Field Notes
From a brief to the room where we present it. These are records of our work, teamwork and what we learned.
From 13 to 17 August 2026, the Global Future Space Scholars Meet (GFSSM) brought young participants to Beijing. Butian Engineering Club from Hangzhou No.2 High School entered Teams Tianji and Tianshu; both advanced from the qualifying round to the national final. Their task was to imagine a mining settlement in the asteroid belt in the year 2115.
The two Butian teams at the 2026 final.
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At the 13–17 August 2025 GFSSM in Beijing, Butian's Tianshu and Tianquan teams advanced to the national final. Tianshu also earned Best Qualifying Proposal. The scenario placed a Mars base deep inside a lava tube in the year 2075.
The teams at the 2025 event.
From 7 to 11 August 2024, the GFSSM China final brought student teams to Beijing. Butian's Yuheng and Tianquan teams both qualified; the companies they joined at the final both finished as national runners-up.
The two Butian teams at the 2024 event.
From 9 to 13 August 2023, the Global Future Space Scholars Meet (GFSSM) took place in Beijing. Butian Engineering Club entered two teams, Tianquan and Tianxuan. Both reached the national final. Tianquan's company won the championship and Tianxuan's finished second.
The two Butian teams at the 2023 event.
On 7 June 2023, Butian Engineering Club joined the IF Business Club and the Hangzhou No.2 High School volunteer team on a paired-exchange visit to Jianshan Central Primary School in Pan’an County, Jinhua. The schools' exchange had begun in 2017.