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Patiala Teens to Design Moon CityA group of teenagers from Patiala will rub shoulders with the NASA engineers and take up the formidable task of designing a city to be built on the moon when they travel to the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, next month. The 18 students of the Budha Dal Public School and Thapar Institute of Engineering and Technology in Patiala, have earned the distinction of becoming the first Indian team ever to qualify for the Space Settlement Design Competition at NASA.
The team, which registered for the competition organised by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics under the name "Team Force", is also the only foreign squad this year to have qualified for the final round of the competition to be held in Kennedy Space Center from July 17 to July 19.
The team, which met US Ambassador David C. Mulford here today, is gung-ho about its chances in the final round in which it will be led by a NASA engineer in designing a city for the moon.
Abhishek Agarwal, a first year engineering student at the Thapar Institute, whose brainchild the qualifying project was, said: "We registered very late for the competition, hence did not get much time to work on the initial project. But we still got selected. It is like a dream come true to go to NASA and work on a project there. We will make the most of it."
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