Astro Pi challenge
Credit: Raspberry Pi Foundation
The European Astro Pi Challenge is an annual science and coding competition where students have the opportunity to develop code that could be run on the International Space Station's (ISS's) unique Raspberry Pi computers, called Astro Pis. Canadian students are allowed to participate as Canada is a cooperating state of the European Space Agency (ESA).
Two different complexity levels make the Astro Pi Challenge accessible to students with or without coding experience.
- Mission Zero
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Mission Zero is suitable for beginners and primary school children. No special equipment or coding skills are needed!
- Mission Space Lab
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For Mission Space Lab, students teamsdesign and program a scientific experiment to be run on an Astro Pi computer. The best experiments will be deployed on the ISS, and teams will have the opportunity to analyze and report on the results.
Who can participate?
Mission Zero is open to Canadian and European students up to 19 years old.
Mission Space Lab is open to teams of Canadian and European students up to 19 years old. Each team must include between two and six students and be supervised by a teacher or mentor.