As you’ve heard, sequestration is causing a serious impact to the funding of many worthy space projects—most recently suspending all work on Education and Public Outreach (EPO) efforts funded through NASA.

Because our company and board of advisors are made up largely of working space scientists and educators, we know how many dedicated and hard working EPO professionals are affected by cuts like these.

At Uwingu, we believe that private and commercial funding of space-based initiatives—including research and EPO—is more important than ever.

That’s the purpose of The Uwingu Fund, which is fueled from people participating in projects at Uwingu.

Currently, we’re conducting an innovative, “People’s Choice” contest to nominate and vote to determine the most popular name for the newly discovered planet around the nearest star to the Sun—alpha Centauri. We hope you’ll participate, and we hope you will tell others about what we’re doing in your circles.

And by way of this blog, I am announcing we are going to take our own kind of action at Uwingu. Specifically, I am announcing today that all Uwingu Fund proceeds from the naming contest for alpha Centauri’s planet will go to EPO grants.

Please help us get this word out to the press and via social media and word of mouth, and encourage people to participate in the contest at www.uwingu.com Help us help those in sudden need.

On Behalf of the Uwingu Team, Thanks,

Dr. Alan Stern

CEO Uwingu