Australian Space Design Competition
From the 13 to the 16th of January, six Magdalene students took part in the Australian Space Design Competition, hosted by the University of Queensland on their Brisbane campus. This competition required students to design their own space settlement in two days, working with schools and students they had never met before. With these students they formed companies to present a tender proposal similar to those seen in engineering industries all across the world. For this competition the students were sent to the year 2030, and asked to design a base that would be situated on the moon. The students were accompanied by representative Science teachers, Mr Wray and Ms Boughton.
Yr 12 Student reflections from the event:
ASDC was a terrific experience, and presents a really unique challenge for everyone involved. Working with so many new people, in our case nearly 20 other students, and with such a constrained schedule, ASDC forces you to learn to work with maximum efficiency and effectiveness through teamwork and communication. Meeting so many new people was an awesome experience, and to hear from and have the chance to meet industry representatives from companies like Boeing was an unbelievable opportunity especially for someone like me who wants to make engineering a long term career.
Marcus Attard
This year’s ASDC competition was extremely rewarding, speculating the technologies available to industry in only 10 years time was easily the most difficult aspect of this competition. It became essential to ‘think back’ 10 years to the technology we had available then, including the iphone 5, original Ps4 and XBox one and then project forward to 2030 to understand the development of devices. But, as challenging as this seems, it was extremely rewarding to present in front of a large crowd and explain our concepts, after sleepless nights worth of collaboration and teamwork.
Zacchary Saprun
