Students from Indian School wins Nasa space settlement design contest

Updated on: Monday, August 10, 2015

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Students from the Amity International School of Noida, India has won the 20th Annual International Space Settlement Design Competition, 2015, which was held at NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA

The Amity team in Nasa had 12 students -- Dhruv Khanna, Aabhas Vaish, Aman Agarwal, Anuj Harisinghani, Rishab Srivastava, Chittaranjan Prasad, Suchit Jain, Rahul Rajput, Tanay Asija, Anant Chaturvedi, Grishma Purewal from Class XI and Mudit Gupta from Class X.

The final level of Space Settlement Design Competition, held between August 2-4, had participation from '4 companies' with 50 candidates each from different parts of world who were competing for the title.

Amity International School principal Renu Singh said that their students were in a company called 'Vulture Aviation' and were clubbed with teams from Latin America and North America and two selected team finalists from the UK and USA.

The Amity team in Nasa had designed two main settlements and four outlying settlements to accommodate a population of 24,000 as well as a transient of 3,000 more on Mars using a transparent material, 'Aluminium Oxinitride'.

While designing the project, the team members worked on aspects such as Human Engineering, Operations Engineering, Automation Engineering, Marketing and Finance, Cost and Schedule.

The Amity team had worked on the project for 48 hours in Nasa.

On talking in brief about the project, Aabhas Vaish said that the Mars Space Settlement was named 'Argonom Bult'.

He also said that the selection of location for the Mars colony based on the quality of soil and amount of dust storm in the particular area.

He said that the total cost for building a colony for 24,000 habitants would be 1,225,571,360,000 dollars.

The International Space Settlement Design Competition in Nasa is a toughest contest which aimed to develop industrial skills in students. This competition makes high school students to involve in the works of aerospace engineers.

Students from Indian School wins Nasa space settlement design contest

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