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Monday, July 28, 2025

Global Cubes in Space contest to launch in T&T

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Sev­en­teen North­gate Col­lege stu­dents are to re­ceive awards from the Cana­di­an High Com­mis­sion­er for the school's win­ning en­try in the glob­al Cubes in Space pro­gramme.

Cubes in Space is a no-cost glob­al de­sign con­test in which teams of sec­ondary school stu­dents from around the world com­pete by de­vel­op­ing sci­ence ex­per­i­ments for launch in­to space. The T&T-based cam­pus of North­Gate Col­lege won the 2014 glob­al prize for ex­per­i­ment de­sign.

Each stu­dent will re­ceive an award from Cana­di­an-based Cubes in Space or­gan­is­ers, iDood­lesSoft­ware, at the spe­cial cer­e­mo­ny host­ed at the High Com­mis­sion­er's res­i­dence in Port-of-Spain on Sep­tem­ber 26.

"It is sig­nif­i­cant that stu­dents from a school in a Caribbean coun­try with no space pro­gramme could de­sign an ex­per­i­ment, have that ex­per­i­ment sent in­to space and win our glob­al con­test," iDoo­dle­Soft­ware Inc. founder and chief ex­ec­u­tive Robert Sowah told the Guardian.

The prize­giv­ing will dou­ble as the glob­al launch of the 2015 Cubes in Space pro­gramme, which tar­gets 11- to 14-year-old stu­dents. The cer­e­mo­ny will fea­ture pre­sen­ters such as US Na­tion­al Aero­nau­tics and Space Ad­min­is­tra­tion (NASA) as­tro­naut Dr Roger Crouch, who flew on two US space shut­tle mis­sions, and Bevil Wood­ing, chief knowl­edge of­fi­cer of Con­gress WBN.

"The hope is that more kids from around the world will be tak­ing part in this one as a re­sult of the Caribbean's and North­Gate Col­lege's suc­cess," Am­ber Dee-Hart, co­or­di­na­tor for the Cubes In Space pro­gram said in an in­ter­view.

The Cubes In Space pro­gram is a part­ner­ship be­tween idoo­dle­soft­ware inc., Ru­bik Learn­ing Ini­tia­tive, the Col­orado Space Grant Con­sor­tium's Rock­Sat-C pro­gram and sup­port­ed by the Sound­ing Rock­et Pro­gram Of­fice at NASA's Wal­lops Flight Fa­cil­i­ty.

The launch is be­ing held in con­junc­tion with the Bright­Path Foun­da­tion Tech­Link event, which is be­ing held on Sep­tem­ber 27 at the Cipri­ani Col­lege of Labour and Co­op­er­a­tive Stud­ies, Val­sayn.


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