Greetings student team,
You and your crack team of young scientists and technicians are one of several groups that have been chosen to help design the first permanent human colony on Mars. As of now, the only people on Mars are a group of international military scientists who stay for 6 months and go home. They do not have the capability of living there permanently. Due to the quickly deteriorating conditions on earth with regard to environmental pollution and warfare between competing groups that is about to change.
That is where you come in. It is essential that you begin your preparations immediately. You have been selected to plan this community because of your dedication to making society fair for all and conserving natural resources. Throughout the history of settling new frontiers, this has not always been the case. The lessons we have learned from our global earth experience have demonstrated to us that we must ensure that all future developments use resources wisely and share them equally among all settlers right from the beginning. That is the task that you and the other student groups are being assigned and all the resources of the classroom and the Internet are at your disposal. Your final plans are to be unveiled at a joint meeting of all the participants in two weeks. Please follow the guidelines on the project instruction sheets and good luck.
Sincerely yours,
Commander U. R. Dafutur