Deadline looms for chance to attend space school

Students have just a month left to enter a competition which could see them win a trip to NASA’s Mission Control.

The Conrad Foundation’s Spirit of Innovation Awards are open to pupils aged between 13 and 18 and challenge them to design products which combat 21st century problems.

Manx space company ManSat sponsor the competition which sees winning teams travel to the NASA Johnson Space Centre in Houston.

Each year ManSat also sends two students for a scholarship at the centre – both projects that chief executive Chris Stott thinks are incredibly valuable:

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