Space Settlement Design Contest 2005 Results

Statistics

Awards will be sent out to all participants soon.

Winners

Grand Prize

There was a tie for the grand prize this year. Temis submitted by Horia-Mihail Teodorescu and MARS submitted by the team of Manoj. K and Sathish Kumar shared this years top honor. Horia-Mihail was awarded the top hornor for scientific emphasis while Manoj and Sathish were honored for engineering emphasis. Horia-Mihail, from Iasi, Romania was sponsored by three instructors, Adam Koriloff, Margareta Constantinescu and Dr. H.N. Teodorescu. Manoj and Sathish working independently, are students in Tamil Nadu, India.
Congratulations to these young students for such outstanding research projects.

Note: for the rest of the prizes there were individual, team (consisting of 2-6 students) and large group (from 7-25 students), for two groups: 6-9^th grade and 10-12^th grade. There were two additional categories for Artistic merit and Literary merit.
Team names are listed by submission.

Student Art Gallery

First Prize

• Cyberspace Frontiers, Rachita Bhatia, Delhi, New Delhi, India. 6-9 Individual
• MOB, Soroush Salehian, Tehran, Iran. 10-12 Individual
• Space Station Design Team, Howard Doolin Middle School, Miami, Florida 6-9 Team
• TI2, Inspectoratul Scolar Judeteam Constanta, Constanta, Romania. 10-12 Team
• NOW, Cortland Jr. High School, Cortland, New York. 6-9 Large Group
• Triangular Cluster, Collierville High School, Collierville, Tennessee. 10-12 Large Group
• Space Colony C 2050, Anguel Alexiev, Granada Hills, California. Artistic Merit
• Kshitij, Ryan International School, Rohini, New Delhi, Delhi, India. Literary Merit

Second Prize

• The Challenger, Bikram Jit Singh Pannu, Amritsar, Punjab, India. 6-9 Individual
• Space Colony C 2050, Anguel Alexiev, Granada Hills, California. 10-12 Individual
• ATA-1, Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey. 6-9 Team
• Swarga, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India. 10-12 Team
• Kshitij, Ryan International School, Rohini, New Delhi, Delhi, India. 6-9 Large group
• Columbiat, Edgewater High School, Orlando, Florida. 10-12 Large group
• 1. Mohd Ali Jafri, Kargil, Jammu & Kashmir, India. Artistic Merit

Third Prize

• Orbis 1, Garrett Kilbride, Rolling Meadows, Illinois. 6-9 Individual
• WCSP, Abhinav Prathivadi, Temecula, California. 10-12 Individual
• Zurkon, Branson Junior High School, Branson, Missouri. 6-9 Team (tie)
• Karma International, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto, California. 6-9 Team (tie)
• Aaksh Ganga, Madhya Pradesh, India. 10-12 Team
• MORE, Cortland Jr. High School, Cortland, New York. 6-9 Large Group
• Jafri, Kargil, Jammu & Kashmir, India. Artistic Merit

Honorable Mention:

• Dhoom, Sourabrata Mukherjee, DAV Public School, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India. 6-9 Individual
• Space Colony Design, Rinachi Garg, D.A.V. Public School, Delhi, India. 10-12 Individual
• Got Rice...Finally?, Saint Thomas Aquinas H.S., Dover, New Hampshire. 10-12 Team
• Final Frontier, Freedom High School, Oakley, California. 10-12 Team
• Kalpana-1, New Delhi, New Delhi,India. 6-9 Team
• Zepis, Ralston Middle School, Belmont California. 6-9 Team
• HSC Endurance, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto, California. 6-9 Team
• ISS Pi, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto, California. 6-9 Team
• Indagatrix, Branson Middle School, Branson, Missouri. 6-9 Team
• ISS Spazio, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto, California. 6-9 Team
• Hope 1, Waunakee Community Middle School, Waunakee, Wisconsin. 6-9 Team
• Smarties, Martinez Middle School, Lutz, Florida. 6-9 Team
• Pink Terminators, Ralston Middle School, Belmont, California. 6-9 Team
• MAK, , Delhi, Delhi, India. 6-9 Team
• Styro Gyro, Ridgewood Middle School, Arnold, Missouri. 6-9 Team
• Omega One, Saint Thomas Aquinas School, Dover, New Hampshire. 10-12 Team
• Silver Ring, Hyde Park MS Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada. 6-9 Large group

Teachers

• Tommie Anderson, Branson Jr. High School, Branson, Missouri
• Sultana Ali, Edgewater High School, Orlando, Florida
• Ann Asher, Ridgewood Middle School, Arnold, Missouri
• Mike Baldwin, Collierville Middle School, Collierville, Tennessee
• Matt Gilson, Howard Doolin Middle School, Miami, Florida
• Susan Graham, St. Thomas Aquinas High School, Dover, New Hampshire
• Suniti Gupta, Delhi, India
• Carrie Jeschke, Waunakee Community Middle School, Waunakee, Wisconsin
• Beth Jewell, West Springfield High School, Springfield, Virginia
• Paul Kilbride and Susan Lambert, Rolling Meadows, Illinois
• Adam Koriloff, Margareta Constantinescu and Dr. H. N. Teodorescu, Lyceum "C. Negruzzi" Iasi, Iasi, Romania
• Dorothy Larsen, Bob Martinez Middle School, Lutz, Florida
• Traci Main, Moravia, Iowa
• Maria Orhon, Robert College, Istanbul, Turkey
• Stephanie Passeri, Cortland Jr., Sr. High School, Cortland, NY.
• Arvind Kumar Pathak, DAV Public School, Dhanbad, Jharkhand, India
• Grant Roelf, Hyde Park Academy, Las Vegas, Nevada
• Marian Sarbu, Inspectoratul Scholar Judetean Constanta, Constanta, Romania
• Tug Sezen, Freedom High School, Oakley, California
• Rajeev Thakur, SRI Guru Harkrishan Public School, Punjab, India
• Allan Varni, Jordan Middle School, Palo Alto, California.
• Catherine Vreeland, Ringgold High School, Ringgold, Georgia
• Ms. Sadhna Walia, Ryan International School Rohini, New Delhi, India
• Mr. Saxena, Mr Prasad, Mr. Sirvastava & Mr. Goel, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India
• Mr. Warmkessel, Richboro Middle School, Richboro, Pennsylvania
• Jim Weaver, Kadena Middle School, Okinawa, Japan
• Bryan Yager, Ralston Middle School, Belmont, California.
• Lynn Zielinski, Glenbrook North High School, Northbrook, Illinois

Judges

• Deb Antonini, NASA Headquarters, Washington D. C.
• Victoria Callor, NASA Ames Research Center
• Tom Clausen, NASA Ames Research Center
• Al Globus, NASA Ames Research Center
• Chris Maese, NASA Ames Research Center
• B. J. Navarro, NASA Ames Research Center
• Nicole Rayl, NASA Ames Research Center
• Andrea Solbrig, NASA Ames Research Center
• Hami Teal, NASA Ames Research Center
• Wenonah Vercoutere, NASA Ames Research Center
• John Watkins, NASA Ames Research Center

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