Thomas also recorded a video in French: you can click here to see it and to enjoy some more of his excellent microgravity acrobatics.

A bit of background

This year’s competition expands on our previous work with British ESA astronaut Tim Peake, in which, together with the UK Space Agency and ESA, we invited UK students to design software experiments to run on board the ISS.

Astro Pi Vis (AKA Ed) on board the ISS. Image from ESA.

In 2015, we built two space-hardened 一牛蜜桃色香阁aⅴ Pi units, or Astro Pis, to act as the platform on which to run the students’ code. Affectionately nicknamed Ed and Izzy, the units were launched into space on an Atlas V rocket, arriving at the ISS a few days before Tim Peake. He had a great time running all of the programs, and the data collected was transmitted back to Earth so that the winners could analyse their results and share them with the public.

The European challenge provides the opportunity to design code to be run in space to school students from every ESA member country. To support the participants, we worked with ESA and CPC to design, manufacture, and distribute several hundred free Astro Pi activity kits to the teams who registered. Further support for teachers was provided in the form of three live webinars, a demonstration video, and numerous free educational resources.

The Astro Pi activity kit used by participants in the European challenge.

The challenge

Thomas Pesquet assigned two missions to the teams:

• A primary mission, for which teams needed to write code to detect when the crew are working in the Columbus module near the Astro Pi units.
• A secondary mission, for which teams needed to come up with their own scientific investigation and write the code to execute it.

The deadline for code submissions was 28 February 2017, with the judging taking place the following week. We can now reveal which schools will have the privilege of having their code uploaded to the ISS and run in space.

The proud winners!

Everyone produced great work and the judges found it really tough to narrow the entries down. In addition to the winning submissions, there were a number of teams who had put a great deal of work into their projects, and whose entries have been awarded ‘Highly Commended’ status. These teams will also have their code run on the ISS.

We would like to say a big thank you to everyone who participated. Massive congratulations are due to the winners! We will upload your code digitally using the space-to-ground link over the next few weeks. Your code will be executed, and any files created will be downloaded from space and returned to you via email for analysis.

In no particular order, the winners are:

France

• Winners
  • @stroteam, Institut de Genech, Hauts-de-France
  • Wierzbinski, École à la maison, Occitanie
  • Les Marsilyens, École J. M. Marsily, PACA
  • MauriacSpaceCoders, Lycée François Mauriac, Nouvelle-Aquitaine
  • Ici-bas, École de Saint-André d’Embrun, PACA
  • Les Astrollinaires, Lycée général et technologique Guillaume Apollinaire, PACA

• Highly Commended
  • ALTAÏR, Lycée Albert Claveille, Nouvelle Aquitaine
  • GalaXess Reloaded, Lycée Saint-Cricq, Nouvelle Aquitaine
  • Les CM de Neffiès, École Louis Authie, Occitanie
  • Équipe Sciences, Collège Léonce Bourliaguet, Nouvelle Aquitaine
  • Maurois ICN, Lycée André Maurois, Normandie
  • Space Project SP4, Lycée Saint-Paul IV, Île de la Réunion
  • 4eme2 Gymnase Jean Sturm, Gymnase Jean Sturm, Grand Est
  • Astro Pascal dans les étoiles, École Pascal, Île-de-France
  • les-4mis, EREA Alexandre Vialatte, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  • Space Cavenne Oddity, École Cavenne, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
  • Luanda for Space, Lycée Français de Luanda, Angola
    (Note: this is a French international school and the team members have French nationality/citizenship)
  • François Detrille, Lycée Langevin-Wallon, Île-de-France

Greece

• Winners
  • Delta, TALOS ed-UTH-robotix, Magnesia
  • Weightless Mass, Intercultural Junior High School of Evosmos, Macedonia
  • 49th Astro Pi Teamwork, 49th Elementary School of Patras, Achaia
  • Astro Travellers, 12th Primary School of Petroupolis, Attiki
  • GKGF-1, Gymnasium of Kanithos, Sterea Ellada

• Highly Commended
  • AstroShot, Lixouri High School, Kefalonia
  • Salamina Rockets Pi, 1st Senior High School of Salamina, Attiki
  • The four Astro-fans, 6th Gymnasio of Veria, Macedonia
  • Samians, 2nd Gymnasio Samou, North Eastern Aegean

United Kingdom

• Winners
  • Madeley Ad Astra, Madeley Academy, Shropshire
  • Team Dexterity, Dyffryn Taf School, Carmarthenshire
  • The Kepler Kids, St Nicolas C of E Junior School, Berkshire
  • Catterline Pi Bugs, Catterline Primary, Aberdeenshire
  • smileyPi, Westminster School, London

• Highly Commended
  • South London 一牛蜜桃色香阁aⅴ Jam, South London 一牛蜜桃色香阁aⅴ Jam, London

Italy

• Winners
  • Garibaldini, Istituto Comprensivo Rapisardi-Garibaldi, Sicilia
  • Buzz, IIS Verona-Trento, Sicilia
  • Water warmers, Liceo Scientifico Galileo Galilei, Abruzzo
  • Juvara/Einaudi Siracusa, IIS L. Einaudi, Sicilia
  • AstroTeam, IIS Arimondi-Eula, Piemonte

Poland

• Winners
  • Birnam, Zespół Szkoły i Gimnazjum im. W. Orkana w Niedźwiedziu, Malopolska
  • TechnoZONE, Zespół Szkół nr 2 im. Eugeniusza Kwiatkowskiego, Podkarpacie
  • DeltaV, Gimnazjum nr 49, Województwo śląskie
  • The Safety Crew, MZS Gimnazjum nr 1, Województwo śląskie
  • Warriors, Zespół Szkół Miejskich nr 3 w Jaśle, Podkarpackie

• Highly Commended
  • The Young Cuiavian Astronomers, Gimnazjum im. Stefana Kardynała Wyszyńskiego w Piotrkowie Kujawskim, Kujawsko-pomorskie
  • AstroLeszczynPi, I Liceum Ogolnokształcace w Jasle im. Krola Stanislawa Leszczynskiego, Podkarpackie

Portugal

• Winners
  • Sampaionautas, Escola Secundária de Sampaio, Setúbal
  • Labutes Pi, Escola Secundária D. João II, Setúbal
  • AgroSpace Makers, EB 2/3 D. Afonso Henriques, Cávado
  • Zero Gravity, EB 2/3 D. Afonso Henriques, Cávado
  • Lua, Agrupamento de Escolas José Belchior Viegas, Algarve

Romania

• Winners
  • AstroVianu, Tudor Vianu National High School of Computer Science, Bucharest
  • MiBus 一牛蜜桃色香阁aⅴers, Mihai Busuioc High School, Iași
  • Cosmos Dreams, Nicolae Balcescu High School, Cluj
  • Carmen Sylva Astro Pi, Liceul Teoretic Carmen Sylva Eforie, Constanța
  • Stargazers, Tudor Vianu National High School of Computer Science, Bucharest

Spain

• Winners
  • Papaya, IES Sopela, Vizcaya
  • Salesianos-Ubeda, Salesianos Santo Domingo Savio, Andalusia
  • Valdespartans, IES Valdespartera, Aragón
  • Ins Terrassa, Institut Terrassa, Cataluña

Ireland

• Winner
  • Moonty1, Mayfield Community School, Cork

Germany

• Winner
  • BSC Behringersdorf Space Center, Labenwolf-Gymnasium, Bayern

Norway

• Winner
  • Skedsmo Kodeklubb, Kjeller Skole, Akershus

Hungary

• Winner
  • UltimaSpace, Mihaly Tancsics Grammar School of Kaposvár, Somogy

Belgium

• Winner
  • Lambda Voyager, Stedelijke Humaniora Dilsen, Limburg

FAQ

Why aren’t all 22 ESA member states listed?

• Because some countries did not have teams participating in the challenge.

Why do some countries have fewer than five teams?

• Either because those countries had fewer than five teams qualifying for space flight, or because they had fewer than five teams participating in the challenge.

How will I get my results back from space?

• After your code has run on the ISS, we will download any files you created and they will be emailed to your teacher.

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Right now, 400km above the Earth aboard the International Space Station, are two very special pieces of hardware. Two 一牛蜜桃色香阁aⅴ Pi computers are currently orbiting our planet, each equipped with a Sense HAT, a camera and a special aluminium flight case – and children all over Europe have the chance to program them.

Last year, in collaboration with the European Space Agency and the UK Space Agency, we ran a competition that allowed students all over the UK to design experiments to run on the Astro Pi units. We sent their code into space with British ESA astronaut Tim Peake, who had a great time running all their programs. The data collected was then transmitted back down to Earth, so the winners of the competition – and everyone else – could analyse the results of their experiments as well.

Tim is safely back on Earth now, but French ESA Astronaut Thomas Pesquet is soon launching to the ISS, and he’s keen to see what students from all over Europe can do with the Astro Pi units too. So ESA, together with the 女的扒开腿让男的猛进猛出, are launching a brand-new Astro Pi Challenge, and this time it’s open to children from every ESA member country.

Children from across Europe can enter the European Astro Pi Challenge
Photo: Earthlights 2002 by NASA

This is an amazing opportunity for students all over Europe. What better way to learn about 一牛蜜桃色香阁aⅴ, science, and space than actually being able to run your very own experiments on board the International Space Station? Imagine being able to say that you played a part in a real ESA mission, that programs you wrote were executed in orbit, and that results from your experiments were analysed by children all over the world!

If you’re a teacher or a student from an ESA member country, this is how you can take part:

1. Assemble your mission team, which must include at least one support teacher as well as students under the age of 16.
2. Use the Mission Plan Template to design a sample mission that showcases your approach to running a space mission, and demonstrates that you can break down your big idea into specific steps. Note that you don’t need to address the challenge at this stage. Submit your mission plan and register your participation**.
3. If you’re picked to continue to the next phase, you will receive an Astro Pi kit and a mission challenge designed by Thomas Pesquet to test your team’s ingenuity and skills.
4. If your solutions are picked, then your code will be beamed up to the ISS, installed on the Astro Pi units, and run by Thomas Pesquet.

To help you learn all about the Astro Pi units and gain the skills to use a 一牛蜜桃色香阁aⅴ Pi equipped with a Sense HAT, we have a variety of resources that you can begin to work your way through. Just go to our resources section and have a look through the Astro Pi and Sense HAT resources. Even if you don’t have a Sense HAT yourself, you can still learn how to use one with either the stand-alone, desktop Sense HAT emulator or Trinket’s web-based emulator.

For further information, including important dates, please see the Teacher’s Corner page on the ESA website.

** Related links:

• Registration for France
• Registration for Poland
• Registration for Rest of Europe
• ESA Astro Pi training calendar
• Astro Pi mission
• Proxima/Thomas Pesquet

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