NASA Announces Winners of 2025 Human Exploration Rover Challenge, Featuring Remote-Control Division and Global Participation

NASA has announced the winners of the 31st annual Human Exploration Rover Challenge, which concluded on April 11-12 at the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. This year's competition tasked over 500 students from 75 teams worldwide with designing, building, and testing lunar rovers. The challenge included a new remote-control division, Remote-Operated Vehicular Research, inviting middle school participation for the first time. Parish Episcopal School (Dallas, Texas) won the high school human-powered division, while Campbell University (Buies Creek, North Carolina) secured the college/university title. In the remote-control division, Bright Foundation (Surrey, British Columbia, Canada) won the middle/high school category, and Instituto Tecnologico de Santa Domingo (Dominican Republic) won the college/university category. Teams navigated a half-mile obstacle course, completed mission-specific tasks, and underwent safety and design reviews with NASA engineers. The Rover Challenge is one of NASA's eight Artemis Student Challenges, aiming to encourage students in STEM fields and prepare them for future space missions, including crewed missions to other planets.