Category: Announcements

EU Finals announcement

We are happy to announce that the following students have be chosen from the runners up to attend the EU Finals in March.
Congratulations to the following students.
As always, these are listed in alphabetical order.

Bruno Esteves
Catarina Cierco
Daniele Braccia
Francisco Costa
João Pedro Moutinho dos Reis Malheiro
Levi Gomes
Lua Afonso
Lucca Martins Aires de Paula
Martim Machado
Miguel Armindo Nunes
Nimai Alves
Rafael DeBoeuf
Stefano Curtoni
Susana Amaral

Information about the finals will be sent out in the following days.

ISSDC Announcement

We are thrilled to announce that there will be two teams representing the EU this year at the International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISSDC). The event takes place at the Kennedy Space Center and provides a great opportunity for students to compete on an international stage.

These students have demonstrated outstanding skills in engineering, teamwork, and problem-solving, earning their place in this prestigious global competition:

Team EU

Afonso Teixeira, 
Afonso Silva, 
Catarina Dias, 
Giselle de la Caridad González, 
Grace Emily Cleaton, 
Jorge Rodríquez-Viña, 
Jorge Losada, 
José de la Mano, 
Marcelo Lago, 
Nuria Quero Langreo, 
Rodrigo Miguel Saraiva Ferreira, 
Yilin Ma, 

 

Team ESA

Alejandro Wilt Escribano, 
Alexandru Mereuță, 
Ariana Chilea, 
Cristina Martin, 
Daria Cozma, 
Diego Bermejo González, 
Ioana Băiculescu, 
Margherita Castoldi, 
Maria-Karina Gabor-Naidin, 
Sofia Ferretto, 
Tristiano Rigoli, 
Tudor Budisan, 

In addition, we are pleased to announce our reserves,

Female Reserve– 
María Asenjo González

Male Reserve– 
Achille Miglierina


 

Congratulations to all the students, and we look forward to seeing them take on this incredible challenge! 

#ISSDC #SpaceSettlement #STEM #FutureLeaders #NASA #SSEF #EUSDC #United

Happy Holidays from the SSEF


Wishing all our incredible supporters and volunteers a very Merry Christmas and a joyful holiday season! Thank you for your invaluable help and dedication throughout 2024, which has made this year such a success for the SSEF. We truly appreciate your hard work and passion, and we look forward to collaborating with you in 2025 for another fantastic year.

Enjoy the festive season, and here’s to an exciting year ahead!

ISSDC Team Announcement 2024

 

We are thrilled to announce that the following students have been selected to represent the EU at the International Space Settlement Design Competition to be held at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida in July 2024. Congratulations to the selected students.

In alphabetical order:

Alessandro Salina

Alexandru Mereuta

David Díaz

Goncalo Domingos

Juan Barbas

Leonore Mira

María Asenjo

Pablo Gutiérrez

Sarmiza Badelita

Sebastião Mendonça

Tiago Bastos

Vlad Glavan

 

Reserves:

  1. Sara Sion
  2. Claudia Sinziana Balaceanu
  3. Vlad Pagnejer
  4. Pablo Pérez Mosqueda

 

Thank you to each and every participant, teacher, parent, judge, alumni, and volunteer who took part and helped with EUSDC this year…. we couldn’t do this without you! Congratulations again to the selected ISSDC team.

ISSDC Winners!

Congratulations!

Huge congratulations to the EU team who were part of Dougeldyne, the winning company at this year’s ISSDC. The ISSDC is a three day event held at the Kennedy Space Center, and the students work in companies consisting of 50-60 students; this year some of the team were working online, which adds to the difficulty of communicating effectively – so to be in the winning team is reflective of an incredibly difficult task carried out amazingly well.

The EU team consisted of the following members (in alphabetical order!):

Adrian Turtulea
Alessandro Salina
Alexandru Teodorescu Druc
Anastasia Ioana Paraschiv
Enrique Jiménez Molina
Guilherme Abrantes Leal
Lorena Terrón Egido
Maria João Lopes
Pablo Asenjo Gonzalez
Pablo Gutierrez Izquierdo
Rita Ferrão Baptista Fernandes
Sara Sofia dos Reis Filipe

Well done to all of you, and thank you to the accompanying teachers Mónica Juárez Jiménez, Óscar Partida and Ricardo Mota, and also the wonderful parents who made this trip of a lifetime possible.

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