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Ñuble Ciencia Viva Brings Space Technology to San Nicolás High School Students

Wed, 04 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Ñuble Ciencia Viva 2026 gathered school students and researchers at the Liceo Bicentenario de Excelencia Polivalente San Nicolás on 21 October. Prof. Carlos González and undergraduate Claudia Villa presented the SUCHAI program, the technical challenges of building Chilean university satellites, and the SUCHAI-4 launch. They also introduced a VIME-funded initiative in which high-school students assemble a portable ground station and receive signals from the satellite, connecting classroom work with the lab’s research at DIINF.

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Sin Manual: USACH Faculty of Engineering Hosts Innovation and Entrepreneurship Exchange

Fri, 15 May 2026 12:00:00 +0000

The USACH Faculty of Engineering held “Sin Manual”, a day organised by its Innovation Centre together with the Department of Economics and the Entrepreneurs Club. Students, academics and alumni shared real experiences of innovation and entrepreneurship, with emphasis on trying ideas even when the path is not written in advance. The activity is part of the faculty’s efforts to bring innovation practice into engineering training and to connect the university with the networks that support new ventures.

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VIME Fund: Project Will Bring Satellite Ground Stations to High Schools to Strengthen STEM Teaching

Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Dr. Carlos González was awarded a VIME grant for a project that connects high-school STEM groups with real space missions developed in Chile, framed by the low-cost nanosatellite programme that will launch SUCHAI-4 during 2026. The project builds a portable ground station able to capture satellite signals and takes it into classrooms. It responds to an unequal access to space-based STEM experiences among secondary students, and aims to motivate specialisation in STEM careers through hands-on work with locally built space technology and its mission operations.

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Carlos González Cortés Talks About Nanosatellite Space Exploration Challenges at USACH

Wed, 15 Apr 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Carlos González Cortés gave a talk at USACH on the engineering challenges and research opportunities of space exploration with nanosatellites built in Chile. He reviewed the history of the small-satellite programme developed at Chilean universities, the scientific and technical constraints imposed by the CubeSat standard, and what it takes to build satellites locally. The session closed with the global trends of the space sector and the ways in which USACH can contribute to space exploration through its students and research groups.

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Student Presents Portable Ground Station Project for STEM Outreach in Schools

Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:52:14 +0000

On 14 January, Claudia Villa gave her first conference talk at the IV Jornadas En Línea en Educación Superior y STEM, organised by CICES at the USACH Faculty of Engineering. She presented her thesis project on using satellite technology to foster STEM learning in schools through a portable ground station, supervised by Carlos González Cortés and Rodrigo Muñoz Lazo. The plan includes an intervention at the Liceo Bicentenario San Nicolás, an application to the VIME fund to cover three stations, and validation of the equipment with SUCHAI-4.

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