BEAM ME UP SCOTTY!

Our July 9th meeting was a recap of the visioning exercise and reports from Directors on their objectives for the 
coming year.It is going to be a busy and fun year ahead.

Before we got into the club stuff we had some really bright students from Princess Margaret Secondary telling us about a competition that they were competing in that is supported by NASA.
It is the ISSDC (International Space Settlement Design Competition).
They have been selected to represent Canada in the Finals to be held at the Space Centre in Houston Texas.
The team they had to design a Settlement for 10,000 people with every aspect detailed and quantified. They call their Settlement -"Bellevisat"-A colony built as a primary heavy manufacturing center in zero gravity. It is used for in-space manufacturing. Named as a reference to the Spanish phrase, Belle Vista, or beautiful view.

To get an idea of the detail here is the link to previous years submission from the Princess Margaret students
‎data.delos.com/spaceset/pdf7/pr.margaret-surrey.pdf

It was completed down to the design of the houses.Recreation,food production,sanitation .. 
You name it they detailed it a lot of work involving many hours a day while also maintaining their grades.

They are one of 12 schools Worldwide that made it to the finals and they certainly impressed us.