2009 NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Design contest results

http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/Contest/Results/2009/index.html

While I worked at NASA Ames Research Center I met Al Globus and had the pleasure of helping judge submissions for the NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Design contest. It was always a thrill to see the creativity expressed in the submissions.

Some of the high school submissions looked like PhD thesis submissions and even the ones from 4th grade students were often beautiful.

There were submissions from around the world and the winners we would host and give a tour of NASA Ames.
Check out the web site. These students may well be our next engineers or passengers to a city in space. :-)
- LRK -
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http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/Contest/Results/2009/index.html
2009 NASA/NSS Student Space Settlement Design contest results

Statistics

This year we received 294 submissions from 808 students sponsored by 93 teachers. Entries came from Bulgaria, Canada, China, Dubai, UAE, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Romania, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Uruguay. U.S. entries were received from 8 states: California, Georgia, Illinois, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York and Utah.

Note: All certificates will be sent out by 5/12/2009.

Important: All contestants, their families, and teachers are invited to attend the International Space Development Conference (ISDC - http://www.isdc2009.org/). If you are a contestant and plan to attend ISDC, please contact nss-students@comcast.net to determine if you will give an oral presentation of poster.

Winners

Grand Prize

The Grand Prize winning submissions for 2009 went to Eric Yam, Pooja Bhattacharga and Swastika Bhattacharga.
Eric is a student of Ms. Gillian Evans at Northern Secondary School in Toronto Canada. His project was named *ASTEN*.

Pooja Bhattacharga and Swastika Bhattacharga were instructed by Ms. Gishree Nanda of St. Xavier's High School in Orissa India. *Orissa Design Inspired Systemsand Aerovehicles * was the title of their submission.

Note: for the rest of the prizes there were individual, team (consisting of 2-6 students) and large group awards for two groups: 6-9^th grade and 10-12^th grade. Team names are listed by submission.

Student Art Gallery

First Prize

* /Extraterrestrial Residence City, /Sayantan Bhattacharya, Mary
Immaculate School, West Bengal, India. 6-9 Individual.
* /Space Settlement, /Chaitra M. Kumbargoudar, Karnataka, India.
10-12 Individual.
* /Gusto Smawaat, / Islamabad, Pakistan. 10-12 Team.
* /E-NeXt, /Jay Sanjay Patrikar, Shantanu Milaind Manke and Madhur
Sameer Bhalkar, Somalwar High School, Maharashtra, India . 6-9 Team .
* /EDENEST, /Apeejay School, Jalandhar, India. 6-9 Large Group. (tie)
* /MEGA, /Courtland Jr. SR. High School, Cortland, New York. 6-9
Large Group. (tie)
* /TOMIS, /Colegiul National "Mircea cel Batran", Constanta,
Romania. 10-12 Large Group.
* /DIVYA-Constanta Omega, /Colegiul National "Mircea cel Batran",
Constanta, Romania. Life Science.
* /UDAAN ART GALLERY, /Ryan International School, New Delhi, India.
6-9 Artistic Merit.
* /Space Settlements in Color, / Student Ching, School of
Creativity, Hong Kong, China. 6-9 Artistic Merit.
* /Space Settlements in Color, /Student Sing, School of Creativity,
Hong Kong, China. 10-12 Artistic Merit. (tie)
* /Abhivyakti, /Ryan International School, New Delhi, India. 10-12
Artistic Merit. (tie)
* /MERC, /Little Flowers Public Sr. Sec. School, Delhi, India.
Literary Merit.

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