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FUTA Leads Africa in Global Satellite Competition


The competition whose aim is to provide students across the Globe with an opportunity to gain practical experience working on a small-scale space project, saw the Can Size Satellite, CanSat FUTA team successfully emerging among the top five in the world and the first and only African University to partake in such competition.

He highlighted the stages of the preparation for the competition which include the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) with the involvement of a mentor and sponsor, Mr. Tayo Shonibare, based in Canada. At the PDR stage the group scored 98.96 percent which qualified it for the next stage of Critical Design Review (CDR). At the CDR stage, the group scored 97.17 percent qualifying it for the launch. The launch was supposed to be held in Virginia, USA but due to delay in logistics the team could not go, hence the need for a local launch.

Applauding the team, Professor Dahunsi said “to our incredible students, today is the day we celebrate your hard work and success. At the beginning you were stepping into uncharted territory building a CanSat from scratch is not a simple field, it required creativity, perseverance, and the courage to face and overcome setbacks, but each time you encountered a challenge you dug deeper, innovated further, and remained resolute in your goal. The launch we are witnessing today is not just the culmination of months of hard work, but also realizing the power of vision, collaboration, and commitment.”
In her remarks, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Adenike Oladiji commended the ingenuity, doggedness, resilience and the ‘spirit of FUTARIAN’ exhibited by the team. According to her anyone who adds value to the FUTA project is a FUTARIAN.

Speaking about collaborations and its benefits, Prof Oladiji said “what I see today is the power of collaboration and am advising that in all we do, in schools and department let us know that until we collaborate we may not make good progress as I have searched and discovered that in sciences no Nobel prize winning team comes from the same discipline, usually they are from different disciplines telling us that if we go alone we are not likely to go far. I want to implore us that in all our research let us learn to make it multidisciplinary as we continue to collaborate with one another.”

Daramola thanked the team advisor, Professor Folashade Dahunsi and the sponsor, Mr. Tayo shonibare who saw the can-do spirit in the team. “This mission is not something we have done before, so taking up the courage to do it was something challenging at the onset. We thank God we delivered.”

The CanSat FUTA Team include:
Daramola Oluwafemi, Team Lead, 500 level Electrical and Electronics Department
Alfred Kareem 400 level
Babalola Oluwatosin 500 level
Sunday Oluwadamilola 500 level
Lawal Ibraheem 500 Level
Olowolayemo Timilehin 400 level
Adetunji Abolade 500 level
Oyeleke Elijah 500 level