Our STEM and critical thinkers are ignited
ECU Mission Cleanroom Challenge
Our Gifted and Talented and Specialist Aviation Program students are on a secret mission to help design, build, and launch a satellite into Low Earth Orbit!
Selected from over 40 schools, our students are on a mission to gain valuable science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills about our planet and solar system through the Edith Cowan University (ECU) IGNIS Mission Student Internship program.
Students from Years 7 to 11 in our Gifted and Talented, and Specialist Aviation Program, joined 23 participating schools at ECU to learn about the IGNIS Mission Student Internship program from leading engineering experts and space industry professionals. They participated in a series of lectures and challenges including the Cleanroom challenge, Engineering Resilience blueprint challenge, and visited the many multidisciplinary engineering laboratories.
During the internship students will assist scientists and engineers to assemble, test, deploy sensors and analyse data collected from innovative ground stations and test flights for Phase 2 2026, where the mission will launch a satellite to collect data from the low Earth orbit.
In phase 3, 2032, there will be a deep space mission to Jupiter to better understand its atmosphere and lightning events, and one of its moons called Io to learn about its heat signatures.
We can’t wait to learn what they discover in space through this valuable internship.
About:
The IGNIS intern program hosted by Edith Cowan University (ECU) is designed to provide students from Years 7 to 11 across Western Australia with real-world experience, encourage them to take risks, and demonstrate how exciting and rewarding STEM can be. The IGNIS Mission named after the Latin word ignis for ‘fire’, is a collaborative effort involving Australian universities and NASA that seeks to harness space technology to study thunderstorms and lightning strikes that cause devasting and deadly fires in the Australian landscape.
ECU is the only university in Western Australia to participate in the mission spanning 8 years.
IGNIS lecture theatre left- right, Alwyn Thomas Year 11, Clinton Matthews Year 10, Darzel Puyales Year 7, Bruce Bonner Year 8, Anjika Karthick Year 9, Annika Bonner Year 9.
To discover more about the mission visit ECU | IGNIS Mission : Community : Engineering : Schools.
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