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According to a press release, two Indian student groups from Punjab and Tamil Nadu have won the NASA 2022 Human Exploration Rover Challenge.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration announced the challenge on April 29 during a virtual awards ceremony, which included 91 teams from 58 colleges and 33 high schools.
The challenge required US and international student teams to design, engineer, and test a human-powered rover on a course that mimicked the terrain found on rocky bodies in the solar system. While negotiating the course, the teams also completed mission tasks such as sample retrieval and spectrographic analysis.
“This year, students were asked to design a course that would mimic obstacles as if they were competing in Huntsville,” said Aundra Brooks-Davenport, activity lead for the challenge at the Marshall Space Flight Centre in Huntsville, Alabama.
“Ensuring team safety was a major factor in developing the design of their own obstacles. We are excited about the virtual competition and the opportunity it provided our teams,” Brooks-Davenport said.
Decent Children Model Presidency School from Punjab was the winner of the STEM Engagement Award in the High School division. The team from Vellore Institute of Technology in Tamil Nadu was declared the winner in the College/University division in the Social Media Award, the release said.
The STEM Engagement Award in the High School division went to Punjab’s Decent Children Model Presidency School. According to the release, the team from Vellore Institute of Technology in Tamil Nadu was named the winner of the Social Media Award’s College/University division.
Source:HT
