Qualifying

As we arrived in LIT yesterday the first thing we did was assembled our can and made sure all things were working. Unfortunately we had some difficulties with the program and transmitters but after a while of trying different things to get it working again we final succeeded but we still had the problem of the transmitters not picking up a signal after going a certain distance from each other. We could not fix this fully we could only improve it by making the interval time greater so we just had to explain why there was a break in our results. 

After our can went up into the sky we had to go and work on our presentations inside and get the data from the launch that day and the graphs. We had some trouble withy eh equation to calculate height also. Our team was third to present to the judges and we were extremely nervous. We were called in and thankfully all the nerves dropped as we started to present. We were able to talk to judges without any trouble and answer any questions they had. The judges seemed very impressed with our use of Perspex inside the can, and also our level of teamwork put into then asking of the can. 

Then when we were finished presenting we were allowed to go outside and feast our can again but this time getting let off with a parachute as in the mor img the mechanism was failing to work. It was great to see our can falling from the sky and still working and everything. As we got to see all our hard work put Into the can pay off. We then went inside and got lunch from the people of LIT. 

It was then time for the two advancing teams to be called out. This is when we started to get really nervous. After about ten minutes of talking and thanking people the judges fisnlly announcing the two teams and we were over the moon to hear 'Colaiste Iosaefs The Buccaneers' being called out. We are delighted to be advancing onto the next stage. 

Big thanks to LIT for yesterday.