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The "Sooners" team about ActInSpace International Finals in Toulouse, France

2018-07-26

Group photo of all participating teams from Toulouse International Finals, France, June 2018

The awards ceremony for the third ActInSpace competition, organized by CNES, ESA and ESA BIC Sud France, was held during the Toulouse Space Show 2018. Created to promoted the establishment of start-ups based on space technologies, this year's competition brought together 2,229 participants from 53 cities in 32 countries, spread over fice continents and having proposed 510 start-up projects using space technologies, data and infrastructures. The 32 teams were split into five groups, from which only one winning team could compete in the international finals. From the "Sooners" group of teams, "Singapore" made it to finals.
However, there were many special awards offered by the competition sponsors this year. Among them - the Public Award, where the "Sooners" team took the second place according to the number of likes of their start-up video on YouTube. "It was a very unique feeling to compete with the teams who had PhD professionals and experienced engineers among their members. Even though it was very hard to compete with advanced specialists, we did our best and acquired not only technical skills, but also public speaking skills that are so important for our future careers. We also made new friends from all over the world, which is one of the best bonuses of any international competition.", says Madat Sardarly, first-year Oil and Gas Engineering student.
The ActInSpace International Grand Prize, a flight in zero gravity in the A310 ZERO-G, was awarded to the Australian Wright Team Incorporated, which offers a tamper-proof identification and registration system for UAV operators. The technology used is based on a CNES patent based on Galileo (source: actinspace.org).
The European GNSS Agency GSA award was given to the Tensor Science team from Azerbaijan for their Geospinner project that offers users an entertaining product based on geocoaching rules (hobby that uses Galileo to search or hide geocoaches that are boxes with objects of different types and values). The specificity of the project is based on the entertaining aspect of the product: the goal is to find the geocoaches with indications enigmas (instead of coordinates) (source: actinspace.org).