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Young Tinker’s HERC Team created history by becoming India’s 1st interdisciplinary U-19 Team to be selected for NASA Human Rover Challenge. The team received World Rank 3 and the Videography Award.
Young Tinker Rover Team 2021 (Formerly NaPSAT)
The journey started when our founder, Er. Anil Pradhan, dreamt of preparing a student team for the NASA Rover Challenge. Young Tinker Foundation helped mentors connect with students across India to teach subjects using hands-on learning pedagogy.
Navonmesh Prasar Foundation (now Young Tinker Foundation) received World Rank 3 in the High School Division. Additionally, the team also received the Videography Award.
The whole process started 8 months ago when Young Tinker mentors interviewed around 800 students and selected the top 10 students, who later became part of the Young Tinker Rover Team 2021.
Among those 10 students, there were 3 who came from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. One worked as a bicycle mechanic, another is a girl working in a roadside welding shop, and the third is a migrant laborer.
Stories of Change
About the challenge
NASA Human Exploration Rover Challenge features an engineering design challenge to engage students worldwide in the next phase of human space exploration This year NASA selected our proposal and invited our team to Huntsville, Alabama, USA in April, 2021.
Gallery : HERC 2021
Our rover in action
Know the team members
Newspaper Cover Feature
Young Tinker Rover in News
Educators & Facilitators
Sunil Pradhan
Electronics Engineer
Anurag Behera
Electronics Engineer
Amit Panigrahi
Sectroscopy Engineer
Sidhant Patra
Structural Engineer
Umesh Ekka
Mechanical Engineer
Santosh Mishra
Mechanical Engineer
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