A Harpswell student at the Maine School of Science and Mathematics was part of the winning team in a competition to design a lunar habitation.
Seven students from the school were part of a roughly 40-member team of students from around the U.S. that won the East Coast and Canadian Space Elements Design Competition on April 6. In the competition, teams have 22 hours to create a 50-slide presentation detailing their proposal for a lunar habitation.
Aaron Rose, a senior from Harpswell, was one of the members. Each student had a role in a fictional company creating the design, and Rose was vice president of engineering.
“Even though we had a smaller team than in past years, we pulled together and delivered an outstanding proposal,” Rose said.
The nonprofit Industry Simulation Education organizes space settlement design competitions set in a future when private companies are leading interplanetary colonization. Industry professionals judge proposals and award a contract to the winning team.
The immersive challenge tests students’ engineering, business and presentation skills. Some members of the winning team will be invited to compete in the International Space Settlement Design Competition finals at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Maine School of Science and Mathematics is a public residential high school in Limestone.
