Students of Spring Dale Senior School bagged the second position at the National Space Design Competition jointly organised by US-based National Space Society,NASA and AMES Centre. The team which won the competition consists of Deepak Talwar,Sidak Singh Dhillon,Akshay Dhawan,all students of Class XII and Gaurav Kumar of Class X. They had teamed up with Ishan Mehta,a student from another school in the city. Deepak Talwar and Akshay Dhawan had participated in International Space Settlement Design Competition 2009 and won the Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition. Sidak Dhillon had attended People to People Leadership Summit at Stanford University. The team proposed Okeanos,a settlement that would house around 10,000 people including children,and would have every attribute that Earth has. The name has been derived from Oceanus,a figure of the Greek mythology. Deepak said despite its resemblance with the globe,the proposed space settlement would be a lot more advanced and cleaner. Though we have proposed residences and industries,pollution would be unheard of at Okeanos, he said. Sidak said the proposed settlement would have five important attributes which include structural engineering,operations and automation,human engineering,life support and schedule and cost. Rajiv Sharma,Principal,Spring Dale Senior School,said the process of participating in space design competitions was initiated by late Dr Shivinder Singh Sandhu and this is the third consecutive year when the team from the school has won a competition.
