KIET students win NASA’s Best Design Award; felicitated by President of India

NEW DELHI, JULY 10: A team of five students from Krishna Institute of Engineering Technology (KIET), Ghaziabad, was felicitated by President Ram Nath Kovind at the Rashtrapati Bhavan for winning the 2019 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ (AIAA) Neil Armstrong Best Design Award in the NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge held at the US Space and Rocket Center in Alabama.

The Team Interstellars led by mechanical engineering student Shatakshi Dwivedi and her team members Abhimanyu Bhagat, Utkarsh Sharma, Prajwal Singh and Suyash Yadav won the competition by beating 115 teams from different parts of the world including Germany, Bolivia, Peru, Egypt and the US.

Speaking on the occasion, the KIET’s team advisor Tuhin Srivastava said, “It’s an incredible end to what has been an incredible journey. It has been an overwhelming experience and the fact that our achievement has been recognized by our respected President is both humbling and joyous. I am extremely proud of the team and grateful for the support of their families and the KIET faculty and leadership. It is our collective dream that has helped us reach this far.”

NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge is an annual competition that challenges college students to create a rover designed to traverse the simulated surface of another world. The design is supposed to perform the tasks of a rover and simultaneously cross obstacles laid down on its way.