Awards and Media
AWARDS Imagining the Skies RASC 150 Winner 2019. Awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada for our TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanetary Light and Sound model project. https://rasc.ca/imagining-skies-winners NASA Space Apps Toronto […]
AWARDS
Imagining the Skies RASC 150 Winner 2019. Awarded by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada for our TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanetary Light and Sound model project. https://rasc.ca/imagining-skies-winners
NASA Space Apps Toronto Winner 2019 and Global Nominee. Awarded for the project: Schools and NASA Aiding Climate Action by Kids (S.N.A.C.K). https://hotpoprobot.com/2020/01/04/my-satellite-data-and-climate-change-project-wins-spaceapps-toronto-2019-and-is-a-global-nominee/
2019 Finalist. Canada’ Favourite Science Blog. People’s Choice Award. Awarded by Science Writers and Communicators of Canada and Science Borealis. https://sciencewriters.ca/peopleschoice
Honorable Mention for Poster Presentation on Using Machine Learning to Predict Risk Index of Asteroid Collision. 2019 NASA Planetary Defense Conference. Washington DC. https://iaaweb.org/iaa/Scientific%20Activity/conferencereportpdc2019.pdf
Finalist, Canadian Space Agency, NSERC, 2019 Little Inventors Challenge, Canada. https://www.littleinventors.org/makers/arushi-nath/
Jesse Ketchum Award 2018, Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, Toronto. Presented to members who have done considerable work in the construction and/or application of equipment suitable for astronomical observation.
NASA Space Apps Toronto Winner 2018 Awarded the Global Nominee and People’s Choice Award for our project “Deep Space Musical”- the musical of our universe.
2018 Emerald Code Grand Prize Winners Awarded for our project “Trappist 1 Exoplanetary Model: Sound and Light Show”. Watch the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-UG42noXw
2018 Science Odyssey First Prize Winners Awarded for science outreach during Science Rendezvous at the University of Toronto.
2018 Cubes in Space: COTS Components for Cube-Sats Payload Selected for High Altitude Balloon by NASA Langley Centre.
Canadian Space Agency SpaceApps Winner 2017 Awarded for transforming images from the Canadian Satellite RadarSat-2 into the #Canada 150 logo. https://hotpoprobot.com/2017/08/02/visit-to-the-canadian-space-agency-2/
NASA SpaceApps Challenge Toronto Winner 2017 Awarded for Drop the Drought application which uses satellite imagery to predict climate change-induced droughts and migration that may happen as people and cattle move out in search of food and water.
Climathon 2016 First Prize Winners and Climate Hero Award Won it for our “Fix the Six” project to reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector by 5% by planting more trees and improving tree density alongside streets and community parks.
Hardware Hackathon Winners 2015
NASA Global Top 5 People’s Choice Award 2014
MEDIA
8 May 2020: UNE PINTE DE SCIENCE” TROQUE LES BARS POUR LES ÉCRANS. CScience. https://www.cscience.ca/2020/05/08/une-pinte-de-science-troque-les-bars-pour-les-ecrans/
29 January 2020: Kids Inventors Day. TVO Kids. Arushi talks about her Make An Astronaut Smile Robot (MARS) and give a demo. https://www.tvokids.com/school-age/videos/tvokids-show/kid-inventors-day-wednesday-january-29
2019: Google Developers Blog: DevKids: An inside look at the kids of DevFest. https://developers.googleblog.com/2019/11/devkids-inside-look-at-kids-of-devfest.html
16 October 2019: Toronto-area Teen Models Asteroid Collision Risk, SpaceQ. http://spaceq.ca/toronto-area-teen-models-asteroid-collision-risk/
Emerald Code: Decoded Season 2 | STEM Stars Artash and Arushi Build ROCKETS! | Shaftesbury Kids. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iy-UG42noXw
14 January 2019: Breakfast TV Toronto: Conversation on Space with Artash and Arushi. https://www.bttoronto.ca/videos/toronto-siblings-are-finalists-in-the-nasa-space-apps-challenge/
9 May 2018: TVO Kids. TRAPPIST-1 Exoplanetary Light and Sound Model. https://tvokids.com/school-age/space-promos/videos/tvok-news-trappist-1-exoplanetary-system
16 November 2017: Front page of Toronto Metro Newspaper. Eclipse is the Gift that Keeps Giving. https://hotpoprobot.com/2017/11/30/metro-toronto-newspaper-cover-story-family-of-citizen-scientists-shed-light-on-the-summers-solar-eclipse/ and https://www.pressreader.com/canada/starmetro-toronto/20171116/281582355922769
21 August 2017: Toronto Metro. Hobbyists become citizen scientists. https://www.pressreader.com/canada/starmetro-toronto/20171116/281582355922769
28 August 2016: Springer Journal. Environmental Monitoring using Commerical Off-the-Shelf Space Technologies. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-44447-5_4 (Chapter 10)
18 December 2015: Toronto Star. Students build prosthetics hands with help of a 3D printer. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/12/18/students-build-prosthetics-hands-with-help-of-3d-printer.html
24 September 2015: Toronto Star. Toronto Clock building Hackathon. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/09/25/toronto-clock-building-hackathon-inspired-by-texas-kid.html
