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A team of Indian students have won the prestigious Annual International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISDCC) organised at the Nasa Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA by the American space agency.
The team of 12 students are from the Amity International School, Noida in the Delhi National Capital Region (NCR). The team was the only Asian team to reach the final round and were able to defeat four other teams of 50 students each to win the competition.
The team included — Dhruv Khanna, AabhasVaish, Aman Agarwal, AnujHarisinghani, Rishab Srivastava, Chittaranjan Prasad, Suchit Jain, Rahul Rajput, TanayAsija, AnantChaturvedi, GrishmaPurewal of class 11 and Mudit Gupta of class 10. The team was part of a company named “Vulture Aviation” that also included teams from Latin America, North America and two teams from the UK and the USA.
The ISSDC has been teaching industrial skills to high school students since previous two decades. In the competition, the participants have to design a city in space acting like aerospace industry engineers for housing more than 10,000 people. The team designed two main settlements and four outlying settlements to house 24,000 people as well as transient population of 3,000 on Mars using a transparent material ‘AluminumOxinitride’. They looked at various aspects like structural engineering, automation, operations, human engineering, marketing and finance, schedule and cost.
Dr Amita Chauhan, chairperson, Amity International Schools, said, “We are proud to have such brilliant students who have made the country proud with their talent and hard work. We are inspired by scientist and visionary Dr APJ Abdul Kalam’s work in science and technology. We had been participating in the competition for eight years now, but this year we finally made it to the top.”
