Essay Contest Winners

This year’s topic asked essay writers to address the question: “How can human civilization develop a successful strategy for the sustained exploration of the inner solar system for the next 200 years?“. We are pleased to announce this year’s winning essay authors:

• Winner – Wojciech Gładysz (University of Warsaw)
• 1st Honorable Mention – Shayna Hume (University of Miami)
• 2nd Honorable Mention – Hanna Sandhu (Penn State University)

Congratulations to our essay contest winner and honorable mentions, and thanks to all our participants this year. We will continue this annual tradition with our contest in 2016, and we will also be featuring our contest winner in an upcoming edition of our “BlueSciCon” podcast series.