Surrey teen Timothy Cai has rocketed to the orbit of Canada’s top young scientists.
The Fraser Heights Secondary student earned an Innovation award during the Canada-Wide Science Fair, a virtual event for 2021.
Among the top six contest winners, Timothy earned Best Senior/Platinum recognition, among some other awards, for his “Investigation into Active Control for Accessible Orbital Flight.”
It’s all about rockets, which Timothy says can be made available to everyone with small-scale active control.
On Youtube, he posted a one-minute video about his project.
“Everyone knows that rockets are big and expensive, and their payloads, doubly so,” Timothy explained in a project overview. “However, in the past decade, a new standard of satellite called the SmallSat has began to take hold in the hobby and…