The Lander Challenge
Teams of high school students design, build, and launch lunar lander prototypes — live propulsion, working avionics, actual flight. Prizes across five technical milestones.
Ambitious, hands-on education for students ready to build. Currently in engineering.
From our program Lander Challenge. Funding, rockets, & results.
"Science is about knowing. Engineering is about doing."
Definity Education is a nonprofit dedicated to ambitious, hands-on education — the kind that prepares students to do serious work in the world. We trust them early, treat them seriously, and give them problems worth solving.
Today, that work is in engineering. We expect that to expand.
Teams of high school students design, build, and launch lunar lander prototypes — live propulsion, working avionics, actual flight. Prizes across five technical milestones.
An eight-week EV/AV build challenge in Los Angeles. ~25 high schoolers work alongside professional engineers on electric and autonomous vehicle systems — summer 2026.
Definity Education was founded by Patrick Finley, a hardware engineer at Reflect Orbital. Our advisors are working engineers, founders, and researchers — people who do the work, not just teach it.
We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, currently operating in Georgia and California. Our long-term ambition is to build physical schools — institutions built around meaningful work — globally.
Read more about the team →Students, parents, mentors, partners, and donors — write to us directly.
contact@definityproject.org →Applications for the Lander Challenge and Summer Camp are open now. Spots are limited and reviewed on a rolling basis.