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08-07-2009
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Our Space Girls have won!

Submitter: Jan Noordam
Description: As part of its outreach program, ASTRON has been sponsoring the Space Girls, the only all-girl team to participate in the national CanSat competition. We are delighted to report that, after a huge amount of work, they have won!

The girls are 5th year students of the Nassau College in Assen. They have already given a presentation as role models at the recent ASTRON Girl's Day, but that was before the final. They will come and tell us all about their victory at the end of August.

In the meantime, here is a picture taken at the final at the military firing range at 't Harde. While the rocket is being launched in the rain, some of the girls are tensely checking the screen to see whether their satellite-in-a-can performs as planned. It did. The rest is history.
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