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This is an archived version of the Odysseus II Contest for the academic year 2015-2015. For the latest Odysseus Contest click here.
The Odysseus regional semi-final for Czech Republic, Slovakia and Romania was organised by the Czech Space Office in iQLANDIA Science center in Liberec from 4th April to 8th April 2016. The event featured an extensive hands-on activities programme and excursions when in addition to presenting 13 team project entries in front of a jury, the semi-finalists visited space science-related laboratories, attended lectures, met space professionals and participated in fun-oriented activities within 31 student participants from the region.
Regional Semi-Final Programme
Monday 4th April 2016
17:00 – Departure by the bus from Václav Havel airport Prague to Liberec
19:00 – Accommodation: teams and teachers in Hotel Babylon, evaluators in Jasmín
20:00 – Dinner at the Babylon hotel restaurant and icebreaker
Tuesday 5th April 2016
Full day of activities at the Science center iQLANDIA Liberec
09:30 – 10:00 Opening and info (inside iQLANDIA at the FOUNTAIN)
10:00 – 10:30 Visualization of space radiation in LEO orbit by the SATRAM/Timepix spacecraft payload on board ESA Proba-V satellite, Carlos Granja, CTU Prague
10:30 – 12:00 Morning session of student project presentations
10:30 – 11:00 Radiation on Mars (CZ – Radiace na Marsu)
11:00 – 11:30 Mars vs. Earth (RO) (alternatively at 11:00 – SCIENCE SHOW in Czech)
11:30 – 12:00 Mars, yesterday’s dream, today’s ordinary (RO – Marte, visul de ieri, … astăzi)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch at the iQLANDIA restaurant
14:00 – 17:00 Afternoon session of student project presentations
14:00 – 14:30 Honeymoon – concept of a lunar city (RO)
14:30 – 15:00 Asteroids (CZ – Využívání databáze SkyMorph pro hledání nových pozic planetek)
15:00 – 15:30 To the stars (RO – Spre stele)
15:30 – 16:00 Europe’s treasures (RO – Comorile Europei)
16:00 – 16:30 Mars PhoeniX (CZ)
18:00 – Social dinner of all attendants at the Babylon hotel restaurant
Wednesday 6th April 2016
Full day of “hands-on science” freely accessible throughout the Science Center iQLANDIA
09:30 – 12:00 Morning session of student project presentations
09:30 – 10:00 Astrobiological laboratory (RO – AstroVianu Lab)
10:00 – 10:30 Rocket engine using sodium (CZ – Sodíkový motor)
10:30 – 11:00 Mars Terraforming (CZ)
11:00 – 11:30 Exoplanet discovery (SK – Princíp vyhľadávanie exoplanét a jeho vylepšenie)
11:30 – 12:00 Hydrogen line radiometer (CZ – Jednoduchý radiometr pro vodíkovou frekvenci)
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch at the iQLANDIA restaurant
13:30 – 14:00 Science show in English
14:00 – 17:00 Meeting of the evaluation committee
14:00 – 15:00 ENGLISH “hands-on laboratory” (only RO or SK students due to capacity)
15:30 – 16:30 CZECH “hands-on laboratory” (only CZ or SK students due to capacity)
16:45 – 17:15 „Journey to the Stars“ (Planetarium, iQLANDIA)
17:15 – 17:30 Awards ceremony (Planetarium, iQLANDIA)
17:30 – 18:30 Social walking dinner with guests (COSMOS expo, iQLANDIA)
Thursday 7th April 2016
09:00 – Departure of all attendants by bus to Prague
11:00 – Visit of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics
the world’s first minisatellites MAGION and modern ionospheric monitoring (J. Chum)
Lunch packs on the bus
13:00 – Tour of the Ionospheric observatory in Průhonice
16:30 – Arrival to the Hotel Florenc
Free time and dinner (meal vouchers usable anywhere in Prague)
Friday 8th April 2016
09:00 – 12:00 Optional excursion to the Van de Graaff accelerator with applications in space instrumentation testing, Carlos Granja, IEAP CTU Prague
13:00 – Adjourn from hotel Florenc to the airport (RO)
Meet the Winners
The first winning submission: Data Mining for new positions of Asteroids
Asteroids (CZ – Využívání databáze SkyMorph pro hledání nových pozic planetek)
Schools: Gymnasiums Jaroslava Seiferta and Špitálská in Prague
Students: Jakub Janoušek, Lukáš Sláma and Michal Koldinský
Teacher: Daniel Mareš
The goal was to clarify if it is possible to use archive images of SkyMorph database for providing more precise asteroid orbits. Database providing Near Earth Objects with maximal magnitude 21 contains even main belt asteroids. Using astrometrical principles the team provided more precise orbital parameters of 2 asteroids and probably found also new asteroid. They expect the database holds still big amount of interesting data to be processed.
The second winning submission: Astrobiological laboratory (RO – AstroVianu Lab)
School: “Tudor Vianu” National High School of Computer Science
Students: Andreea Zaharia with Vlad Panait
Coach: Ioana Stoica
Project AstroVianu Lab is based on the concerns in astrobiology to determine whether or not an unexplored planet is habitable. Students have chosen the mission to implement a planetary rover to measure and, hence, study certain vital parameters on such a territory.
