Two Sarawak school teams take CanSat projects to Thailand competition
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Teams from SMK Padungan in Kuching and Sekolah Seni Malaysia Sarawak are representing Malaysia at the APRSAF-32 CanSat Competition 2026 in Thailand.
Both qualified after finishing third in their respective categories at the Malaysia Rocket CanSat Competition 2026. Those national placings are the results already secured; they are not awards from the current international competition.
The Thailand contest runs from Oct 28 to Nov 1 at the National Science Museum. As reported on Oct 30, the teams are participating, with no international result announced in the report.
Their route began with the Sarawak Rocketeers CanSat Challenge, organised by Tabung Ekonomi Gagasan Anak Sarawak (Tegas) with Universiti Teknologi Mara’s MTC High Energy Material Research Laboratory. That gives the local achievement a concrete progression: a Sarawak hands-on programme, national category placings and now an international test.
CanSat tasks centre on a compact satellite-like device, putting engineering, technology and problem-solving into practice. For the participating schools, this is a chance to test those skills against regional competitors, rather than a claim that pupils have launched an operational satellite.
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