Students of the Dr. Miguel Canela Lázaro Scientific High School, of Hermanas Mirabal Province, won one of the awards in the twenty-seventh edition of NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC) international competition.
The youth won the secondary division in the Task Challenge category thanks to the design and construction of a 3D printed water sample collection tool.
“3D printing is fundamental to human space exploration and #HERC. The teams had to design and build a 3D printed tool to collect liquid samples. The winners are: Scientific Lyceum in the Secondary Education Department and Trine University in the Universities Department, ”announced the NASA Rover Challenge program this Friday morning via his Twitter account.
The competition prizes, which, like last year, were awarded almost as a result of the pandemic, were awarded in eight different categories, in addition to the recognitions given to the overall winners of the challenge.
3D printing is critical to human space exploration as well #HERCTeams had to design and build a 3D printed tool for collecting fluid samples. The winners are: Liceo Cientifico High School in the high school division and Trine University in the college division. pic.twitter.com/GU3ymJ2Ea5
– NASA Rover Challenge (@RoverChallenge) April 16, 2021
The Dominican team included Ashley Severino, Javier Mordan, Yerlin Duarte, Eydan Peña, Enmanuel Solano, Christopher Mercado, Guadalupe Bonilla, Darla Castillo, Melvin Núñez and Ilhen Duarte. The young people had professors Ender Araujo and Waldu González as mentors.
The Liceo Científico Dr. Miguel Canela Lázaro has been participating in international competitions since 2018. With its fourth entry, it will be the first Dominican high school team to win an award.
In 2020, a team from the Instituto Tecnológico de 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 manned space mission planning technologies.