Recently three of our Year 9 students, Kaelie Doyle, Cydney McErvale and Kira St John attended the USQ NASA Space Apps Challenge.

Space Apps introduces problem-solvers to NASA’s free and open data. NASA missions to earth, the sun and solar system, all gather data in pursuit of new knowledge in order to expand our understanding through new scientific discoveries, and to help us to improve life on earth. By using NASA data to solve each year’s challenges, Space Apps teams learn about NASA’s data and share in the creation and application of the knowledge.

The girls also experienced life at USQ including listening in to a lecture, working with state-of-the-art technology, constructing websites and even had the opportunity to 'walk through' our solar system, manipulating planets using virtual reality!