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ESA's Educational Activities on ISS

Nigel Savage Education Programme Coordinator for HSO ESTEC, 19 September 2012

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ESA ISS Education Mandate:

Increase awareness of Human

Spaceflight through education

Enhance appreciation and

understanding of the benefits,

challenges and importance of

space for Europe

General objectives

To stimulate the interest of youth in

science technology, engineering and

mathematics

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Direct target groups

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Indirect target groups

Informal educators (museums, science

centres)

Space agencies (via advisors or contact

person)

Media (science journals e.g. Science

in School)

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Supporting modular didactic materials (1)

§  ISS education kits

§  Primary ISS kit

§  Secondary ISS kit

> Translated into 12 languages

§  DVDs

Mission 1, 2, 3, 4

§  Newton’s laws

§  Body in Space

§  Materials in Space

§  Space Robotics

Other

§  Ingredients for Life

§  Nutrition on Earth and in Space

§  Space Travel: An ATV perspective

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Supporting modular didactic materials (2)

§  Online lessons

§  upper secondary school students

§  Space-in-bytes - movies 4-8 mins on

ISS activities

§  primary and secondary (> 12) §  Convection

§  Foam stability

§  Life in Space

§  A drop of water

§  ATV

§  Radiation

§  Gravitation and weightlessness etc..

> Translated in 13 languages

§  Online clips and YouTube videos

http://www.youtube.com/esa

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Mission based education programmes

•  “Take Your Classroom into Space” experiments

•  Cooperation with national space agencies

•  Lessons and hardware for schools

•  On-orbit video of experiment

•  Live In-flight Call (with 4 different locations

Europe-wide)

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Proposed education programme “Volare” Mission

•  “Space Robotics” theme

•  Cooperation with national space agencies (ASI)

•  Space Robotics competition (secondary schools)

•  On-orbit video of robotics -

•  Space in bytes (Canadarm, Robonaut, SPHERES)

•  Space Robotics lecture series – iTunesU, YouTube EDU

•  Live In-flight Calls:-

•  “Space Robotics” finals

•  Mission X event in DLR/EAC July 2013

•  ATV 4 educational event (HUJI, ASI (Milano TBD), DLR (location TBD)

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University level education

§  SpaceMaster - Erasmus Mundus Master Course in

Space Science and Technology

§  2yrs Master Course under the umbrella of the EC

§  Each year around 30-35 non-EU students and 15-20

EU students join the SpaceMaster Course

§  Life in Space

§  Annual two-week summer course main topic

exobiology

§  ABC-net

Lecture series for the Astrobiology Lecture Course

Network

§  Space medicine -Workshop

§  Bachelor or Master’s level student of physiology,

medicine, sports science, biomedical engineering or

any other life science related field

e-learning session with ESA astronaut Frank De Winne

Hands-on experience during the courses

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Projects for teachers

ESA summer workshop for teachers

• This year’s edition: 10 to 13 July 2012

• Learning and sharing innovative and inspiring methods using space as a

means for engaging students with the sciences

• Open to teachers of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics

(STEM) subjects in secondary schools (students 12-18 years old) of ESA

Member and Cooperating States

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Space Lab: with Google/YouTube, NASA, ESA, JAXA

Global competition launched in Autumn 2011

§  Winning experiments performed on the ISS, live-streamed

to a global audience late 2012.

Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut §  Six week programme targeting health and nutrition. Participation

of 6000 students and teachers Europe-wide

§  International Cooperation: 10300 children worldwide participating

in 2012 Aimed at primary school

students (8-12 years old) - focusing on healthy eating

and exercise

International initiatives: Collaboration on primary and secondary education with ISS partners

SPHERES: ZeroRobotics Competition with NASA and MIT §  Secondary school students code 3D algorithms which operate

SPHERES (Synchronised Position Hold Engage Reorient

Experimental Satellites), free floating satellites on the ISS

NEEMO: NASA Extreme Environment Mission Ops §  ESA astronaut participating in this exploration preparatory

activity performing educational experiments

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Thank you

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ZEROROBOTICS www.zerorobotics.org http://www.esa.int/SPECIALS/Education/SEMP925XX2H_0.html http://www.esa.int/esaHS/SEM6SV7YJ6H_education_0.html