A team of 12 students from Amity International School, Noida, have brought laurels to their school and the city by winning the prestigious 20th Annual International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISDCC), which was recently held at the Nasa’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA.

The team contained 12 students from class 11 and 10- Dhruv Khanna, Aabhas Vaish, Aman Agarwal, Anuj Harisinghani, Rishab Srivastava, Chittaranjan Prasad, Suchit Jain, Rahul Rajput, Tanay Asija, Anant Chaturvedi, Grishma Purewal of class 11 and Mudit Gupta of class 10.

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A team of 12 members from Amity schools were part of a company named “Vulture Aviation”. teams from Latin America, North America and two teams from the UK and the USA were also included in the company, said Renu Singh, Amity International School’s Principal.

Amity students win NASA space settlement design competition:

There were Four companies (for the purpose of the competition) took part in the final round of Space Settlement Design Competition from all over the world containing 50 participants each.They competed for the title from August 2 to 4. The Amity team was the only team from Asia to make it to the final round and defeated four other teams of 50 participants each and this is the first time that an Indian team has won the competition.

Every year Nasa conducts the competition for the past 20 years, the ISSDC has been teaching industrial skills to high school students. The main aim of the competition is to help the students to build their industrial skills and enhance
their knowledge. The competition puts high school students in the position of aerospace engineers and lets them to innovate. As a part of that they are supposed to design a space colony in Mars, which would accommodate over 10,000 people.

Amity International School, Noida students wins Nasa contest for designing settlement on Mars:

In the ISSD competition the Amity team has designed two main settlements and four outlying settlements to accommodate a population of 24,000 as well as a transient of 3,000 more on Mars using a transparent material,
‘Aluminium Oxinitride’. It helped them to work on different aspects of designing such as Automation Engineering, Operations Engineering, Human Engineering, Marketing and Finance, schedule and cost.since a year the students had been working hard for this competition.

“It was a thrilling experience. From material to be used in designing the colony to waste and water management, external transportation, power generation, water recycling, we even proposed provisions for cargo handling, distribution of electricity and storage of excess of electricity and mode of transportation with the earth,” said the youngest member of the team, Mudhit Gupta.

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“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,”told Dr. Amita Chauhan, chairperson, Amity International Schools.