​🚀 Mission Control: Pitch Day

​Pitch your project. Win $1,000. ☄️

​Mission Control is the in-person pitch day of The Next Frontier 2026, a community-driven space innovation hackathon hosted by AI Collective Hampton Roads and presented by ECPI University.

​Teams pitch their ideas in exploration, space medicine, space agriculture, or space tourism, and the top team takes home $1,000, announced at the end of the day.

​Missed Friday's Launchpad workshop? You can still come. Pitch something you've been working on, cheer on the teams, or come see what Hampton Roads is building for space.

​During Mission Control we'll:

• ​🚀 Pitch: each team shares their idea and what they built

• ​💡 Get feedback from judges and the community

• ​🤝 Meet people who care about science, space, and AI

• ​🏆 Announce the $1,000 winner

​After pitch day, teams finish and submit their NASA project virtually on Sunday, November 15.

​📅 Event Details

​Saturday, November 14, 2026

​🕚 11:00 AM–2:00 PM EST

​📍 ECPI University | 5555 Greenwich Rd, Virginia Beach, VA

​🌐 Event Website: https://aichr-nextfrontier.lovable.app/

​💬 Discord: Join Discord Server

​✨ No coding experience required. Beginners and curious minds welcome!

​Pitch your idea. Win the mission. 🚀

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​The AI Collective is a global non-profit community uniting 150,000+ pioneers – founders, researchers, operators, and investors – exploring the frontier of AI in major tech hubs worldwide. Through events, workshops, and community-led research, we empower the AI ecosystem to collaboratively steer AI’s future toward trust, openness, and human flourishing.

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