On April 4th 2018, SAAM TV reporter met the team of students and teachers at the Orchid school where children shared their experiences and stories behind evolution of the Space Settlement Model.
The Orchid team’s design that bagged the 1st prize in the class IX large group category included Aditya Nebhrajani, Arnav Kalgutkar, Shlok Pande, Ojas Davare, Aryan Deore, Galav Sharma and Aditya Deshmukh from the ninth grade, and Dhruv Jadhav, Chinmay Kharche, Ved Joshi, and Arshia Joshi from the seventh grade.
The Orchid School won the First Prize in the Worldwide NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest 2018- a worldwide competition held by NASA, National Space Society and the San Jose University. This was the schools debut entry in the contest and like past years, NASA received more than 2500 entries for this competition from an estimated 10000 students from around the world.