CanSat 2015 Xplorer Team

Kick-Off of the Xplorer project

In the past 20th December 2014 the Xplorer team met in the Colégio Sagrado Coração de Maria - Lisboa to kick-off the participation of the Xplorer team in the 2015 CanSat Portugal competition, aiming ultimately the 2015 European CanSat Competition. It was a very fruitful meeting where all the team participants (students and teachers) had the opportunity to get to know each other better, and where very important topics were discussed and agreed:

• Each team member (teachers included) presented themselves, their professional/academic background, and their motivation; personal contacts were exchanged;
• The teachers presented:
• an overview of the CanSat competition in the world, in Europe and in Portugal;
• the most important milestones of the Portuguese and European 2015 CanSat competition;
• the organisation of the team;
• the needed material;
• an introduction to the selected programming language.
• It was agreed:
• the goal(s) of the team;
• regular meetings with definition of dates and location;
• the programming language to be used in the software part of the project;
• which software/versions will be used, programming editors and installation tips;
• the main training courses to attend to were discussed and agreed;
• communication means were discussed and agreed: Dropbox (internal to the team), (this) blog, facebook, others. 
• The next meetings were defined