An American high school student has named the first helicopter to be sent to Mars. Ingenuity was the name chosen by the U.S. space agency NASA in a competition involving thousands of students across America. The name was suggested by Vaneeza Rupani, a junior at Tuscaloosa County High School in Northport, Alabama. The Merriam-Webster Learner’s Dictionary defines ingenuity as skills that permit someone to solve problems, invent things.