ted@...
(630) 240-4797

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The Spaceward Foundation will hold the 2007 Space Elevator Games in Salt
Lake City, Utah on October 19 - October 21.

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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA; JULY 25 2007 - The Spaceward Foundation announced
today the venue and timing for its annual Space Elevator games.

The event will be held at the Davis County Event Center just outside of
Salt Lake City, Utah. The qualifying rounds will start on October 15,
and the event will be open to the public between October 19 and October
21.

The Space Elevator competitions, marking their third year running, will
feature more than 20 teams from around the country and the world, vying
for $1,000,000 in cash prizes provided by NASA's Centennial Challenges
program.

"The Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development is thrilled to have
the Spaceward Games in Utah this year" said Gary Harter, Managing
Director of Business Creation there. Barbara Riddle, director of the
Davis area conventions shared his enthusiasm.

This year will feature a new technology competition - "Light Racers" -
that allows kids and young adults to take part in a realistic lunar
exploration scenario and win cash prizes for their performance. The
competition is open to school, family, and grown-up teams. The Light
Racers also serve as a science education platform for teaching basic
science and math topics. Total Prize purse for the Light Racers is
$10,000, and registration is opening now. Details are available at
http://www.lightRacers.org.

Meekk Shelef, president of the Spaceward Foundation: "We are thrilled to
have added an educational component where kids can take part in the
competition. Reaching out to the scientists and engineers of the future
is the most important thing we can do."

The Space Elevator games concentrate on two far-reaching technology
concepts that will enable NASA to enhance its space program - power
beaming for wireless power transfer, and Nano-materials such as Carbon
Nanotubes for strong structures.

Ken Davidian, program manager for Centennial Challenges: "I am excited
and impressed with the evolution and level of technical maturity
demonstrated by the teams in both the Tether and Beam Power Challenges.
Over the past 24 months, individual teams started from scratch, have
grown continually, have coalesced into communities, and are on the verge
of accomplishing substantial achievements worthy of a Centennial
Challenges prize."

Dr. Bradley C Edwards, the leading Space Elevator researcher and science
advisor to the games: "The Space Elevator games, with their emphasis on
strong tethers and power beaming, represent the road to building the
Space Elevator. We hope their cumulative effect on the engineering
community will enable further effort in this direction."

"From what we've seen of the teams so far, we're looking forward to an
exciting race to the finish this year" said Ben Shelef, CEO of the
Spaceward Foundation. "Third year's a charm - we expect to be able to
award the prize purse this year".

The Space Elevator is a revolutionary Earth-to-Space transportation
system proposed in 1960 by Yuri Artsutanov and enhanced in 2000 by Dr.
Bradley Edwards, then at Los Alamos National Labs. The system is
comprised of a stationary cable rotating in unison with the Earth, with
one end anchored to the surface of the planet and the other end in
space. Electric cars then travel up and down the cable, carrying cargo
and people.

For more information on the competitions, visit:
http://www.spaceward.org, email ted@..., or call (630)
240-4797.

Press resources are located at http://www.spaceward.org/press.html
<http://www.spaceward.org/press/PR-2007-001.html>

The Spaceward Foundation is a public-funds non-profit organization
dedicated
to furthering space science and technology in the public mindshare and
in educational curriculums. We believe that expanding mankind's habitat
is essential to its survival, and that the most effective way to induce
long-term change is through education.

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The Spaceward Foundation is a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit dedicated
to furthering Space exploration in educational curriculums and the
public mindshare - http://www.spaceward.org.
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