Mercy Mounthawk wins national final of European Space Agency competition

Mercy Mounthawk has won the national final of a European Space Agency (ESA) competition.

The team was the only one from Kerry among the six national finalists at the ESERO-Ireland CanSat competition in county Laois this week.

The team consisted of five transition year students: Culann Dowling, Rory Lally, Torran Miller, Jake O'Reilly and Conan Seino.

Under the supervision of their teacher Wayne Hayes, they designed, built and launched their own mini-satellite.

They will travel to the European Space Agency (ESA)'s European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in the Netherlands in June (17-19).

There they will partake in the international ‘Space Engineer for a Day’ event.

Image Courtesy of Wayne Hayes Mercy Mounthawk