Bellarmine student Aarav Gupta ’24 earned second-place high school honors in the Lucy in Space contest, organized by Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins and supported by the Southwest Research Institute’s Lucy Mission, NASA, and ASU’s School of Earth and Space Exploration and L’TES project.
High school students explored the idea of how the Lucy Spacecraft will stay in orbit around the Sun for millions of years and created a message in the form of original artwork (drawing, paintings, digital images, photographs, photographs of sculptures) to future humans who may someday find, highlighting humankind’s drive to explore, discover, and understand our origins—on Earth and in the Solar System.
Aarav’s accomplishment was by writing an essay and pairing it with a creative work of art. In May of this year, he was notified that he would be receiving a letter of recognition, his entry featured on the ASU Ask An Anthropologist Lucy in Space website, an autographed copy of one of Donald Johanson’s books, and Lucy Mission merchandise.
Information about the project and contest is available at this link:
https://askananthropologist.asu.edu/lucy-in-space
Congratulations, Aarav!