USM CubeSat Challenge

 A team of four 8th-grade students is participating in the University of Southern Maines CubeSat design competition. Students must conceptualize, plan and present original payload designs meeting the USM Cubesat design challenge mission objectives. The design competition is meant to challenge student teams to perform a complex engineering task under constraints to spur creativity and gain experience in the engineering design process. Students will submit a design packet and narrative describing their original work to a panel of experts within the space industry.

The competition aims to:

  • Engage students in STEM experiential learning and consider future careers within the space industry
  • Increase student confidence in STEM through problem solving within a real space mission experience
  • Allow students to develop and practice soft career skills, such as teamwork, leadership and project management
  • Bolster the CubeSat research and development work being undertaken within the Maine space industry.
The team met with USM professor Scott Eaton to discuss the logistics of their CubeSat mission idea.

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