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Mission Patch Design Contest!

🚀 Get Ready to Blast Off with Your Own Space Patch Design! 🎨✨

MCC is teaming up with the Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) for an out-of-this-world Mission Patch Design Competition! 🌍🚀 Your mission (should you choose to accept it): design a super cool mission patch that will actually fly into space and hang out on the International Space Station (ISS)! 🌟

But that’s not all—this patch will travel alongside a real microgravity experiment created by MCC STEM students for Mission #20! 🛰️🔬

When the patches return to Earth, they’ll be a lasting symbol of our community’s epic journey into space science. So grab your pencils, get creative, and make history with your design! 🎨🚀🌌

Open to all K-12 students (including homeschool) in the MCC service area!

Space ship with rocket fire coming out of it as it races through space

Design Requirements

  • Size: The design must be less than 3.5” x 3.5” to fly to space.
  • Material: Designs must be delivered on paper (not cardstock, cardboard, or any heavy-weighted surface).
  • Layers: The design cannot include multiple layers of paper glued or taped together.
  • Color: Designs can be in black and white or full-color.

For more information and examples of previous mission patches, visit the SSEP Mission Patches Page.

Download the Template

    How to Submit

    • Drop off your original artwork at the designated drop boxes at MCC or local schools (Pioneer Elementary, Green Acres Elementary, Baker Elementary, Columbine Elementary).
    • Include your name, age, and school.
    • If you need assistance with dropping off artwork, or would like to have your school be a drop off location, please contact [email protected].
    Illustration of a glowing earth with clouds and a spiral cloud where a rocket would have launched

    What is SSEP and how are the patches used?

    The Student Spaceflight Experiments Program (SSEP) is a national program with student teams across a community designing and proposing real microgravity experiments to fly in orbit as the core activity. Each community participating in SSEP can fly up to two Mission Patches to the International Space Station. 

    The mission patch component of SSEP forges interdisciplinary connections between STEM fields and art and design, so that SSEP is a true STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Mathematics) initiative.

    Don’t miss this chance to have your artwork travel to the stars!

    For questions or more information, email [email protected] or call Tahais at (970) 542-3263.