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The CBS The Green team consisting of Joseph Corcoran, Ryan O’Donnell, Lawrence Guardiano, Luke O’Mahony, Emir Alijiti and Conor O’Mahony, who are aiming to win the National CanSat Final this week.
A TEAM of students from CBS The Green are in the final of the national CanSat Competition.
They won the South-west finals in March held in LIT Limerick defeating Castletroy College and now have a chance to progress to the European Space agency finals held in the Azores in June during the summer should they win the national final on Thursday and Friday this week in Laois.
A CanSat is a simulation of a real working satellite, built inside a ‘structure’ with the dimensions of an empty soft drink can.
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The team consists of six members, Joseph Corcoran, Ryan O’Donnell, Lawrence Guardiano, Luke O’Mahony, Emir Alijiti and Conor O’Mahony.
“Our pupils designed their cansat (known as exocan) in the DCG room and had it 3D printed in the IT Tralee. The competition gives students a feeling of excitement and technological achievement by launching their own satelite and gives them their first practical experience of a real space project,” said teacher, Dale Counihan.
“Students must work as as team to undertake real life tasks as soldering electrical circuits, coding the components of their chosen mission sensors, design and make a parachute, develop an outreach programme to promote what they are doing to the school and wider community,” said Mr Counihan.
You can find out more by checking out their website – exocan.weebly.com on Twitter – @thegreencansat and on Instagram – @cbsthegreencansat
STEM in hugely important in CBS The Green an they have had winners in other initiatives such as SciFest, BT Young Scientist and the National Maths Olympiad.
