Competitions
Topic - Life On Mars
- Target audience : Grade 8 - 12
- No. of participants: Max a group of 2 / individual
- Details: Pour down your thoughts into some extraordinary fiction story on the given topic and deep dive into the universe of infinity because imagination has no limits.
- Limitation: A word limit of 750 words.
- Deadline: To submit your completed work (5th October 2021)
- Winners: Will be announced on (10th October 2021) and will win a fantastic prize! (Keep checking the website for updates about the competition).
Topic - Earth from an Astronaut’s perspective
- Target audience : Anyone can participate.
- No. of participants: Individual
- Details: We welcome digital painting / computer graphics (2d & 3d) / dynamic paintings / digital collage / pixel art / songs / dance / poetry / Sketches / paintings that portray you as an astronomer if you looked at the big giant earth what all possible could you see, dust, stars, something unexpected! Then let's go and find out and show it to everyone.
- Requirement : A 1 minute video that explains your art. It must not be submitted anywhere else before the competition. We will strictly monitor plagiarism.
- Deadline: To submit your work (6th October 2021) [Art + Video]
- Winners: Will be announced on ( 10th October 2021) and will win an amazing prize! (keep checking the website for updates about the competition)
- Target audience : Undergraduates
- No. of participants: 2-5 Members in each group
- Details: Design something electrifying that you think could be a potential solution for space missions.
- Deadline for Video:Explaining the designed model. The selected finalist will be announced on (7th October 2021)
- Presentation Date: 8th October 2021
- Winners: Will be announced on (10th October 2021) and will win a fantastic prize! (keep checking the website for updates about the competition)
- Target audience: High School students + Undergraduates + Aspiring Entrepreneurs
- No. of participants: Individual/team of 5 people
- Details: For the selection process, share a small written proposal giving an exact plan of your idea. The word limit is 500 words. We will inform selected proposals about the final presentation round via registered email.
- Deadline: To submit your written proposal (5th October 2021)
- Presentation: 9th October 2021, (Selected finalists will get a platform to pitch their ideas)
- Winners: Will be announced on (10th October 2021) and will win an amazing prize! (keep checking the website for updates about the competition)
- Target audience:
- Grades 3 to 6
Problem Statement
A mysterious hole has been discovered at the Earth’s North Pole. Hours later, it was found that the hole ends at the south pole. One of the scientists falls into the hole at the North pole while conducting experiments. What happens to the scientist when he falls into the hole and how can you bring him out of the hole when the core is not considered to be hot?
- Grades 3 to 6
- Grade 7 - 12
Problem Statement
Scientist at the ESA have spotted a 30 mile wide asteroid hurtling towards Earth and by estimations, will collide in approximately 6 months.
With an impact of that magnitude, half of the earth’s population would be wiped clean!
Now, if you were to be a scientist of ISRO/ESA/NASA with access to all current technologies, how would you avert this catastrophe?
Note: The solution should be practical and feasible within a span of 6 months.
- Grade 7 - 12
- No. of participants: Individual/Group participation
- Deadline: 14 October, 10:00 am, IST
- Winners: Will be announced on the 17th of October with participation certificate to all the participants. Schools students will be get Philastra Membership for 6 months
- Judging criteria: Special Judges
- Target audience : Grade 1 - 12
- No. of participants:
- Categories: Juniors & Seniors
- Details: Song/Music/Drawings/Poems
- Format: For Music/songs - MP3/MP4/Mov/Mkv/Wav
Poems - A Google Document
Drawing - An image file accompanied by a small video showing the participant working on it. - Deadline : 11 October, 10:00 am, IST
- Winners: Will be announced on the 17th of October with a participation certificate to all the participants.
- Judging criteria: Special Judges (50%) + Voting (50%)
- Target audience : Grade 5 - 12
- No. of participants:
- Details: A short 4 min video explaining any topic related to space science.
- Deadline for Video:11 October, 10:00 am, IST
- Winners: Will be announced on the 17th of October with a participation certificate to all the participants.
- Judging criteria: Special Judges (50%) + Voting (50%)
- Details:
With great enthusiasm, we present to you an event filled with zest, ‘Interstellar Design Competition’. I.D.C. is an opportunity to discover your imagination along with your architectural skills, creativity and much more.
Imagine this unique scenario. Humans, having destroyed most resources available naturally, the global climate conditions lead us to a herculean task of exploring other worlds. And to do so, we require spaceships, designs of colonies etc. Execution of this duty requires the best of designers to gear up and put on their thinking caps! So all you need to do is make designs on the ideas you think will help in continuing our species' existence and submit them. Format of submission: Upload the document in Google Slides with a basic description of your idea.
- Target audience : Undergraduates
- No. of participants: Individual / group upto 5 members
- Deadline: 13 October, 10:00 am, IST
- Winners:Will be announced on the 17th of October, Certificates to top 3 participants + surprise prize.
- Judging criteria: Special Judges (50%) + Voting (50%)
- Prizes: Certificates to the top 2 and a 20% discount on SSERD’s Internship Programme.
Fictioneers fortress
- Target audience: Undergraduates
- No. of participants: Individual / group upto 5 members
- Details:
Usually, our brains are riddled with countless questions, ideas and thoughts after watching a blockbuster Sci-Fi thriller, such as Interstellar.
Well, he’s a chance for all the aspiring Sci-Fi writers. Step up your imagination, voyage out to the unknowns of space and develop a great script for a space-themed Sci-Fi adventure movie and an amazing poster for the same.
Format of submission: A G. Doc file containing both, the script (word limit of 3000) and a poster.
- Deadline: To submit your completed work (12 th october 2021)
- Winners: Certificates to top 3 participants + surprise prize
- Judging criteria: Special Judges (50%) + Voting (50%)
- Target audience: Undergraduates
- No. of participants: Individual/group up to 5 members
- Details: A problem statement related to the current challenge in space will be provided to you on 29th August 2021, which will test your logical and organized skills. All you need to do is give the most efficient solution
- Format of submission: A Google Doc has to be created with a clear description of the idea
- Deadline:To submit your completed work (12th October 2021)
- Winners: Certificates to top 3 participants + surprise prize
- Judging criteria: Special Judges
- Problem Statement:
Humanity, with its current technological capabilities takes about 9 months for a trip to planet Mars. The travel-time stands as a major hurdle in achieving the long-standing ambition to colonize Mars. That is where we require teams of sharp minds to brainstorm and develop an idea, a key to unlock the door to our civilization's future.
'Find an efficient way to reduce the time for a trip to Mars.'
Bear in mind, long voyages take a toll on the human body.
Note: Solutions covering such additional challenges will be awarded points while judging.
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