A team of students from the Amity International School in Noida has won the prestigious 20th Annual International Space Settlement Design Competition, 2015, held at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. The Amity team comprised 12 students from Class XI and X. The Amity team designed two main settlements and four outlying settlements to accommodate a population of 24,000 as well as a transient of 3,000 more on Mars using a transparent material, 'Aluminium Oxinitride'. The team worked on the design for 48 hours. The selection of location for the Mars colony depended on the quality of soil and amount of dust storm in the particular area.<br/><br/>The International Space Settlement Design Competition puts high school students in the shoes of aerospace engineers.