BRAHMAS WILL SEND EXPERIMENT INTO SPACE !!!
Earlier in the week, we announced that a team of Brahmas had entered NASA's TechRise Student Challenge against approximately 600 teams nationwide. We are pround to announce that they were one of the 57 teams selcted as winners!
MEMBERS OF OUR DBHS TEAM: Jeffrey Gong, Jason Kim, William Li, Duncan Seshiki, Jessica Wang and Allison Yuh
“Our team brainstormed and designed an experiment that tested the feasibility of biodegradable and edible pods to hold liquid in space,” Yuh said. “We are aiming to improve the sustainability of space exploration as life on the space station often uses nonrenewable and wasteful resources.”
The winning teams will each receive $1,500 to build their experiments and a NASA-funded spot to test them, either on suborbital rocket flights operated by Blue Origin or UP Aerospace, or on a high-altitude balloon flight from Raven Aerostar. Experiments assigned to high-altitude balloon flights will have more than four hours of flight time for testing experiments, while those flying on suborbital rockets will have three minutes of testing in microgravity. The teams also will receive a suite of materials for preparing their payloads, access to flight simulator software, and technical support from experts.
The selected student teams will build the payloads in preparation for flight test, targeted to take place in early 2023.
NASA's inaugural nationwide challenge is designed to attract, engage, and prepare future science, technology, engineering, and mathematics professionals. The winning teams of the NASA TechRise Student Challenge will gain real world STEM experience by building experiments that autonomously operate and collect data from the edge of space aboard a suborbital rocket or a high-altitude balloon.
A slate of nearly 500 volunteer judges, including teachers, NASA personnel, and technology subject matter experts, offered their time, passion, and expertise to review entries and select winners across a broad geographic distribution. Proposals were evaluated on criteria including the originality of their flight experiment idea, its impact on education and/or society, and the quality of the build plan.