Welcome to the RealWorld-InWorld NASA Engineering Design Challenge! In this unique education initiative, high-school-aged students work cooperatively as engineers and scientists to solve real-world problems related to the James Webb Space Telescope.

After exploring and designing solutions face-to-face in the RealWorld (Phase 1), interested teachers/coaches register teams of 3-5 high-school-aged students to be considered to continue their work InWorld (Phase 2), in a virtual world setting.

Participating college students build InWorld teams by selecting from registered teams and their teachers/coaches. Each InWorld team is assigned an engineering mentor. In this virtual world setting, newly formed teams use 21st Century tools to refine designs and create 3D models of the Webb telescope.

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