2019 NASA Big Idea Challenge

During my first semester at UMD, I was on a team with seven other freshmen competing in the 2018 NASA Big Idea Challenge. This year's challenge was to design an in-depth mission plan to send a fully autonomous greenhouse to Mars. For this competition, I worked as a systems engineer focused on the internals of the habitat. Ultimately, our team designed an inflatable greenhouse that used ice as a radiation shield. The greenhouse included an aquaponics system that provided enough nutrients to a crew of four for a 600 day mission. This project was then presented to a panel of judges at the UMD ENAE100 Symposium where we placed second out of over forty teams. Below is the poster that was used in the presentation.