The 13th Science Projects Workshop in the Future Classroom Lab, organised by Scientix, in collaboration with the STEM Alliance and OPENSKIMR took place in Brussels in October 2016, from Friday 14 (starting time: 19:30) to Sunday 16 (end ~14h).

1. Workshop:
SPACE CAREERS
Dr Anastasiya Boiko
European Schoolnet

3. Mission: Observation

4. Mission: Observation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fArc7dslIO0

5. Mission: Analysis

6. Choosing (potential) role models
• Instead of being perfect people, they should be ‘real people’, such as:
- People with families, outside interests
- People who faced struggles along the way (e.g. found maths challenging)
- NOT ‘super-geniuses’, not ‘perfect’ (may be especially important for girls)
• Pathways to their jobs
- What attracted them to space science?
- How did they actually get there? (What choices did they make?)
• Acknowledging the reality of the field (lack of diversity but hope for the future)

7. Project gives access to high-quality resources with a focus on current missions and global concerns:
The resources are created using inquiry based methods and hands on approaches for primary and secondary
schools, and science museums
Ready to use quality material selected through peer-review
Easy integration in European curricula, easy to use in non-science disciplines
High attention to diversity
Material translated into 8 European languages
Space Awareness educational resources

8. Mission: Exploration
http://www.space-awareness.org/en/careers/

9. Mission: Launch

10. This material was developed under the Space Awareness project
funded by the European Commission’s Horizon 2020 Programme
under the grant agreement no. 638653
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