In the previous AEROFAIR 2014 and 2015 programs conducted at the USM Engineering Campus, participants learned about indoor flight in short half-day workshops before competing in flying tournaments. The workshops did train the participants to build the planes on their own, but were insufficient to allow them time to experiment with the planes’ design parameters […]
Update on 27/6/2016: Please visit these links to go to the USM Space Outreach website to read more about the description of a water rocket, the rules for the Water Rocket Competition, and to watch the instructional video on how to build your rocket launcher with the materials provided to your team on the Briefing […]
UPDATE on 28/4/2016: The Briefing Day has been changed from Wednesday, 22 June 2016, to Thursday, 23 June (3 – 5 pm). This change is due to the public holiday, Nuzul Al-Quran, also on 22 June. Application form submission deadline: Wednesday, 4 May 2016. All secondary schools in Pulau Pinang can apply to participate in […]
We have produced a short video about the AEROFAIR 2015 event, and uploaded it on YouTube at our Aerospace Eng.USM Channel. Scenes from the video include the workshop session to build indoor planes in the morning, and the competition session in the afternoon. Still images of the winners, the participants from schools in Pulau Pinang, […]
As a follow-up to the AEROFAIR 2015 outreach event in April 2015, we have produced a document titled “A Module on Indoor Flight: Basic Theory, Instruction Manual, and Event Organisation“. This module describes an outreach program on indoor flight for secondary school students and organizers of outreach programs. Its objective is to promote the fields […]
AEROFAIR 2015 has finally come to an end. The main event day of AEROFAIR 2015 was successfully conducted on Saturday, 25 April 2015. We received a full attendance of all 42 teams who applied to participate in our program. These teams consisted of 210 students and 35 teachers from 26 secondary schools in Pulau Pinang. […]
The results from this year’s indoor flight competition showed much improvement from last year’s competition. The record of the flight time in this event was 1 minute 14 seconds, a drastic improvement from the previous year’s record of less than 20 seconds. Much of the improvement was due to our approach in preparing the learning […]
The main activities of the AEROFAIR 2015 program was the workshop and the competition, held in the Dewan Utama (DU) of the USM Engineering Campus. We received full attendance from all the participants. We also sent formal invitations to relevant institutions to officiate our program: these are the (1) Unit Ko-Kurikulum, Jabatan Pendidikan Pulau Pinang, […]
The flight competition session was divided into two rounds: the First Round and the Final Round. In the First Round, the 42-team participants were divided into 2 large groups. Two parallel sessions were conducted to evaluate the flight performance of all the teams in each group. Each team were given two opportunities to fly their […]
We have produced a final report after the completion of the AEROFAIR 2015 program to document the overall process of realizing the program from conception to implementation. You can obtain a PDF copy of the AEROFAIR 2015 Final Report here for detailed information on the planning and implementation of this program, the list of its […]