2024 Student Conference Agenda

Friday 10th May 2024 - Cranfield University

9.30 - 10.00 GDST schools arrival, meet and greet with refreshments (15 min)

10.00 Conference Start 

10.00 - 10.15  CranSEDS on Space Technology Guest Speaker Syed Shane Raza Abidi, CranSEDS Engineering Project Manager (15 mins) 

10.15 - 11.45 NASA Earth Data Regression Group Practical Task (1hr 30mins) using own laptops. Groups will later present this task to the virtual evaluation panel, who will have already previewed samples of students' work in their pre-submitted Python programming portfolios

11.45 - 12.30 Lunch (45 mins)

12.30 - 13.00 Robotics in Society Guest Speaker Dr Gilbert Tang, Cranfield University (30 mins)

13.00 - 13.45 Student NASA Earth Data Regression group task presentations and virtual panel-student viva-voce (45 mins)

13.45 - 14.05 Software Development in Earth Science Guest Speaker Slesa Adhikari, Computer Scientist VI, S2 at NASA-IMPACT (20 mins)

14.05 - 14.15 WUSAT Spacecraft Orientation Roundtable Discussion (10 mins), Dr Bill Crofts (Warwick University) & GDST Nottingham Girls' High School

14.15 - 15.00 GDST Sutton High School-CranSEDS 2024 Royal Society STEM Partnership Extension Grant Presentation & Quantum Machine Learning for Rockery Short Course Promotion (15 mins)

15.00 - 15.10 RocketPy Development News, Guilherme Fernandes Alves (10 mins)  RocketPy Development Feedback Survey

15.10 - 15.30 Diploma and Commendation Award-giving ceremony with address by Dr Bill Crofts, Warwick University Satellite Programme Director (20mins)

15.30 Conference Event Closes and Schools Depart Cranfield