Our Junior School Year 4 Coding Club pupils had the exciting opportunity to take part in the Mission Zero Challenge by Astro Pi.
The challenge was to write a programme to take a humidity reading onboard the International Space Station, and communicate it to the astronauts with a personalised message.
This year, five teams from Year 4 entered the challenge, sending their code in March which was run on the International Space Station in June 2022. They have now received their certificates showing exactly where the ISS was when their programme ran.
Congratulations to the five teams!
- Galaxy Stars – Richelle and Nimreet
- Saturn Leopards – Isabelle C and Isabelle O
- The Flying Cupcakes – Anaya and Sophia
- The Galaxy Coders – Roza, Abigail, Darcy
- The Space Experts – Rakhi and Yana
“Over the last few weeks, a record 16,869 teams of young people from 26 countries had their Mission Zero programs run on the Astro Pi computers on board the International Space Station. The level of entries this year was outstanding, and we really enjoyed reading the messages that young people sent to the astronauts on the ISS, and seeing their imaginative use of the Astro Pi’s LED matrix.” The Astro Pi Team