Most high school projects don't usually have lofty goals beyond an assignment and a grade. But in Oakwood School's Spacecraft Systems Engineering class, students know their latest assignment has cosmic implications.
Dustin DorseyNASA's "CubeSat" Launch Initiative features great minds from across the country. But this year, only one project was made entirely by high schoolers.NASA's "CubeSat" Launch Initiative takes student-designed satellites and sends them into space.
"Our work is going to be sent to space and that's exciting news for all of us," Oakwood Senior Shrihan Dash said.Soon, Oakwood's "NyanSat" will be one of them heading to the international space station. One uses acoustic mapping to see if an object is hollow or not with greater reliability than existing methods.
"We're just incredibly proud of what these students have accomplished," Oakwood School Engineering Instructor Michael Lyle said. "They've done a bunch of real-world engineering work where they have laid out circuit boards and they've done structural design and they've built a satellite that I think will really advance what is possible to do in space in a number of ways.
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