NASA Ames Space Settlement Design Contest 2010: Prateeksha Das from Rourkela has the top individual entry
May 5th, 2010
The web page of this contest is at http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Contest/. The results of the 2010 page is at http://settlement.arc.nasa.gov/Contest/Results/2010/index.html. Following sentence is from that web page.
Prateeksha Das, Ispat English Medium School, Odisha, India’s entry "Paradise Reclaimed" won the inaugural Bruce Clark Memorial scholarship which goes to the top individual entry.
She is from the 11-12 grade.
Following is from Dharitri.
Last year a team from Bhubaneswar co-won the grand prize.
Entry Filed under: NASA Space Settlement Contest,Rourkela-Rajgangpur area (2)
16 Writeup
1. Biswa | May 5th, 2010 at 10:45 am
This is a superb achievement.
Congrats Prateeksha and her mentors!
2. Kshirod Rout | May 5th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
Congrats! Prateeksha.
We are proud of you. Hope you must guide our other students in the same direction.
3. alok | May 5th, 2010 at 5:14 pm
Its a great news and makes me feel proud as i have completed my secondary education from this school.Congrats Pratiksha.You made Orissa proud.Proud to be part of IEMS Rourkela and to inform you all its the only school in Orissa which comes in top 100 ICSE schools of India.In the past many students have brought laurels and one of them was my close friend who was first in Physics olympiad in India and got bronze in international level.I dont think any other school has acihieved the amount of success like IEMS has.Its still the best school of Rourkela.So even after getting so many talents we are not able to make Rourkela the education capital of Orissa.Whom to blame we the people or the govt.
4. shubham | May 5th, 2010 at 7:43 pm
pratiksha didi i congrats you on your marvellous achievement.yu have abright carreer god bless you
5. Ashis | May 5th, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Kudos to prakriti.Go to Chicago and give the world the best you have, and the best will come to you!
Congratulations!. We odia’s are proud of you.This achievement should be encircled to all the schools in odisha.This is also a high time for Gov of odisha to think about Rourkela.
6. Dillip Kumar Mohanty | May 6th, 2010 at 6:07 am
Congratulations Prateeksha
She has maintained the rich legacy of IEMS,Rourkela which has been producing talents not for Rourkela, but for the whole world since ages.
The first such a team to qualify for NASA was from this school in 2005 and the news was a local media hit for many months. It was the individual efforts that made it a grand success.
But the government channel DD-1 hardly paid any attention to it (They think Bhubaneswar is Odisha)
We have a number of notable persons from this school
Mira Nair( famous producer,director)
Hindol Basu(Sports journalist-DD-1 National)
Mahavir Agarwal ( presented India in an international olympiad in Australia and bagged a silver medal)
Avinash Mohanty
Aniket Bose (Highest ever mark scorer in 12th exams in Odisha)
and many more
IEMS gives Odisha its 12th topper every year but hardly its recognized because most of the schools are CBSE and the rest dont take care beyond Bhubnaeswar
Rourkela is the talent capital of Odisha, the no.1 engineering institute was established here(NIT)
The schools here have produced high quality students still this city is lagging far behind. Some notable steps shuld be taken by the state
BPUT’s full operation from Rourkela
Quality engg colleges,medical college,MBA-MCA colleges,Pharmacy,Hotel Management institutions etc.
When Prince Dance Group won the 1st prize a dance academy was proposed to be established at Berhampur
Now similarly a research institute (Central) must be established in Rourkela
7. Sweekar pradhan | May 6th, 2010 at 9:02 am
Congratulations prateeksha you made Odisha proud.Not only odisha but also whole india.Your project is outstanding.keep it up and keep up the good work.we all are with you.
8. SUBHASIS SAMAL | May 6th, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Hurrraahh.. Congratulations Prateeksha..After Swami Vivekananda, it’s you, of course you are too little one but starting with a BIG-BANG..Till you win the award you belonged to India, now the entire world looks to you, your ideas, your ledership..Keep going and malke the world still a bettel place to live..We really feel proud to be ODIA..The blessing and best wishes of entire ODISHA and INDIA is with you..Wish you Good Luck..
9. Amit Pasayat | May 7th, 2010 at 11:42 am
Excellent…….!!!!!
Congrats to Prateeksha.
10. ripu sudan agarwal | May 8th, 2010 at 11:46 am
kudos to you on a remarkable achievement ……..you have got glory and fame to india …….and odisha in particular ……….
it is really commendable for such a young girl like you to be invited by NASA to attend its national conference scheduled to be held at chicago …..you hav become inspiration for youngsters like us …..
congratulations once again ….
11. anisha | May 9th, 2010 at 12:48 pm
very gud………………
girl like u will forward our nation………
so best of luck
attend the conference and share some interesting things with
god bless u !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
anisha
12. soumya | May 23rd, 2010 at 10:35 am
kudos to prateeksha for continuing the legacy of IEMS………….
13. Aakash patil | May 30th, 2010 at 6:32 am
gREAT…Cograts..I am very eager to know about your project. please send me the url of your project. else send the copy of your project to me on patilaakash2010@gmail.com
14. Pallavi sahoo | June 9th, 2010 at 12:05 am
wow…………….congrats prateeksha…..i am proud to be a part of i.e.m.s. and odisha and India…….to which u have brought immense glory………God bless u with success and happiness……………
15. Alok Ranjan Sethi | June 10th, 2010 at 4:58 pm
superb prateeksha ,keep going in ur life.You h’ve made iems-20,RKL & ORISSA proud.u h’ve added just another glory to the school.i’m sure ur achievement w’ll bring out many hidden talent’s of the students of RKL to the NATIONAL & INTERNATIONAL forum.GOD bless u in ur every path of life.
16. Zubair bangroo,kashmir | August 22nd, 2010 at 3:56 pm
Congrates n bst of luck 4 ur future. U hv shwd d world dt wat an indian stdnt cn do
4m last 2 years im also partispating in dis contest n i hope i vl gt d best result so dt we vl achve all