An award from an Astronaut!!
I got awarded a medal by a literal astronaut!! On July 23rd 2022, my team and I got awarded the silver medal for winning the "Are you (w)right?" Competition at the Human Space Flight Expo by Rakesh Sharma who is the first and only Indian astronaut. The competition was an aeromodelling competition where my team and I were given 3 hours to model, design, and construct a working glider. Anyway about the actual awards ceremony, to summarise I wanted to kill myself!! It has got to be one of the biggest waste of time (other than the 1 minute I actually spoke to Rakesh Sharma on stage). My team and I were told to arrive at 12 noon when the actual ceremony started at 3 pm as that was when Rakesh Sharma finally arrived. We had to sit through 6 speeches that basically stated the same thing but were worded differently. Then we were told we would get a chance to ask Rakesh Sharma some questions, but they literally only let kids who were below the age of 10 ask anything!! EVEN THOUGH THER...