On Monday the team travelled to Bristol to compete in the Regional competition, and we were thrilled to have passed to and are heading to...

January and February were busy months with the deadline to finish getting closer and closer. But with lots of hard work and a few late...

As part of the outreach project we ran a house competition for year 7s: The Egg-Drop Challenge. Each team is given an egg - using...

We did some research into how we could minimise the speed at the final descent and we decided to go for an aerobrake system. We aimed to...

We discovered that a system with only one motor would cause rapid rotation due to the moments caused by the DC motor. We had seen this in...

Another busy month from the Hertswood CanSat team! Cake Sale This week we organised a cake sale at break time to students, raising...

We decided to entice younger groups into a career in STEM by supporting them with their own projects. We wanted to find projects linked...

External support from other companies is crucial for our project to succeed as it is important to gain a good amount of money which will...

Now a few months into the project and we have made great progress! So far we have achieved... 1. Calibration of pressure and temperature...

We started designing on autodesk 360, once 3D printed, we assembled for testing. Mr Kane managed to construct a prototype using a 3D...

One crucial component on our CanSat is the Micro controller or the ‘brain’ of the CanSat. We decided to do an initial investigation to...

For our mission we had a requirement of having a parachute that had a minimum velocity of 10 m/s. To achieve this we assigned Luke to...

Team gets together to do some initial research on the project. Determining roles and the path the project should take in achieving our...