EUSDC 2021 & ISSDC Qualifiers

Congratulations and well done to all participants of the first continent-wide European Space Design Competition, EUSDC 2021!

68 dedicated participants, 7 European Nations, 3 competing companies, 28 invaluable volunteers. 

The challenge presented to Kepler Automation, DaVinci Meccanica, and Earhart Advanced Industries was to design a preliminary research base to be constructed in Earth orbit before heading off to Jupiter’s moon, Europa. The purpose? To explore the potential for life.

The incredible efforts put in by all across the three companies has made judging a difficult task. Alas, one company must be selected as the champions of the competition. This year, the title of the EUSDC winning company is Kepler Automation. Well done to all 23 students for convincing the judges with your winning design proposals!

Nathan Besch  President	Isabel de Avillez  Structures
Thomas Schlesser  Vice President — Engineering	Bernardo Rodrigues  Structures
Mário Daniel Soares Vilas  Vice President — Marketing & Sales	Süleyman Emre ISIK  Structures
Guillermo Baselga Gómez  HoD Structures	André Costa  Structures
Mathilde  Dziechciarz   HoD Operations	Arthur Nogueira  Structures
Mafalda Gaspar  HoD Human Factors	Rafael Pereira  Automations
Ricardo Horta  HoD Automations	Alejandro Soriano  Operations
Marina Guerra Alonso  Human Factors	Yannis Kühn  Operations
Sara Evangelio Motilla  Human Factors	Álvaro Cameo Hernanz  Systems Engineer
Lucía Madonar  Human Factors	Guilherme Sousa  CAD
Joana da Conceição Ferreira Piçarra Human Factors	João Lourenço  Business
Duarte Rito Marques  Business

 

From all participants, only 12 entrants can qualify for the World Finals this summer. From 30th July – 2nd August 2021, qualifiers from around the world will gather in person and online at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center to take part at the 2021 International Space Settlement Design Competition (ISSDC). Through a rigorous selection process, the EUSDC is proud to congratulate the following 12 students who will be representing Europe at this year’s ISSDC:

Nathan Besch Kepler — President	Mafalda Gaspar Kepler — HoD Human Factors
Thomas Schlesser Kepler — VP Engineering	Mário Daniel Soares Vilas Kepler — VP Marketing & Sales
Guillermo Baselga Gómez Kepler — HoD Structures	Marina Guerra Alonso Kepler — Human Factors
Isabel de Avillez Kepler — Structures	Yannis Kühn Kepler — Operations
Mathilde Dziechciarz Kepler —HoD Operations

Traditionally, participants with the highest number of votes from the challenging companies join the representatives of the winning company. In recognition of their outstanding effort, the following students have been selected:

Maria João Lopes DaVinci — HoD Human Factors

Ioana Barbu DaVinci — HoD Structures

Leeloo Schindelhauer Earhart — HoD Structures

The following individuals have been selected as the ISSDC 2021 reserves in the stated order:

Sara Evangelio Motilla Kepler — Human Factors

André Mota Earhart —HoD Operations

Felipe Abengózar DaVinci — Structures

Once again, congratulations! Not only to the ISSDC qualifiers, but to all taking part for making this year’s edition of the EUSDC other-worldly. Special thanks to International Space University for digitally hosting, PTSpace & Ciência Viva for their outreach and enthusiasm, and to all the volunteers from across the world for supporting us.

Watch this space! Last year the SSEF was offered a few last-minute spaces to even up team sizes; we will allocate these to the reserves and those nominated for ISSDC selection.

EUSDC 2020 Qualifiers to ISSDC

EU students to the ISSDC

There will be four student spaces on the EU team that will be headed to the International SDC at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center the end of July. The team will be self funded. Announcements will be made later in the spring

EUSDC 2019 Qualifiers to ISSDC

Winning members

EUSDC 2018 Qualifiers to ISSDC

The following have been invited to join the EU team. This is not funded by the UKSDC, and individuals will be expected to find their own sources of funding. We will happily advise on potential sources of funding if requested.

Dougeldyne (in alphabetical order)

  Georgia Aspinall – The Brooksbank School

   Corinne Barker – The Brooksbank School

   Emyr Williams – Dulwich College

Dougeldyne reserves(in order):

   Andre Nowaczek – Dulwich College

   Benjamin Miller – Dulwich College

   Emily Swift – Bournemouth School for Girls

Grumbo (in alphabetical order)

   Sherry Deng – Cardiff Sixth Form College

  Molly Fisher-Newton – Bede’s School

  Felix Larner – St Paul’s Catholic College

Grumbo reserves  (in order):

Amaan Abbas – Cardiff Sixth Form

Tim Scott-Ruit – Bede’s School

Michael Crummey – St Paul’s Catholic College

Rockdonnell (in alphabetical order)

 Bruce Lay – St Mary Redcliffe and Temple School

 William Edwards – Trinity School of John Whitgift

 Ana Vukasovic – Kingham Hill School

Rockdonnell reserves (in order):

  Anastasia Sheptitskaya – Francis Holland School

   James Reid – Trinity School of John Whitgift

  Thomas Hudson – Woodchurch High School

Vulture (in alphabetical order)

Hugo Binelli-Thomas – Ardingley College

Sophia Lee Roberts – City of London School for Girls

Annabelle York – Nonsuch High School for Girls     

Reserves (in order):

Abigail Horton – Ardingley College

Tom Hobbs –  City of London Freemen’s School

Anahita Laverack – City of London School for Girls