Shaw-IAU Workshops by the OAE

CanSat Portugal is an educational project of ESERO Portugal, organised by Ciência Viva and ESA. This initiative challenges secondary school students from all over the country to design and build a functional model of a small satellite with the same dimensions as a soda can. All teams are given a primary mission and have to choose a secondary one. They have to design and build their own CanSat, along with its parachute, prepare it for launch, assure its communications with the ground station and analyse the scientific data obtained. They are also strongly advised to look for external scientific and technological support. Overall, this competition engages the students to work together as a team on a real space mission and to live a challenging yet fun scientific and technological experience.

Biography:

João Emanuel Pinto Dias has a Master's degree in Astronomy and Astrophysics from the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon. He has professional experience as a researcher in Extragalactic Astrophysics, having worked at the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory in Italy, and conducted several observations of distant galaxies in the infrared at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. He has worked as a planetarist and science communicator at the National Museum of Natural History and Science, in Lisbon. He has been working at Ciência Viva since October 2017, having integrated the team of the educational programme ESERO Portugal, a partnership between the ESA and Ciência Viva. In 2019 he became the project manager of this programme.

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