Posted at 1:34 a.m., Friday, November 16, 2007
HCC students win design competition
Advertiser Staff
The Honolulu Community College (HCC) Lunar Habitat Student Design Competition team has been named "overall winner" of the national Pacific International Space Center for Exploration Systems (PISCES) Lunar Outpost Student Design Competition, a UH news release announced yesterday.The event was part of PISCES' first ever conference held last week in Hilo.
HCC, the only community college in the competition, bested teams from schools such as Purdue University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Colorado, after being selected as a finalist for the competition that charges students to design a habitat capable of sustaining human life on the moon. HCC's entry featured four interconnected spheres that formed a habitat with a unit for sleeping, command, biomass production and community activities.
PISCES, which is dedicated to developing technologies to allow human life to thrive on the moon and other planets in the future, is housed at the University of Hawai'i at Hilo and is a partnership between the State of Hawai'i, various international space programs, global industry and academia.
