Space Settlement Design Contest 2004 Results

Statistics

This year we received 122 submissions from 444 students sponsored by 29 teachers. Entries came from Germany, India, Japan, Malaysia, Pakistan, Romania and 10 states: California, Colorado, Florida, Illinois, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Mexico, New York, Tennessee, and Virginia.

Winners

Grand Prize

The grand prize went to three students from Constantza, Romania for their submission LEDA, Flaviu Valentin Barsan, Andrei Dan Costea and Carmen Maria Sigovan are high school students of Ion Bararu.
Congratulations to these young students for an outstanding research project.

Note: for the rest of the prizes there were individual, team (consisting of 2-6 students) and large group (from 7-18 students) and Classroom awards for two groups: 6-9^th grade and 10-12^th grade. Team names are listed by submission.

Note: June 21, 2004. Award Winners (shown here at Mars Center) tour Ames Research Center.

Student Art Gallery

First Prize

PRITHVI, Arka Prava Dhar, Assam, India. 6-9 Individual
Freelancers Unlimited, Matthew David Lee, Cerritos, California. 10-12 Individual (tie)
CERES-Space Station, Almuth Hoffmann, Seeheim-Jugenheim, Germany. 10-12 Individual (tie)
I.S.S.Firebird, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto, California. 6-9 Team (tie)
APUS, Brandyn Sullins, Tom Richards, Cary Jordan, Jared Calhoun, Patrick Malley and Alex Wagner, Wilson Middle School, Tampa, Florida 6-9 Team (tie)
ABBCD, Freedom High School, Oakley, California. 10-12 Team
Space Colony Design, Branson Junior High School, Branson, Missouri. 6-9 Large Group
Aerospace Design Team, Collierville High School, Collierville, Tennessee. 10-12 Large Group
Hazardous Object Defense System, Anguel Alexiev, Granada Hills, California. Artistic Merit

Second Prize

Christo-Amerigo, Shahab Bandukwalla, Karnataka, India. 6-9 Individual
O SHSP, Ahmad Shuji Koshani, Quetta, Pakistan. 10-12 Individual
SEEDS, Horia-Mihail Teodorescu and Lucian Gabriel Bahrin, National Lyceum "C. Negruzzi" School, Iasi, Romania 6-9 Team (tie)
Titanus, West Junior High School, Columbia, Missouri 6-9 Team (tie)
Magna Polaris I, Kadena Middle School, Okinawa, Japan 6-9 Team (tie)
The Swohls, West Springfield High School, Springfield, Virginia. 10-12 Team (tie)
Jamba Crib, Freedom High School, Oakley, California. 10-12 Team (tie)
DSE Alpha, Collierville Middle School, Collierville, Tennessee. 6-9 Large Group
Lauren A., Woodrow Wilson Middle. High School, Tampa, Florida. Artistic Merit.

Third Prize

Space Colony Design, Steven Obriant, Kadena Middle School, Okinawa, Japan. 6-9 Individual
Athena, Katie L. Freedom High School, Oakley, California. 10-12 Individual
Psyzmk 101, Ralston Middle School, Belmont, California. 6-9 Team
Got Rice...Again?, Saint Thomas Aquinas H.S., Dover, New Hampshire. 10-12 Team (tie)
ANJ, Freedom High School, Oakley, California. 10-12 Team (tie)
MOST, Cortland Jr. High School, Cortland, New York. 6-9 Large Group
Katie W., Woodrow Wilson Middle. High School, Tampa, Florida. Artistic Merit.

Honorable Mention:

Living in Space, Benjamin Blake, Kadena Middle School, Okinawa, Japan. 6-9 Individual
Space Colony Design, Rinachi Garg, D.A.V. Public School, Delhi, India. 10-12 Individual
Mag Enterprise, Ralston Middle School, Belmont, California. 6-9 Team
BOB, Heights Middle School, Farmington, New Mexico. 6-9 Team
CEARS, Martinez Middle School, Lutz, Florida. 6-9 Team
SOAR, Cortland Jr. High School, Cortland, New York. 6-9 Large Group
Jackson R., Woodrow Wilson Middle School, Tampa Florida. 6-9 Artistic Merit

Teachers

These teachers involved their classes in the contest:

Tommie Anderson, Branson Jr. High School, Branson, Missouri
Jan Baldridge, Heights Middle School, Farmington, New Mexico
Suzanne Blau, Ellicott Middle School, Ellicott, Colorado
Mike Baldwin, Thomas Keys and Pete Daunais, Collierville Middle School, Collierville, Tennessee
Heidi Barnhouse, West Junior High School, Columbia, Missouri
Ion Bararu, Constantza, Constantza, Romania
Madhurja Prasad Bora, Assam, India
Maria Clayton, Saint Thomas Aquinas High School, Dover, New Hampshire
Leela Devi, St. Michael's Institution, Perak Darul Ridzuan, Malaysia
Barbara Anne Fisher and Jennifer Lancaster, Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, Tampa, Florida
Jeannie Heacock, Los Alamos Middle School, Los Alamos, New Mexico
Daniela Iftode, Iasi, Iasi, Romania
Dorothy Larsen, Bob Martinez Middle School, Lutz, Florida
Cyndi Maddox, Auxvasse, Missouri
Michelle Morgan, West Springfield High School, Springfield, Virginia
Stephanie Passeri, Cortland Jr., Sr. High School, Cortland, NY.
Tug Sezen, Freedom High School, Oakley, California
Heather Stenovitch, Kadena Middle School, Okinawa, Japan
Dr. C. Talbot, River Bend Middle School, Sterling, Virginia
Prof. Horia Teodorescu, Prof. Adam Korilloff and Prof. Margareta Constantinescu, Iasi, Romania
Allan Varni, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto, California.
Jim Weaver, Kadena Middle School, Okinawa, Japan
Bryan Yager, Ralston Middle School, Belmont, California.
Lynn Zielinski, Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, Illinois

Judges

Pamela Denkins, NASA Johnson Space Center
Al Globus, NASA Ames Research Center
Ruth Globus, NASA Ames Research Center
David Kao, NASA Ames Research Center
Larry Kellogg, NASA Ames Research Center
Chris Maese, NASA Ames Research Center
B. J. Navarro, NASA Ames Research Center
Nicole Rayl, NASA Ames Research Center
Marilyn Vasquez, NASA Ames Research Center
Wenonah Vercoutere, NASA Ames Research Center
Julie Wilcox, NASA Ames Research Center

Special thanks to Dr. Charlie Wade and Ruth Globus at NASA Ames Research Center for supporting this educational activity.

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