A group of engineering students from a private Ghaziabad college were awarded the Neil Armstrong Award for Best Design in the college category in the 25th Annual Rover Challenge held from April 12-13 at the US Space and Rocket Center in Alabama.
The four-member team from Krishna Institute of Engineering and Technology was competing among 115 teams from all over the world in presenting the best design for a Mars Rover.
‘Team Interstellars’ was led by Shatakshi Dwivedi, a mechanical engineering student, who was also the driver, and comprised Abhimanyu Bhagat, an electrical engineering student, and Utkarsh Sharma and Suyash Yadav, both pursuing mechanical engineering. The four students had been preparing for the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge since September 2018.
“The students had been working hard on the project for the past six months. They were participating for the first time and yet they managed to win against teams who had been competing for the past 20 years,” said Tuhin Srivastava, the team advisor from the college faculty.
Read more of this in a report by Amil Bhatnagar published in The Indian Express...
