NASA Space settlement design contest

May 11th, 2009

NASA organizes a space settlement design  contest for high school students and students from all over the world, including from India, participate in it. This year a team from Orissa won the grand prize. The 2009 contest page has this to say about it. (Some name corrections are made using a tathya.in article about this.)

The Grand Prize winning submissions for 2009 went to Eric Yam, Pooja Bhattacharya and Swastika Bhattacharya.
Eric is a student of Ms. Gillian Evans at Northern Secondary School in Toronto Canada. His project was named ASTEN [PDF file 12 MB].

Pooja Bhattacharya and Swastika Bhattacharya were instructed by Ms. Itishree Nanda of St. Xavier’s High School in Orissa India. Orissa Design Inspired Systems and Aerovehicles was the title of their submission.

Their project is not available in that site. However, the projects of many of the grand prize winners are available. Following is a list from the page http://www.nas.nasa.gov/About/Education/SpaceSettlement/Contest/.

• ASTEN [PDF file 12 MB] 2009 (tie)
• Orissa Design Inspired Systems and Aerovehicles 2009 (tie)
• DACIA’S 2008 [PDF file 8 MB]
• APIS 2007 (tie)
• EVA Project 2007 (tie)
• PINTA 2007 (tie)
• Vademecum (2006)
• Temis (2005)
• LEDA (2004)
• Teba 1 (2003)
• Æther (2002)
• Avalon (2001) tie
• The Centurion Space Settlement (2001)
• DaedalusaL4 (2000)
• ClC1 (1999)
• The Babylon Project (1998)
• SCORE: Self Contained Off-world Residential Environment (1997)
• Tango III : A Space Settlement Design (1996)
• Well, you start with a Rock … (1995 technical merit)
• Princess Ishtar (1995 artistic merit)

Entry Filed under: K-12, NASA Space Settlement Contest