Space Colony Contest 1995 Results

Statistics

There were a total of 41 submissions by about 145 participants (up from 23/60 last year). Four ninth grade classes had required projects. Several students from one seventh grade class and a few students from one high school class participated.

Winners

The efforts of all the participants were greatly appreciated, and we hope that they will submit new and improved space settlement designs next year. Better yet, we hope they will be building real space settlements a few decades hence. In any case, these were the contestants judged to have the best entries:

Grand Prizes

There was a tie for the grand prize, one was judged particularly strong technically, the other artistically.

Technical Merit

• Turhan Herder
• Stephen Shepherd
• John Hirst

Artistic Merit

• Michael G. Leong
• Gary M. Diaz
• Michael Bottom

Note: there were individual and team prizes for two groups: 6-9th grade and 10-12th grade, there were a few ties, and team members are listed in alphabetical order.

First Prizes

• Matthew King, 6-9
• Chris Biagi, Patrick Hall, Ryan Lewis, Brandon Lindhart, Jimmy Ray, 6-9
• Neel Amin, 10-12

Second Prizes

• Gerald M. Diaz, 6-9
• Shannon Crum, Lauren Fukunaga, Kristin Lew, Greg Lytle, Karisa Nguyen, 6-9

Third Prizes

• Spencer Cross, 6-9
• Jarred T. Davis, 6-9
• Gilbert Acosta, Andrew Lek, Kris Pacho, 6-9
• Melissa Mendoza, Grace Mesde, Jean Panilag, 6-9

There is one special mention for artistic merit:

• Nelly Acosta, Riza Guevarra, Virginia McQuiston, Natalie O'Roarke, Angela Smith, 6-9

Teachers

Several teachers involved their classes in this contest. Many of their students were in the winner's circle above. The teachers are (in alphabetical order):

• Beth Bero, Academy for Science and Foreign Language, Huntsville, AL
• Stuart Briber, Independence High School, San Jose, CA
• Brien Sparling, Live Oak High School, Morgan Hill, CA
• Tug Sezen, John Swett High School, Crockett, CA

Space settlement home page.

Curator: Al Globus If you find any errors on this page contact Al Globus.

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