Despite difficult circumstances, CNES and Planète Sciences organized the first national “CanSat Lycéens” qualification event on May 21 in Brétigny-sur-Orge in the Essonne department.
The 60 participants were able to bring to fruition more than a year of work and present their CanSats to ESERO France members. The ten teams selected last March first had their CanSats validated by technical experts to ensure they met the competition specifications, then passionately defended their projects remotely during interviews with a jury made up of employees and volunteers from CNES and the Planète Sciences association.
The selection of winners
Although all parties involved praised the participants’ exemplary work, certain projects stood out from the rest.
This is the case for the SeedLXM, LVMA-25, and CHAMO satellites from Lycée Xavier Marmier in Pontarlier (Doubs), which won the “Planète Sciences Favorite Award” and came in third and second place in the competition.
For its ambitious CanSat project and its team, which is complementary in terms of both skills and academic levels, the LC Sat project from Lycée Carnot in Dijon (Côte d’Or) took first place and qualified for the next stage of the CanSat competition.
All that remains is to encourage them from September 27 to October 8, 2021, during ESA’s exclusively online event!
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