our reward

Bloopers

Genevieves views

roisins views

Sarahs thoughts

Maeve and Roisin getting their award for swimming in the Artic circle

Info

THe below is a link to information from Andoya Rocket Launch about the CanSat www.rocketrange.no/?page_id=325

All of us with Zahira at the rocket range

all of us at the rocket range putting our last minute touches onto the cansat

the opening ceremony ...roisin was our representative

All of us concentrating really hard on doing our design document

Genevieve and orla sewing up the parachute

picture in the irish examiner

picture of genevieve, orla and roisin

photo of can

Our can being put into our rocket

Truailliu team at the rocket range with Anne Fitzpatrick

bbq nite

Cloud Cover Present

Ro Keeping an eye on the can!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Putting the Can into the Rocket

Ground Station

Launch SIte

The Scanner b4 launch

Putting the Can into the Rocket

Parachute

The prize winners of the first European Cansat Competition

This is the Irish CanSat which came in Second in the first ever European CanSat Competition

1. England


2. Ireland


3. Belgium

Congrats to the Irish Team

With Dag sorting out the faulty wire

This is the weather cloud in the air

The rocket

The girls give their thoughts on the project

The Team after a very successful launch

We were asked to go in an earlier rocket as we were supper organised and ready to go:-)

Getting one or two things done in hte workshop before the launch

The girls at Andoya Rocket Ranch waiting for the bus to be transported to Skarsteinsdalen for the rocket launch.

Roísín made the circle!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Orla, Genevieve and Roísín are making final structural changes to their CanSat.

The launch was a succes!!! We had a small amount of trouble in the beginning because our sensors couldnt be picked up in the can but we quickley realised that a wire was broken

Sarah speaking about our project.

Roísín speaking about our project.

Roisin holding irish flag representing her team at opening ceremony.

Roisin indroucing our first presentation. She spoke about the scohool and its opportunities.

We were very tired after our two flights and were not looking forward to another but were excited to be nearly in Andenes.

Last stages

Tonight we will be leaving the bus station at 4am to begin our long journey to Norway. We departing from Dublin Airport at 12am.

10th of May

Today we got our first photograph for the newspaper done. We also got our first publishing in the newspapaer. We featured in the Limerick Leader.

5th of May

Today is the day we got in touch with the University of Limerick and told them what we needed help with and organised a plan to meet up.

1st of april 2010

Today is the day we got organised about what we were doing in the can sat competition, our aplication had already been accepted so our teacher explained to us what it was about. We also set up our team email so as we could communicate with one another and see what was going on.We also got devided into groups of what tasks we were in charge of:

Roisin-PR and first mission

Sarah-programming

Genevieve-programming

Orla-parachute design

Rachel-parachute design

Maeve-first mission

Dervla-secondary mission

Gillian-secondary mission

Here are some pictures of our cansat and the work being done!

More Pics from work being carried out in Sinead's Lab

Carrying out tests on the optical fibres in Sinead's Lab