The European Astro Pi Challenge winners include a student from Bridgemont International School
Talha, a Belgian, is a rising 11th-grader at Bridgemont International School. He recalls, “It all started at the beginning of December when one of my mom’s friends saw a social media post about sending code into space. The code would be run on the ISS.
“It consisted of taking pictures and then using these pictures to estimate the speed of the ISS. My friends and I worked for 2-3 months on this project until we got a pretty convincing result.
“Once the code finished, we sent it to ESA (European Space Agency) with the hope of being chosen among the best codes sent.
“One month later (at the end of April), we got an email from the space agency telling us we were picked to run our code in space! The code will be run at some point in May, and we will receive a certificate with the exact time and date when the code was run.”
Talha has a high interest in coding and also taught a coding class to fellow students at Bridgemont this year, something that his Guides credit to his deeper understanding of the concepts that helped his team win the Challenge. Bridgemont, an online Secondary Montessori school, allows flexibility in scheduling so students can pursue extra curricular activities more fully.
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