These were just a few suggestions made by an enthusiastic bunch of 14 to 18-year-olds in the Asian region semi-finals of the International Space Settlement Design Competition hosted by the NASA’s Johnson Space Centre. Their task was to design a holistic plan in 24 hours for a human settlement on moon for 7,500 people.

“The idea behind the competition is to introduce these young students to prevalent trends in the industry, and enable them to acquire management techniques. Many students make important career choices after participating in the competition,” Anita Gale, senior engineer at Boeing’s space exploration division, said. She is the co-founder and a judge in the contest.

This year’s participants include 140 students from India and 40 from Pakistan.

Come July, and the winning team of 24 students — 12 each from India and Pakistan — will head to NASA’s Johnson Space Centre in Houston, Texas, to take part in the final round dubbed the most difficult high-school competition in the United States.

Teams with Indian students, have won the contest four times in the last five years.

“The competition at each stage is designed to be multi-cultural and multi-faceted. The team that won the Asian semi-finals today included students from Springdales School, Amritsar, Lahore Grammar School, Pakistan, and Apeejay School, Delhi. When this team will go to the Johnson Space Centre, it will split up into teams with students from various countries,” Abhishek Agrawal, who got the competition to India, said.