Zero Robotics Competition 2013

Mary Mullaghy 2 June 2014

The Zero Robotics High School Tournament 2013Massachusetts Institute of Technology Space Systems Laboratory, 70 Vassar St., Cambridge, MA 02139 (“MIT”) and TopCoder, Inc., 95 Glastonbury Blvd., Glastonbury, CT 06033 ("TopCoder"). 
The Tournament is sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, NASA, and the European Space Agency (ESA) ("Sponsors").  The ESA Tournament is open to teams of ESA member states composed of high-school equivalent students who meet the application criteria and submit a valid application.
More information can be found at the following link

http://www.zerorobotics.org/web/zero-robotics/tournament-details?tournamentId=13

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The fourth annual Zero Robotics Tournament for secondary school students has offically started. This challenge gives the chance to students to improve their programming and problem solving skills by using the SPHERES, the famous volley-ball sized satellites onboard of the ISS.

The competition is organized by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) together with NASA and ESA, with participants coming from the ESA’s member states, the USA and Russia. The selection of the competition finalists is based on the results of online simulations and on games between the different teams that will take place in Autumn 2015.

In January 2016 the finalists will then participate in one big event. The European students will gather in Redu (Belgium), while the American students will meet each other in Boston. During this final event the students will be connected live to the ISS. They will see their codes running for real inside the station, as the astronauts use the students’ code to manoeuvre the real SPHERES. This year Tim Peake should take part to the event from orbit.

Since its first edition, each year more than 50 European teams have participated in the Zero Robotics challenge. With your help we would like to increase this number and make this nice challenge more known and spread. This is why we kindly ask you to promote the Zero Robotics competition through your outreach channels and  networks.

You will find the announcement for Europe on the ESA Education website (and social networks) at: http://www.esa.int/Education/Zero_Robotics_Secondary_School_Tournament_2015_to_launch

The details about the challenge, the registration form and the related classroom resources are accessible on the MIT website at http://zerorobotics.mit.edu/. If you have questions or if you need more details don’t hesitate to contact Antoine (antoine.hubert@esa.int or e-roboticslab@esa.int), always keeping Clara in copy. We will be happy to help you make the participation of your national teams a success.

Mary Mullaghy 28 September 2015

Winners of BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition

The winner of the 48th annual BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2012 were Leaving Cert students Eric Doyle and Mark Kelly, from Synge Street CBS, Dublin 8 have taken home the top prize for their project entitled, “Simulation accuracy in the gravitational many-body problem” in the Chemical, Physical & Mathematical Sciences category, senior section.

Eric & Mark were presented with a cheque for €5,000, tickets to the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the opportunity to represent Ireland at the 24th European Union Young Scientist competition taking place in Bratislava in September and a Waterford crystal trophy.
Almost 1,200 students from 30 counties covering 550 projects from 221 schools nationwide competed for the coveted title ‘Winner of the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2012.’
Colm O’Neill, CEO, BT Ireland said, “The passion and enthusiasm we have seen from the students taking part this week has been outstanding. This year’s exhibition was bigger and better than ever before and the reaction from the students, teachers and visitors to the RDS this week has been amazing. We live in a continually changing world and what we have seen from the students this week is that they have the foresight and innovation to come up with real problem solving ideas that can help Ireland to grow and develop into the future. Huge congratulations to Eric & Mark and all the winners. I look forward to watching their progress in the coming years,” he added.
Professor Pat Guiry, Head Judge, Chemical, Physical & Mathematical category said, “The project develops a novel mathematical approach which has a diverse range of applications from satellite placement to predicting network congestion in telecommunications. In the opinion of the judging panel, an exceptional level of mathematical proficiency was demonstrated. Starting from Euler’s investigation in 1760 on the motion of planets, they simulated this complicated “many-body” problem using advanced computation and evaluated the accuracy of the solutions. Of particular note, they included an in-built accuracy estimation in their solution.”
Mary Mullaghy 10 February 2013

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