Apeejay School has won the prestigious annual international Space Settlement Design Contest organised by America's NASA AMES Research Centre in collaboration with US-based non-profit organisation National Space Society.
JALANDHAR: A city school has won the prestigious annual international Space Settlement Design Contest organised by America's NASA AMES Research Centre in collaboration with US-based non-profit organisation National Space Society.
After winning the International Space Settlement Design Competition in July last year, Apeejay School, Jalandhar, has again made a mark in the international circuit by winning the contest held by the California-based research lab supporting NASA missions, the school's principal Ranjana Sud said on Thursday.
The team comprising five class IX students -- Karan Jain, Abhisaar Sharma, Sanyam Mehra, Aina Dhingra and Bhavya Gupta -- worked on their research project for eight months, under supervision of their physics teacher Emmanuel Ratnaraj, to develop their own "space settlement" around earth, she said.
A 76-page project proposal was submitted to NASA AMES last March and recently, it was awarded the first prize in the junior category (sixth to ninth grade), Sud said.
This year, 109 submissions from 601 students supervised by 33 teachers were received from across the world, with entries coming from countries like Canada, Iran, Romania, Slovenia, Uruguay, Venezuela, Turkey and 11 states of the US.
About the project, submitted by the students, she said it was titled "Babel", which literally means "gate of gods", in the shape of a torus placed in the orbit of the earth.
"Babel will have earth-like atmosphere, food and special waste disposal and water management systems have been designed to suit the space environment," she said.
The governance, rights, and ethics to be followed in Babel have also been listed in the project, she added.
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