Principal, Guru Nanak Public School, R S Gill, said, “The team comprises 9 students and three advisers. The competition is a high-intensity intellectual experience that emulates real proposal teams in industry. The theme of the project is that by 2067, NASA is to establish a space colony as the earth will be rendered unsuitable for human beings. This colony will be situated between Mars and Jupiter, close to the asteroid belt,” said Grewal.

The students of GNPS secured the 10th position in the Asian region. GNPS, along with Vivek High School, Chandigarh and Research Academy, Lahore will be part of one company, Grumbo Aerspace. The company will give a final presentation and compete with three others.

“The companies securing first and second position will proceed to Johnson Space Centre, Houston to participate in the final round in July 2008. The third company will have to modify its project,” said Kuldeep Singh Grewal, one of the advisers of the GNPS team and Head of the school’s Physics Department.

The other two advisers are Neha and Kanwar Nihal Singh, both students of Electronic Engineering at Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology, Patiala. The duo has already visited NASA.

Meanwhile, the students are confident of a victory. While six of them are Class X, three are from Class XI.

Jasmandeep Kaur, a Class X student, said, “I have worked on the human factors for the project. The living conditions were proposed by me. I am sure we will win”.