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New Delhi, April 2: Indian youngsters have made the country proud by bagging close to 50% of the design prizes in NASA. A 7th grade boy from Pune, especially made to the top by grabbing the 1st prize. According to DNA reports, there were about 600 entries from across 18 countries. But grabbing the 12 prestigious 1st prizes at the NASA Space Settlement Contest competition were Indians. India had sent about three dozen teams from 12th grade and below. Among the 7th graders, the first prize winner was the Pune boy Chaitanya Vashistha from Wadgaonsheri's St. Arnold Central school. "It's a matter of great delight and brings a lot of pride to us as it was a competition organized by such a eminent and recognized research center NASA," said his father. Out of a total team of 30, 22 Indian teams won second prizes. "This space research has motivated the students to hope that some day they will go and settle and explore in the field of astronomy " said Nalini Sengupta , principal of Vidya valley school, which was among the winners. Indian students also won 15 3rd prizes, which included artistic Merit and Literary Merit prize.
Read more at: Indian students bag top prizes in NASA's Design contest - News Oneindia
Madurai students win NASA’s space settlement design contest - The Hindu
“Cronus-The Utopia”, a work of fiction, by five students of Sri Sarada Vidyalayam Girls Matriculation Higher Secondary School in the city has won the third prize in the NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest – 2014, under the Literary Merit category.
The team comprising class XI students _ S.B. Vishaka Nandini, M. Shenbagam, K. Kamali, P. Dhivya Priya and S.G. Yogalakshmi, is the only one from Tamil Nadu to have won the prize. Set in 2250 AD, the story narrates how rapid depletion of natural resources on earth forces human beings to settle in Cronus, a fictional space orbit of Saturn.
“In the recent years, depletion of natural resources in Earth is rapid. In our work of fiction, we have created Cronus, which is diverse from Earth in so many ways.
The resources available are all similar to the Earth, but those living there are well efficient in conservation of nature and are unaware of corruption and other vices prevailing here,” said Ms. Nandini.
“In contrast to the present day Earth, where waste is not managed properly and chemical fertilisers are used in agriculture, inhabitants of Cronus are very efficient in recycling waste, make best use of solar and wind power, and use bio fertilisers in their aeroponic farms,” explained Ms. Yogalakshmi.
The NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest is conducted since 1994 and this is the first time the school took part in it, said B. Kanagalakshmi, a teacher in the school.
The competitions were conducted under different categories such as Artistic Merit, Literary Merit and Projects on Space Settlement.
Under the Literary Merit category, there is a tie between Arecibo Observatory Space Academy, Puerto Rico, and Ryan International School, New Delhi, for the first prize. For the second prize, there is a tie between Sri Chaitanya Techno School and Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT), both from Andhra Pradesh. The prizes would be distributed to the students at Los Angeles in May.
Read more at: Indian students bag top prizes in NASA's Design contest - News Oneindia
Madurai students win NASA’s space settlement design contest - The Hindu
“Cronus-The Utopia”, a work of fiction, by five students of Sri Sarada Vidyalayam Girls Matriculation Higher Secondary School in the city has won the third prize in the NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest – 2014, under the Literary Merit category.
The team comprising class XI students _ S.B. Vishaka Nandini, M. Shenbagam, K. Kamali, P. Dhivya Priya and S.G. Yogalakshmi, is the only one from Tamil Nadu to have won the prize. Set in 2250 AD, the story narrates how rapid depletion of natural resources on earth forces human beings to settle in Cronus, a fictional space orbit of Saturn.
“In the recent years, depletion of natural resources in Earth is rapid. In our work of fiction, we have created Cronus, which is diverse from Earth in so many ways.
The resources available are all similar to the Earth, but those living there are well efficient in conservation of nature and are unaware of corruption and other vices prevailing here,” said Ms. Nandini.
“In contrast to the present day Earth, where waste is not managed properly and chemical fertilisers are used in agriculture, inhabitants of Cronus are very efficient in recycling waste, make best use of solar and wind power, and use bio fertilisers in their aeroponic farms,” explained Ms. Yogalakshmi.
The NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest is conducted since 1994 and this is the first time the school took part in it, said B. Kanagalakshmi, a teacher in the school.
The competitions were conducted under different categories such as Artistic Merit, Literary Merit and Projects on Space Settlement.
Under the Literary Merit category, there is a tie between Arecibo Observatory Space Academy, Puerto Rico, and Ryan International School, New Delhi, for the first prize. For the second prize, there is a tie between Sri Chaitanya Techno School and Rajiv Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT), both from Andhra Pradesh. The prizes would be distributed to the students at Los Angeles in May.
