ISR’s Code Club takes on the Astro Pi: Mission Zero Challenge

Wednesday, June 19th

For the second year in a row, our talented ISR Code Club students participated in Astro Pi: Mission Zero, a Python-based coding challenge, hosted by the European Space Agency (ESA).

Our Grade 5 students Dora, Leopold, Anton, Andy, Xixi, Joseph, Raghav, Eleanor, Shaurya and Leon, wrote a program to take a reading from the color and luminosity sensor on an Astro Pi Computer on board the International Space Station, which in turn used the data to set the background color in a personalized image of flora and fauna for the astronauts to see as they go about their daily tasks.

All of the students were successful in submitting their programs earlier this year and by the end of May, their programs ran for a period of 60 seconds on the International Space Station (ISS)! Pictured here are the students with their certificates signed by Mr. Hugo Marée (Head of the ESA Education Office), Mr. Philip Colligan (CEO of the Raspberry Pi Foundation), and Mr. Andreas Mogensen (Engineer and ESA Astronaut). With their certificate, our students also received an image recording the exact start and end time, and the position of the ISS relative to Earth when their program ran — a piece of space science history to keep!

Congratulations to all our ISR Grade 5 students who participated in this exciting Astro Pi: Mission Zero, proving once again that their dedication and ingenuity really are out of this world!