St Aidan’s is going to

In January of this year, St Aidan’s fielded a team of 12 students who participated at the finals of the Australian Space Design Competition, held at The University of Queensland over two days. St Aidan’s was partnered with students from Patrician Brothers College in Sydney to form one of four companies that were competing against each other to develop the winning tender for a lunar settlement.

For the fifth year in a row, the St Aidan’s company (Magellan) was successful in winning the national competition and as a result have qualified for the International Space Settlement Design Competition, to be held at NASA Kennedy Space Centre in the USA in late July. Planning is now underway for this exciting trip which will also include travel to a range of space related exhibits and attractions, and site-seeing, in Washington DC and San Francisco.

Congratulations to all of the students who worked so hard to win this competition. Special mention should be made for our outgoing Year 12 leaders, Lucy Bristow (Head of Structural Design), Thea Woolley (Head of Automation) and Olivia Allison (CEO), for their outstanding contribution and leadership over the last three years of the competition.

The Australian Space Design Competition is an aerospace and engineering industry simulation for secondary school students from around Australia who are interested in STEM careers and the future of space exploration.

This is the 17th consecutive year that St Aidan’s has qualified for the finals.