Victory: LGS students to visit Johnson Space Centre

The Lahore Grammar School won the 8th Annual Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition held in India.

LAHORE:

After winning the Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition, a 14-member team of the Lahore Grammar School will visit the Johnson Space Centre, Houston, Texas in July, 2012 for the finals of the International Space Settlement Design Competition (SSDC). 

The Lahore Grammar School won the 8th Annual Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition, the Asian leg of the SSDC, held in Gurgaon, India on January 27, 2012. The team includes Marium Rasheed, Shamin Bashir Shah, Khushbakht Baloch, Michelle Naeem, Habiba Hussain, Zahra Ahmad Khalid, Rida Shehram Sarwar, Faiza Tariq, Wajiha Ali Khan, Abeera Atif, Aliya Maryam Salman, Zoya Sarwar, Mariam Ijaz and Amna Irfan Tarar.

“We had to build a moving settlement named Anconioh on the surface of planet Mercury,” said Rasheed.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 20^th, 2012.