Students of Sri Saradha Vidyalayam Matriculation Higher
Secondary School in Madurai who have won third prize in the NASA Ames Space
Settlement Design Contest. Photo: G. Moorthy
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“Cronus-The
Utopia”, a work of fiction, by five students of Sri Sarada Vidyalayam Girls
Matriculation Higher Secondary School in the city has won the third prize in
the NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest – 2014, under the Literary Merit
category.
The team comprising class XI
students _ S.B. Vishaka Nandini, M. Shenbagam, K. Kamali, P. Dhivya Priya and
S.G. Yogalakshmi, is the only one from Tamil Nadu to have won the prize. Set in
2250 AD, the story narrates how rapid depletion of natural resources on earth
forces human beings to settle in Cronus, a fictional space orbit of Saturn.
“In the recent years,
depletion of natural resources in Earth is rapid. In our work of fiction, we
have created Cronus, which is diverse from Earth in so many ways.
The resources available are
all similar to the Earth, but those living there are well efficient in
conservation of nature and are unaware of corruption and other vices prevailing
here,” said Ms. Nandini.
“In contrast to the present
day Earth, where waste is not managed properly and chemical fertilisers are
used in agriculture, inhabitants of Cronus are very efficient in recycling
waste, make best use of solar and wind power, and use bio fertilisers in their
aeroponic farms,” explained Ms. Yogalakshmi.
The NASA Ames Space
Settlement Design Contest is conducted since 1994 and this is the first time
the school took part in it, said B. Kanagalakshmi, a teacher in the school.
The competitions were
conducted under different categories such as Artistic Merit, Literary Merit and
Projects on Space Settlement.
Under the Literary Merit
category, there is a tie between Arecibo Observatory Space Academy, Puerto
Rico, and Ryan International School, New Delhi, for the first prize. For the
second prize, there is a tie between Sri Chaitanya Techno School and Rajiv
Gandhi University of Knowledge Technologies (RGUKT), both from Andhra Pradesh.
The prizes would be distributed to the students at Los Angeles in May.
Source :
http://www.thehindu.com/
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