2024

A team of 10 students from Amity International School, Pushp Vihar, New Delhi won the International Space Settlement Design Competition hosted at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). The team consisted of Samaya Chauhan, Akshita Bhandari, Dhruv Bhandari, Aaditya Raj Verma, Namya Jain, Yash Wadhwa, Avneet Kaur Virdi, Taarush Goswami, Daksh Dhull and Arsh Arora.

They competed in the international event, held at the Kennedy Space Centre of the US space agency in Florida from July 26-29, after winning the national and Asian rounds.

The winning team designed the Balderol Space Settlement, which aims to establish a large-scale, sustainable community on the moon, with 12,000 full-time residents living and working there.

Samaya Chauhan, 15, was conferred with the Big Impact Award for social impact in the area of Mental Wellbeing amongst youth. She is the youngest person to have received this award for her efforts in the field.

Speaking about her endeavors, Samaya says “India has the highest prevalence of online harassment, with over 33% of children experiencing online bullying; what happens face to face is at times, far worse, and long-lasting. The trauma inflicted in childhood can progressively deepen if corrective action isn’t taken in time. My attempts seek to tackle this problem head-on, by identifying bullying behaviors and providing support and strength to students and their families who are suffering.”

She expresses gratitude for receiving the award and is honored to have been presented with the award by renowned management expert and author, Shiv Khera. She is confident of reaching many more students and amplifying their voices in the fight against bullying.

The Big Impact Awards organized by Big FM, one of the leading radio networks in India, felicitates businesses and changemakers who have left an indelible mark on society through their work. The event attracts eminent personalities from all walks of life.

2023

Samaya Chauhan of Amity International School, Pushp Vihar, and Sanjana Chauhan of Amity International School, Noida, have won the prestigious 'Silver Award' in the Climate Champion Profiles Challenge, a global story-telling competition organized by The Writing's on the Wall project in collaboration with News Decoder and The Climate Academy.

The competition received 40 shortlisted entries from 14 countries: Belgium, Bulgaria, Ethiopia, Georgia, Hungary, India, Montenegro, Poland, Republic of Korea, Nigeria, Pakistan, Romania, Slovenia, and the United States. Teenagers from all across the world were asked to profile a 'Climate Champion', someone who had made a difference by 'moving the needle' on one or more climate-saving efforts. These were then evaluated by a 12-member international jury of environmental specialists.

Samaya Chauhan won the award for profiling Ved Krishna, an Indian entrepreneur who has created a worldwide business in biodegradable cutlery and packaging made from sugarcane harvesting waste. 

Samaya Chauhan won “Best Delegate award in UN Women” at the Cambridge University International Model United Nations High School (CUIMUN HS) organised by The Cambridge University United Nations Association from September 21-26, 2023. The programme hones students as future global leaders wherein they represent different committees such as General Assembly, Food and Agriculture Organisation, United Nations Security Council and UN Women, and deliberate on world affairs.

Team Urja, an all-girls Amity team consisting of Samaya Chauhan and Samara Chauhan, students at Amity International School, Pushp Vihar, and Sanjana Chauhan (Amity International School Noida), won the prestigious 'Best Practices of Project Management Award' at the Aramco F1 in Schools World Championship in Singapore.

Team Urja defeated teams from Saudi Arabia and Australia and players from 68 countries at the event hosted by F1 in Schools Limited, a social enterprise. It is the only global multi-disciplinary challenge in which students aged 9 to 19 use CAS/CAM software to design, analyze, manufacture, test, and race miniature compressed air-powered cars made from F1 model block.

Project Management is an essential component of the F1 in Schools competition, in which participating teams must create a project report in the form of a portfolio that demonstrates how they originated, planned, executed, monitored, and concluded the project.

The team was also nominated for the ‘Women in Motorsports’ award and previously won the First Runner-up award at the national level competition.