A team of our Year 13 students recently took the opportunity to take part in the Dstl Callisto Moon Base challenge.

This activity was launched to a number of UTCs across the UK and teams competed for the top spot in creating a moon base on the second largest moon of Jupiter.

There were multiple areas students had to consider such as crew members, water, energy and food supply, microgravity, the weight of materials to transport and various other factors.

They were given a maximum payload of 10,000 kg and could only use current or developing technologies to assist their mission.

Each team consisted of different job roles, the Systems Engineer, Resources Engineer, Environment Engineer and the Societal and Health Engineer with each role having specific responsibilities throughout the challenge.

Our team used CAD drawings as well as a 3D model to capture the specifics of their design to assist their presentation and we're very proud of the hard work and effort students put into this project. They worked well as a team with limited time to pull together their final design.