Gurugram high school student Aryan Jain is among the winners of an app development challenge organized by NASA. Aryan Jain is among the winners of NASA’s Artemis Next-Gen STEM – this year’s Moon to Mars App Development Challenge, according to a press release.
A student at Suncity School, Gurugram (Haryana), he had joined six U.S. high school students. The competition is a coding challenge in which NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) presents technical difficulties to high school students and seeks their contribution to deep space exploration missions.
The team developed a six-member app using the Unity cross-platform game engine and programmed it in C #. By taking part in the challenge, the students took part in Artemis Generation’s efforts to land astronauts – including the first and second female – on the Moon by 2024, according to the news.
In this year’s challenge, organized by NASA’s Space and Navigation Communications Team (SCaN), participants were asked to develop an app to view the Lunar South Pole to aid in mission planning and exploration activities.