LGS Kabana, a team from the Lahore Grammar School (LGS) Main Gulberg has won the NASA-affiliated Space Settlement Design Competition held in the US. The finals were held on August 2 at the Johnson Space Centre, Texas.

The winner team was from UK, US and Pakistan, LGS students were part of a bigger team. The School administration released a statement:

“This year we are happy to announce the team representing LGS 55 Main, and Pakistan, was the strongest and along with their team mates from Britain and the US were adjudged the winners… The success marks a triumph for Pakistan, and particularly for women who rarely get an opportunity to excel in spheres involving science and advanced technology. It also demonstrates the potential of Pakistani youth, and offers hope at a time when the nation faces many crises.”

This is not the first time that the students from Pakistan has participated before in this event, but they are unable to win the contest. This is the first time in the history of Pakistan that a team from Pakistan has won the competition. In past the students from LGS and Aitchison College have participated in the contest before.

The members of the team included Fatima Jamal Khan, Mahsheed Aamer Iqbal, Minahil Raza, Rabeea Rathore, Saba Farooq, Sanniah Jabeen, Sanaa Nusrat, Maliha Faisal, Maryam Ali Khan, Rawail Naeem, Sara Afzal, Tehniyat Azam and Zahra Batool.

Each year the competition organisers from NASA and Boeing develop a new design concept with its own special requirements. Contesting teams work together to create a 40-page report that addresses the issues and communicates their ideas and designs. Student engineers demonstrate creativity, technical competence, management skills, environmental knowledge, space teamwork, and presentation techniques to solve the problems inherent in designing a colony in space.

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