Christ’s Hospital Students Win National CanSat Technical Award

Students from Christ’s Hospital have achieved national success at the CanSat Finals, winning the Highest Technical Achievement award after an outstanding series of launches and data analysis.

At the finals, the team completed two additional launches of their CanSat, successfully transmitting live data to the ground station using radio waves and antennas on both occasions. Their design also featured an innovative servo-driven mechanism that exposed fresh nano tape every 100 metres during descent to collect particulate samples from different altitudes.

Following the flight day, the team analysed their results and presented their findings to judges and competing teams.

The award recognises excellence in technical complexity, mission performance, innovation and robustness. Judges praised the reliability and precision of the CanSat, with all systems performing exactly as planned across both launches.

The students were delighted with their success, capping off a highly successful competition with a national award for engineering excellence.