*IMPORTANT 2020-2021 UPDATE

We understand the COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted the education system and continues to present significant challenges for many of our Team Advisors and student participants. eCYBERMISSION wants to help ease some of those challenges and remove a few of the barriers students and Team Advisors are encountering while participating in eCYBERMISSION this year due to virtual learning challenges and social distancing requirements. We are pleased to announce two accommodations to our rules for this year only in light of the COVID-19 pandemic:

• Team Make Up: a complete team can now include two, three or four students
• Mixed Grade Teams: Students from different grades (6-9) may form a team. However, the students will compete at the highest grade level. For example, two 6th graders and an 8th grader may form a team, but will compete at the 8th grade level.

Please don’t hesitate to reach out to Mission Control with any questions or concerns you may have regarding these changes. We are here to help!

eCYBERMISSION is a free, web-based STEM competition for students in grades six through nine that promotes self-discovery and enables all students to recognize the real-life applications of STEM. Teams of three or four students are instructed to ask questions (for science) or define problems (for engineering), and then construct explanations (for science) or design solutions (for engineering) based on identified problems in their community. Students compete for State, Regional and National Awards.