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Our CorrespondentPhagwara,July 16A team of seven students, ‘Visionauts’, of Lovely Professional University (LPU) have won the ‘STEM Engagement Award’ in the 2019 NASA’s Human Exploration Rover Challenge held at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama. The team also got an opportunity to interact with Sunita Williams, NASA astronaut and two-time spaceflight veteran, who attended the second day of the event. The team comprised of students from BTech (Mechanical Engineering), namely Karan Singh, Hemant Sharma, Rohit Manik Patil, Harsimran Kaur, Tejinder Kaur, Ekampreet Singh and Gursewak Singh. The competition is challenging and offered us a chance to test ourselves against the best in the world. It continues the agency’s effort to use the appeal and intrigue of its space missions and programmes as catalysts for engaging students in STEM—science, technology, engineering and mathematics..