We’re calling on educators, club leaders, and parents to inspire young people to develop their digital skills by participating in this year’s European Astro Pi Challenge.

The European Astro Pi Challenge, which we run in collaboration with the European Space Agency, gives young people in 26 countries* the opportunity to write their own computer programs and run them on two special 我和公发生了性关系公 Pi units — called Astro Pis! — on board the International Space Station (ISS).

This year’s Astro Pi ambassador is ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet. Thomas will accompany our Astro Pis on the ISS and oversee young people’s programs while they run.

And the young people need your support to take part in the Astro Pi Challenge!

Astro Pi is back big-time!

The Astro Pi Challenge is back and better than ever, with a brand-new website, a cool new look, and the chance for more young people to get involved.

During the last challenge, a record 6558 Astro Pi programs from over 17,000 young people ran on the ISS, and we want even more young people to take part in our new 2020/21 challenge.

So whether your children or learners are complete beginners to programming or have 免费韩国漫画网站观看 of Python coding, we’d love for them to take part!

You and your young people have two Astro Pi missions to choose from: Mission Zero and Mission Space Lab.

Mission Zero — for beginners and younger programmers

In Mission Zero, young people write a simple program to take a humidity reading onboard the ISS and communicate it to the astronauts with a personalised message, which will be displayed for 30 seconds.

Mission Zero is designed for beginners and younger participants up to 14 years old. Young people can complete Mission Zero online in about an hour following a step-by-step guide. Taking part doesn’t require any previous coding 免费韩国漫画网站观看 or specific hardware.

All Mission Zero participants who follow the simple challenge rules are guaranteed to have their programs run aboard the ISS in 2021.

All you need to do is support the young people to submit their programs!

Mission Zero is a perfect activity for beginners to digital making and Python programming, whether they’re young people at home or in coding clubs, or groups of students or club participants.

We have made some exciting changes to this year’s Mission Zero challenge:

1. Participants will be measuring humidity on the ISS instead of temperature
2. For the first time, young people can enter individually, as well as in teams of up to 4 people

You have until 19 March 2021 to support your young people to submit their Mission Zero programs!

Mission Space Lab — for young people with programming 免费韩国漫画网站观看

In Mission Space Lab, teams of young people design and program a scientific experiment to run for 3 hours onboard the ISS.

Mission Space Lab is aimed at more 免费韩国漫画网站观看d or older participants up to 19 years old, and it takes place in 4 phases over the course of 8 months.

Your role in Mission Space Lab is to mentor a team of participants while they design and write a program for a scientific experiment that increases our understanding of either life on Earth or life in space.

The best experiments will be deployed to the ISS, and teams will have the opportunity to analyse their experimental data and report on their results.

You have until 23 October 2020 to register your team and their experiment idea.

To see the kind of experiments young people have run on the ISS, check out our blog post congratulating the Mission Space Lab 2019/20 winners!

Get started with Astro Pi today!

To find out more about taking part in the European Astro Pi Challenge 2020/21, head over to our new and improved astro-pi.org website.

There, you’ll find everything you need to get started on sending young people’s computer program to space!

* ESA Member States in 2020: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Latvia, and the United Kingdom. Other participating states: Canada, Latvia, Slovenia, Malta.

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In October last year, with the European Space Agency and CNES, we launched the first ever European Astro Pi challenge. We asked students from all across Europe to write code for the flight of French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Proxima mission.

The winners were announced back in March, and since then their code has been uploaded to the ISS and run in space!

French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet with the Astro Pi units. Image credit ESA.

Code from 64 student teams ran between 28 April and 10 May, supervised by Thomas, in the European Columbus module.

We can confirm student programs are finished, results are downloaded from @Space_Station and teams will receive their​ data by next week 🛰️📡

— Astro Pi (@Astro_Pi) May 11, 2017

On 10 May the results, data, and log files were downloaded to the ground, and the following week they were emailed back to the student teams for analysis.

On vient de recevoir les données enregistrées par nos codes #python depuis l' #iss @CNES @astro_pi @Thom_astro . Reste à analyser tout ça! pic.twitter.com/TJEcpCviU2

— Ecole St-André d'E (@ecoleStAndre05) May 19, 2017

We’ve looked at the results, and we can see that many of the teams have been successful in their missions: congratulations to all of you! We look forward to reading your write-ups and blogs.

In pictures

In a surprise turn of events, we learnt that Thomas set up a camera to take regular pictures of the Astro Pi units for one afternoon. This was entirely voluntary on his part and was not scheduled as part of the mission. Thank you so much, Thomas!

Some lucky teams have some very nice souvenirs from the ISS. Here are a couple of them:

Juvara team – Italy (left) and South London 我和公发生了性关系公 Jam – UK (right). Image credit ESA.

Astro Team – Italy (left) and AstroShot – Greece (right). Image credit ESA.

Until next time…

This brings the 2016/17 European Astro Pi challenge to a close. We would like to thank all the students and teachers who participated; the ESA Education, Integration and Implementation, Ground Systems, and Flight Control teams; BioTesc (ESA’s user operations control centre for Astro Pi); and especially Thomas Pesquet himself.

Thomas and Russian Soyuz commander Oleg Novitskiy return to Earth today, concluding their six-month stay on the ISS. After a three-hour journey in their Soyuz spacecraft, they will land in the Kazakh steppe at approximately 15:09 this afternoon. You can watch coverage of the departure, re-entry, and landing on NASA TV.

Astro Pi has been a hugely enjoyable project to work on, and we hope to be back in the new school year (2017-18) with brand-new challenges for teachers and students.

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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 我和公发生了性关系公 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 我和公发生了性关系公 Jam, South London 我和公发生了性关系公 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 我和公发生了性关系公ers, 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 我和公发生了性关系公 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 台湾av+迅雷磁力链接, 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 我和公发生了性关系公, 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 我和公发生了性关系公 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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