Guest blog: Principia Schools Conferences
After much anticipation, the Principia Schools Conferences took place on 2 and 5 November 2016.
Education
Odysseus Space Science Challenge
Deadline: 31 March 2017
Cosmos Space Probe Design Challenge 2.0
As a mobile planetarium and science communication business, Cosmos Planetarium, we were looking for a unique and exciting way to engage hard to reach children. We wanted to give them the confidence to explore STEM subjects further and to realise …
Train like an astronaut with the Mission X space class 2017!
Registration for Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut 2017 is now open!
World Space Week: Education and Outreach
This week, we're celebrating World Space Week (#WSW16). Today we're focussing on Education and Outreach, an important area in the Agency. Our team has reached over 1.3 million young people through its education programme over the last year, with the …
Space Bugs
Space Bugs: no, not a 1960s B movie – it’s the latest and final in the Open University’s series of 60 second explainers on microgravity, narrated by David Mitchell.
Bed Rest
The latest of the Open University’s excellent 60 Second Adventures in Microgravity tackles research using bed rest.
The Vomit Comet
This week the Open University released the second in a series of excellent primers on microgravity – this time, looking at how the evocatively nicknamed Vomit Comet – AKA parabolic flights – can help scientists understand how planets form.
What is microgravity?
This week the OU released the first of four new videos funded by the UK Space Agency, called 60 Second Adventures in Microgravity, which you can see here: We’re really proud of these videos, which nicely manage the balancing act …
Classrooms taken into space
Groups of 4-11 year old children were recently ‘taken to infinity and beyond’ to celebrate all things space.