Team of 3–6 · Published website with documentation and possible presentation

Website Design

Your team creates and launches a website that explains the subject in the year's design brief.

Planning the website's contentBuilding pages and referencesPublishing the completed site

What you make or do

Build and launch a website with at least three pages that responds to the current design brief.
Include a page labeled Reference with sources, any required permissions, and PDF links to the completed Student Copyright Checklist and Work Log.
Prepare to explain the website's design, originality, and technical choices in a presentation and interview if selected.

This year’s challenge

For 2027, create an informational website for a fictional space exploration program. Explain its mission goals, crew, technology, and significance for the future of human space exploration to the general public, especially students your age.

How the competition works

Before the event

Build the site during the current school year, make it accessible online with its documentation, and submit the entry URL by the official pre-conference deadline.

First round

Judges review the submitted website and its response to the design brief to choose semifinalists.

If you advance

Give a presentation of up to five minutes and answer questions for up to five minutes. Up to six team representatives may participate.

Know before you choose: The website must be accessible without a password or access request. Frameworks may be used, but prebuilt templates and themes are not permitted; read the documentation requirements for your chosen tools.

How your work is scored

Judges score the website's response to the theme and challenge, content, navigation, graphics, function, compatibility, and writing. Semifinalists also earn presentation/interview scores.

Download the official rubric or score sheet (PDF)

Open the scoring pages within the full event guide

Read the full 2027 theme or preparation information

Design Brief: Design and develop an informational website dedicated to a fictitious space exploration program. Your website should educate and inspire a general public audience — particularly students your age — about the mission's goals, crew, technology, and significance for the future of human space exploration.

Official files to keep

Read the guide, current challenge, and updates together. This overview helps you choose; the official documents give the full requirements.

Guide evidence: 351–356. Annual sources checked September 10, 2026. These are national competition rules; your teacher will confirm any regional or state changes.

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