Team DREAMERS win Best Team Award at IIT, Madras
Continuing the journey of success, Team Dreamers have won the `Best Team’ award in the Lunar Rover Challenge organized by team Indus, hosted by IIT, Madras, and the only team that will be participating in the Google Lunar X Prize.
The team comprising of Johnson Tellis, Gautham Nayak, Nishanth Kottary, Sachin Ganesh, Rakhesh Permudannaya, Sona Krishnan, Aman Agarwal, John Nikhil, Preetham, and Achala Shetty were selected as the top team in the Zonal held at IIT, Madras. The team competed against 201 teams from all over India. Team DREAMERS after being selected as top team from the south zone, faced heavy challenges in the finals where they had to compete against fifty teams. After rigorous effort and perseverance DREAMERS got into the top ten finalists. The team DREAMERS was awarded as the `Best Team’ for their innovation, group work and their determination.
 The bot was also appreciated by Michael Meyyer (chief scientist of NASA’s Curiosity Mission) who said, “I have been watching for your bot in the arena and would suggest that you participate in the GOOGLE LUNAR X PRIZE).” He along with Mr. Rahul Narayan (founder of team INDUS) and others who were present there, wished Team DREAMERS good luck!
This is yet another significant win by the team which only recently had won the first place in the challenging event, "The Drill Droid," at the National Students’ Space Challenge’13 at IIT, Kharagpur, the
second place in the IIT event, "Kshitij 2013" for their design "the DREAM Overhaul," and the second place in the event `Lakshman Rekha (line following robot)’, a national level technical fest organised by SNIST, Hyderabad.
The Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) sometimes referred to as Moon 2.0, is a space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. It was announced at the Wired Nextfest on 13 September 2007. The challenge calls for privately-funded spaceflight teams to compete to successfully launch a robotic spacecraft that can land and travel across the surface of the Moon while sending back to Earth specified images and other data.
The Google Lunar X Prize offers a total of US$30 million in prizes to the first privately funded teams to land a robot on the Moon that successfully travels more than 500 meters (1,640 ft) and transmits back high definition images and video. The first team to do so will claim the US$20 million Grand Prize; while the second team to accomplish the same tasks will earn a US$5 million Second Place Prize. Teams can also earn additional money by completing additional tasks beyond the baseline requirements required to win the Grand or Second Place Prize, such as traveling ten times the baseline requirements (greater than 5,000 meters (3 mi), capturing images of the remains of Apollo program hardware or other man-made objects on the Moon, verifying from the lunar surface the recent detection of water ice on the Moon, or surviving a lunar night. Additionally, a US$1 million Diversity Award may be given to teams that make significant strides in promoting ethnic diversity in STEM fields. Finally, Space Florida, one of the "Preferred Partners" for the competition has offered an additional US$2 million bonus to teams who launch their mission from the state of Florida.
Quote for the day
"God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him"
- Jim Elliot
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