Solicitation Number:

MMORFP

Notice Type:

Combined Synopsis/Solicitation

Synopsis:

NASA seeks proposals for collaboration with an organization to enhance NASA'sability to achieve its educational goals by creating and managing a Massively MultiplayerOnline (MMO) game. The game would be fun and would enhance science, technology,engineering and mathematics (STEM) learning. It is intended that this request will resultin the establishment of a non-reimbursable Space Act Agreement (defined as one with noexchange of funds) that will define the full roles and responsibilities of NASA and theproposing organization. NASAs Learning Technologies (LT) is the requesting office.1LT encourages respondents to view the requirements in this document as minimum set ofcriteria and not as limitations. A successful MMO game that enhances STEM education willbe a challenging and innovative undertaking that will require extensive creativity,talent, commitment and ignificant outside the box thinking from NASA and NASAs partnerin the endeavor.For purposes of this request, a massively multiplayer online (MMO) game is considered tobe a persistent immersive synthetic environment with built in goals, achievement systemand rules. Existing examples of MMO games in industry include EverQuest,World of Warcraft and Eve Online. (Note: NASA does not endorse or sponsor any of thesegames; they are cited only by way of example.) -----------------------------1. LT is a research and development incubator for educational technologies projects. Itis guided by the research agenda laid out in the NASA eEducation Roadmap: ResearchChallenges in the Design of Persistent Immersive Synthetic Environments for Education &Training(http://learners.gsfc.nasa.gov/NLT/Roadmap/); LT is part of the NASA Office ofEducations Elementary and Secondary/eEducation program and is managed at Goddard SpaceFlight Center as an agency-wide project.

Contracting Office Address:

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 210, Greenbelt, MD 20771

Point of Contact(s):

Daniel D Laughlin, Project Manager for NASA Learning Technologies, Phone 301-286-1112, Fax 301-286-0574, Email Daniel.D.Laughlin@nasa.gov Daniel D Laughlin