GeeZ Arthur, the article is silent on if the mission was developed by the kids or provided as a requirement. Further, it did not appear nor imply any intent to build anything, just reinforce and test the team’s ability to design for a mission (mission validity is really not this focus nor worthy of your comment, if you can dig it). We should celebrate young people applying themselves and using their brains, rather than criticize. We need to show kids NOT to pay attention to the loud negative morons of all stripes dominating social media and politicizing everything that USED to be the domain of engineering and science, and encourage the kids to use their brains constructively, like these winner have. One of my biggest professional pleasures has been to help and encourage engineering interns to find their passion and pursue it. You should try it! It’s a really cool feeling to know there are handfuls of now aircraft and space designers and builders out there that I had a small positive influence upon.