Bokaro, Sept. 2: A visit to Nasa is every student’s dream. And it has come true for 26 little learners of Jharkhand.

Having won the Nasa talent search scholarship, these children will visit one of the facilities of the space research station in the US this year-end. Times Business School had conducted the test on June 28. Altogether 843 students from the state had appeared for the exam.

Jamshedpur tops the list of the talent test with 10 students having bagged the coveted scholarship. They are Priyanka Kathuria and Richa Kumari, Little Flower School; Suchita Goenka and Rushali Ghosh, Sacred Heart School; Basu Kumar Sharma, Kerala Public School; Saheli Bose and Sushobhan Ghosh, St Mary’s School; Aman Priydarshi, Loyola School; Akshaya Jain, Motilal School and Saumya Roop Chanda, Jamshedpur Public School.

Bokaro follows with five students — Shubhangi Mishra, Delhi Public School; Avi Sinha, Chinmaya Vidyalaya; Kumar Aman, Pentacostal Assembly School; Vijay Kumar, Bokaro Public School; and Prabhat Kumar Suman, Gurugovind Singh Public School.The lucky three from Ranchi are Rushali Ghosh, Sacred Heart School and Bishop West School’s Shruti Bannerji and Ghania Fatima. From Khunti, two students made it to the list — Krishna Kumar Mahto and Ankit Kumar, both students of SS DAV Centenary Public School.

Deogarh also boasts two successful students — Gaurav Mishra of St Francis School and Modern Public School’s Rishav Kumar. Hazaribagh has the same number, Amratya, DAV School and Prakesh Kumar, Sri Ramkrishna Sarda Asharama. The others are Prakhar Vaidya from St. Thomas School, Godda, and Vishvash Prakesh from St Xavier’s High School, Sahebganj.

The students will spend a month in the US during which, they will get an opportunity to learn more about the space organisation.

Vijay Kumar of Bokaro Public School, whose father is a tempo driver, said: “I had studied for five to six hours for this scholarship. My hard work has paid,” said Vijay, who wants to become a scientist.