Proud India! Five Indians selected for the prestigious NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge

Telangana, October 13: Indians have always shone out wherever they went- be it is the field of engineering, agriculture or space science. Indian students are going a long way in making the nation proud. From making terrific inventions to participating in world-class events, Indian students are making their mark. Proud India. 

Now five students from a private engineering college in Telangana have been selected for the prestigious NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge. The team of five from the SR Engineering College in Warangal will be participating in the 5th annual NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge to be held in April 2018 that will be held in the US.

The team, which will be led at the event by faculty Manoj Chaudhary, comprises P Paul Vineeth (final year ECE) Prakash Raineni (final mech), P Sravan Rao (final year ECE), R Dilip Reddy (final mech) and V Sneha (final civil), it said. At the April event, these students and their counterparts from other parts of the world will design and create rovers capable of traversing a challenging expolanetary-like landscape, said the release.

"Only four teams from India were shortlisted to compete in the NASA's Rover Challenge. Students from 23 countries are participating in this prestigious competition which challenges students to create a vehicle designed to traverse the simulated surface of another world," the college said in a release today.

The students qualified for the final challenge when they met all the criteria NASA had for selecting participants - preparing a moon buggy, designing, reporting and submitting their idea that makes their buggy work on the surface of the moon, ensuring the safety of its passengers, according to the SR Engineering College.

"We are excited and looking forward to this challenge since it makes us think concepts in 'space exploration' as a subject, which was something we had never considered before. We are confident our rover will conquer the challenge," said the students.