CanSat in Greece 2017: Launch Event

CanSat in Greece 2017: The Launch Event

CanSat in Greece is a high school space competition organized by university students, for the first time in Greece. This competition is the preliminary phase of the european competition CanSats in Europe, organized by the European Space Agency (ESA).

CanSat in Greece 2017 is a voluntary, non-profit initiative of the IEEE NTUA Student Branch members. The competition is addressed to high-school students who are called to construct an educational can-sized satellite. During the final phase of the competition, the students’ satellites will be launched at an altitude of 1 kilometer, then during their landing they will execute a mission chosen by the students themselves. The missions will be evaluated and the team with the highest rating will represent Greece in the European finals (“CanSats in Europe”), which is organized by ESA.

The competition’s main goal is the students’ familiarization with up-to-date space technologies while using their knowledge on physics, computer programming and mathematics. Meanwhile, the students get used with the research methodology, they learn to cooperate and work as a team in order to achieve a common goal.

To this day, the competition has managed to inspire hundreds of students in Greece and multiply the interest of the greek schools. We received a total number of 26 applications, from which 10 schools were chosen. Right now, the 10 teams are integrating the construction of their satellites. Every single day, the students are a step closer to living their dream, launching their own small satellite!

CanSat in Greece 2017 Launch Event will be held on 18-21 of April.

Below you can find the schedule for each day respectively.

Tuesday 18/04: 12:00 - 19:30

• Location: Deanery Building of the National Technical University of Athens
• Supporters Talks
• Teams’ Mission Presentations
• Inspection and Handoff of CanSats
• Open to the public

Wednesday 19/04: 08:00 - 20:00

• Location: Private Airstrip (Kopais Region)
• CanSats’ Launch
• Transport: Bus (08:00, 20:00)
• Open to the public

Thursday 20/04:  10:00 - 18:00

• Location: Deanery Building of the National Technical University of Athens
• Teams’ preperation for final presentation.
• Closed to the public

Friday 21/04: 09:00 - 16:00

• Location: Deanery Building of the National Technical University of Athens
• Teams’ Final Presentations
• Scientific and Educational Talks
• Award Ceremony
• Open to the public

Want to join us? The admission is free! Get your tickets! (Transport and Launch optional)

This initiative is sponsored by the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and its main supporters are:

• European Space Agency (ESA)
• NTUA’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• IEEE Greece Section
• Computer Society of IEEE Greece Section
• Corallia Clusters Initiative
• Corallia’s si-Cluster
• Academy of Athens
• Libre Space Foundation

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