During our current STEAM expedition E25 were fortunate to meet three students from Tapton School in Sheffield who have built their own satellite! Emily, Emma and Sam visited us as experts for Case Study 1 of our Escape Earth expedition, as we have been looking at the structure of the universe, galaxies and our solar system.
In addition to their A Level studies at Tapton, our experts have taken part in a six month engineering project, run under the Engineering Education Scheme (EES) run by EDT and supported by an electronics company called ARM. They were given a microprocessor and a £200 budget, which they decided to use to build and program a small satellite. They had strict parameters to fit within and had to create something which would be viable in space. This took a great deal of planning, problem solving and research, as well as using Computer Aided Design (CAD) software, using a 3D printer for 19 hours during their residential at Sheffield Hallam University and showcasing their work at a Science Fair to industry experts.
