Students of the Scientific High School Dr. Miguel Canela Lázaro, from the Germanes Mirabal province, won one of the prizes in the twenty-seventh edition of NASA’s international Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) competition.
The youngsters won the secondary division in the Task Challenge category thanks to the design and construction of a 3D printed tool to collect water samples.
“3D printing is critical to human space exploration and #HERC. Teams had to design and build a 3D printed tool to collect liquid samples. The winners are: Liceu Científic in the high school division and Trine University in the University Division, ”NASA’s Rover Challenge program announced this Friday morning via its Twitter account.
The competition awards, which like last year was held virtually as a result of the pandemic, were handed out in eight different categories, in addition to the recognitions given to the overall winners of the challenge.
3D printing is essential for the exploration of human space and #HERC. The teams had to design and build a 3D printed tool for collecting liquid samples. The winners are: Liceo Cientifico High School in the secondary division and Trine University in the university division. pic.twitter.com/GU3ymJ2Ea5
– NASA Rover Challenge (@RoverChallenge) April 16, 2021
The Dominican team consisted of Ashley Severino, Javier Mordan, Yerlin Duarte, Eydan Peña, Emmanuel Solano, Christopher Mercado, Guadalupe Bonilla, Donar-Castell, Melvin Núñez and Ilhen Duarte. The young people were mentored by teachers Ender Araujo and Waldu González.
The Liceu Científic Dr. Miguel Canela Lázaro has been participating in international competition since 2018. In his fourth participation, he becomes the first Dominican high school team to win an award.
In 2020 a team from the Technological Institute of Santo Domingo (Intec) won the university division in the System Safety Challenge category.
NASA’s Rover Challenge is an annual competition for college and high school students that encourages research and development of new technologies for manned space mission planning.