DR1 Daily News - Dominican Republic

Students from the Dominican Republic had won two first-place awards and a second place when NASA announced on 22 April 2024 the winners of the 30th Human Exploration Rover Challenge (HERC).

The annual engineering competition, one of NASA’s longest-standing challenges, held its concluding event on 19 and 20 April 2024 at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, near NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center.

Dominican students were on the list of 2024 award winners in the College/University Division with second place reached by the Instituto Tecnológico de Santo Domingo (Intec). First place in that category went to the University of Alabama in Huntsville and third place to Cambell University in Buies Creek, North Carolina.

Dominican students from the Instituto Especializado de Estudios Superiores Loyola (San Cristobal) won the Safety Award in the...