ROURKELA: Steel City girl Eeshanee Tripathy has brought laurels to the State by securing first position in Grade-XI category of the prestigious NASA-AMES Space Settlement Design Contest 2017, hosted by NASA and National Space Society (NSS).
Her project ‘The Space Settlement of AURA’ is based on innovative designs and futuristic science as well as technologies feasible in space. She was invited by NSS to present her project work in the upcoming 36th Annual International Space Development Conference (ISDC) at St Louis, US to be held from May 25 to 29.
Her project was selected from more than 1,500 projects from students all over the world. She is the only student from Odisha to win the contest this year. Recently, Eeshanee was felicitated by the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India as the Best Child Scientist of Odisha for winning first prize in the State and representing the State in the National Children’s Science Congress.