Dikshant Students Gets Entry in NASA Contest

By 121 News Reporter

Chandigarh 27^th February:- Thirteen(13) students of Dikshant International School, Zirakpur have registered a major achievement & made the tri-city proud by designing an Orbital space settlement project, which has been selected for NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest – 2015. Students from grade 8 and 9 have participated in designing of the project, while Devanshu Chaudhary, Karthikey Sharma, Harsh Sharma, Dev Vats, Archit Talwar, Vishal Verma, Kunal Bhalla, Vedant Kapoor, Paras Gupta, Akshat Dhadwal, Manav Madhok are from grade 8, Hitesh and Himanshu are from Grade 9.

Himsanshu said that the project designed by students is based on an orbital settlement with a self sufficient life support system.  The budding space scientists have created a model of an orbital space colony, where approximately 10,000 people can live, work & enjoy life. The model also covers the scientific techniques that will be used for fulfilling the basic and general needs like production of oxygen and methane, water recycling and power generation using solar panels, antennas, & radars for communication, solar powered transport vehicles and research centers.

Devanshu Chaudhary, said that the project also describes the scope for industries that can be set up at the colony and how some of them can even be useful for supporting earth. We have used raw material like corrugated cardboard boxes, pipes, and used toys to construct the model.

Mitul Dikshit, Chairman, Dikshant International School said that it is important for students to realize their interests. Our school provides encouragement and right opportunities to pupils. We are also setting up a fixed digital planetarium in the school premises soon. This I am sure will be a turning point in propagation of Space Science not just in the school but also the schooling system of the country.