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 Tuesday, July 11, 2006. Chandigarh Newsline Apeejay team leaves for NASA today Express News Service JALANDHAR, July 10: A group of students from Apeejay School, Jalandhar is leaving tomorrow to participate in the final of International Space Settlement Design Competition to be held at NASA’s Johnson’s Space Centre, Houston, Texas from July 14 to 17. This team is among the top seven teams selected from around the globe for final competition. The event is organised by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in collaboration with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, USA. The Apeejay School is teamed up with Whitney School, California, USA, in the final competition under the name of a company, Dougeldyne Astro Systems and Flechtel Constructors. The team will be given a fresh proposal and will be asked to design a community on the planet Mars, as per the requirements given by NASA in 42-hour duration. And finally each team will be given one hour presentation time before a seven-member panel of NASA scientists, who would check the presented proposal with technical feasibility. The participating teams prepare designs for cities in space where over 10,000 people will live, known as space settlements or space colonies. The team participated and excelled in the following three stages: Asian semi-final level, Asian final level and International preliminary level. The student members of ‘‘Apeejay Space Architects’’ are: Harleen Kaur, Kanika Puri, Ankit Singhal, Arvinder Singh, Saurabh Chopra, Ankur Mahajan, Anoop Singh, Hardeep Singh, Mohit Thukral, Rohan Sardana, Aseem Handa, Varun Ahuja and Sandeep Aggarwal. Team Advisors: Emmanuel Ratnaraj, Physics lecturer in Apeejay school, Jalandhar, and Neeraj Kohli, an ex-student of the same school who is presently studying in engineering in Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan. |
