Fifteen-year-old Nidhi Mayurika hails from Bengaluru, Karnataka. Her incredible innovations have led her to win the NASA Ames Space Settlement Contest for three years Now.
In 2016, she worked on the project named Saikatam which translates to a new home away from home. Saikatam is a three-layered space colony for human settlement on Earth-Moon Lagrange Point 5 situated at 3,85,000 km. It is a space colony for humans to survive, evolve
and self-sustain. She won the first prize for Saikatam.
In the 2017 NASA contest, her project Soham which is used to launch satellites bagged the first prize again. It is a habitable space colony located 350 km away from Earth at LEO, to build and launch satellites, consisting of an Inflatable Space Station.
Nidhi's third project in 2018, was Swastikam, a place for creation. It is a space colony built for synthetically designed and created organisms to adapt, evolve, and be independent in the new ecosystem.
This helps organisms adapt to changes in conditions such as radiation, heat, continuous daylight, and lack of gravity.
She has taken up online programs relating to the universe from The University of Edinburgh, the Australian National University, Boston University and many more. A class IX student of Narayana Olympiad School, Nidhi aims to become a cosmologist and represent India on international platforms. Stay Tuned For More Inspiring Stories!
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