Space School UK 16-18yrs
Nationwide, England (Midlands)
05. 08. 12 - 12. 08. 12
Senior Space School UK is residential summer school held at the University of Leicester. It is aimed primarily at students preparing for their A-levels and who have a strong interest in all things space-related. The disciplines covered range from physics and astronomy, to engineering and astronautics, planetary science and from space physics to genetics and human spaceflight.
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Events Upcoming events
- June 2013
- July 2013
- National Space Academy Careers Event Year 10 (01.07.13)
- ESERO-UK Teacher Conference 2013 (02.07.13 - 03.07.13)
- The National Space Centre Practical Work in Physics 3 day suit – part 3 (05.07.13)
- Soapbox Science 2013 (05.07.13)
- Force Academy Training (06.07.13 - 07.07.13)
- National Space Academy Careers Event Year 10 (08.07.13)
- UK Space Conference 2013 Outreach/Education Programme (16.07.13 - 17.07.13)
- ESERO-UK Space Education Meeting (17.07.13)
- Pinhole Camera Workshop (19.07.13 - 20.07.13)
- DISCOVER THE COSMOS Summer School 2013 (30.07.13 - 05.08.13)
- August 2013
- DISCOVER THE COSMOS Summer School 2013 (30.07.13 - 05.08.13)
- Planet Aliens Modelling Workshop (03.08.13 - 04.08.13)
- Rocket Weekend (17.08.13 - 18.08.13)
- ESA Summer workshop for teachers (20.08.13 - 23.08.13)
- Heroes & Legends Weekend (24.08.13 - 25.08.13)
- Laser Quest at Armagh Planetarium (26.08.13 - 30.08.13)
- Astronaut Fitness Training (26.08.13 - 30.08.13)
- October 2013
- World Space Week 2013 (04.10.13 - 10.10.13)
- Space as a Context for Teaching Science - The James Webb Space Telescope - Part 2 (07.10.13)
Previous events
- June 2013
- The National Space Centre Astronomy (03.06.13)
- The National Space Centre Practical Work in Physics twilight (06.06.13)
- Discover the Cosmos (07.06.13)
- Space as a Context for Teaching Science - The James Webb Space Telescope (09.06.13 - 11.06.13)
- Astrophysics (11.06.13)
- Planning Science in a Creative Curriculum: Space (12.06.13)
- Public Lecture: The Power of Dreams (12.06.13)
- Writing Space – Encouraging Boys’ Writing Using Space as a Context (13.06.13)
- The National Space Centre Practical Work in Physics 3 day suit – part 2 (14.06.13)
- The National Space Centre Active Approaches in A-level Physics 1 day Intensive (18.06.13)
- May 2013
- April 2013
- Maths CAN be fun with Math ‘a’ Magic (01.04.13)
- Laser Tag is coming to Armagh Planetarium (02.04.13 - 05.04.13)
- March 2013
- The National Space Centre Practical Work in Chemistry (01.03.13)
- Astrophysics: A Grand Day Out (05.03.13)
- Life in the universe (09.03.13)
- FREE Space Technology CPD (20.03.13)
- Armagh Planetarium is proud to host “The Dragons of Azrael” (23.03.13 - 26.03.13)
- February 2013
- The National Space Centre Practical Work in Physics 1 day intensive (01.02.13)
- Astrophysics: Earth & Space (06.02.13)
- Discover the Cosmos (08.02.13)
- Bringing Cutting Edge Science into the Classroom: Astrophysics (08.02.13)
- Enriching the Primary Curriculum using Space and Astronomy (12.02.13 - 13.02.13)
- Deep Space (12.02.13)
- Space for imaginative teaching and learning (13.02.13)
- IOP Physics in Perspective (17.02.13 - 19.02.13)
- UKSEDS National Student Space Conference (23.02.13 - 24.02.13)
- January 2013
- The National Space Centre Active Approaches in A-level Physics 1 day Intensive (11.01.13)
- The National Space Centre Practical Work in Physics 3 day suit – part 1 (23.01.13)
- The Life and Times of Sir Patrick Moore (24.01.13)
- National Space Academy Careers Event Year 12 (28.01.13)
- Free Teacher Training Event - Mission X Train Like An Astronaut (30.01.13)
- December 2012
- National STEM Centre and National Science Learning Centre Open Day 2012 (01.12.12)
- European Space Solutions (03.12.12 - 05.12.12)
- Hands on space education opportunities at the European Space Expo in London (03.12.12 - 09.12.12)
- The National Space Academy Showcase Event (03.12.12)
- Armagh Planetarium event - Awesome Universe (04.12.12)
- National Space Centre Primary CPD Day (05.12.12)
- November 2012
- Armagh Planetarium’s Spooky Half-Term Halloween (27.10.12 - 02.11.12)
- National Space Academy Careers Event Year 12 (12.11.12)
- GCSE Astronomy: A Masterclass (14.11.12)
- National Space Centre Primary CPD Day (14.11.12)
- National Space Centre Primary CPD Day (21.11.12)
- Dark Skies (22.11.12)
- The National Space Centre Practical Work in Physics 1 day intensive (27.11.12)
- Calling All Mars Explorers (27.11.12)
- Free Teacher Training Workshop on Particle Physics (28.11.12)
- Dark Skies: Cloudy Weather (29.11.12)
- ESERO-UK free CPD on Space for primary teachers (30.11.12)
- October 2012
- World Space Week 2012 (04.10.12 - 10.10.12)
- The James Webb Telescope - Space as a Context for Teaching Science - part 2 (08.10.12)
- Resource Space: Free Training for Primary and Secondary Teachers and Advisers (18.10.12)
- A-level Particle Physics Course (19.10.12)
- Apollo 16 Astronaut Charles Duke Dinner and Lecture (20.10.12)
- National Space Centre Primary Space CPD Session (23.10.12)
- IOP North East branch lecture (25.10.12)
- Armagh Planetarium’s Spooky Half-Term Halloween (27.10.12 - 02.11.12)
- Spooktacular Halloween Event at the Armagh Planetscarium (30.10.12)
- September 2012
- ESERO-UK Conference: Celebrating the use of Space to enrich teaching and learning in the UK (13.09.12 - 14.09.12)
- Heroes & Legends Weekend (15.09.12 - 16.09.12)
- IOP North East branch lecture (20.09.12)
- SpaceUp Europe (22.09.12 - 23.09.12)
- August 2012
- Space School UK 13-15yrs (29.07.12 - 03.08.12)
- Space School UK 16-18yrs (05.08.12 - 12.08.12)
- July 2012
- European Space Camp (24.06.12 - 01.07.12)
- Year 10 Careers Event (02.07.12)
- Physics Academy (02.07.12 - 06.07.12)
- CPD - Physics for Specialists (04.07.12)
- ZooTeach (05.07.12)
- CPD - Chemistry (06.07.12)
- Train as a Jedi at Armagh Planetarium (07.07.12 - 08.07.12)
- Space Academy Teachers’ Conference (07.07.12 - 08.07.12)
- The ESA summer workshop for teachers 2012 (10.07.12 - 13.07.12)
- CPD - Physics for Non Specialists (11.07.12)
- CPD - Applied and BTEC Science (11.07.12)
- Space Careers at Farnborough Air Show (11.07.12)
- Pinhole Camera Workshop (14.07.12 - 15.07.12)
- Space School UK 13-15yrs (29.07.12 - 03.08.12)
- June 2012
- Armagh Planetarium’s Great Balloon Race (05.06.12)
- Searching for the new worlds - from planets to subatomic particles (09.06.12)
- The James Webb Telescope - Space as a Context for Teaching Science - part 1 (10.06.12 - 12.06.12)
- The National STEM Centre - Annual Primary Mathematics Conference (11.06.12)
- Annual Meeting for Teachers of Physics in Schools & Colleges (14.06.12)
- Media and Writing Space (14.06.12)
- Have Spacesuit Will Travel (18.06.12)
- Packing for Mars – Life In Space (19.06.12)
- The National STEM Centre - Annual Secondary Mathematics Conference (21.06.12)
- CPD - Physics for Non Specialists (22.06.12)
- European Space Camp (24.06.12 - 01.07.12)
- Year 10 Careers Event (25.06.12)
- Taster Day - Physics (27.06.12)
- Taster Day - Astrophysics (28.06.12)
- May 2012
- April 2012
- A Night with the Stars (24.04.12)
- Packing for Mars – Life in Space (25.04.12)
- March 2012
- ASE Scotland Annual Conference 2012. (02.03.12 - 03.03.12)
- The Royal Society of Engineering - The 2012 International Lecture and Dinner (05.03.12)
- CPD - Astronomy in the Classroom (07.03.12)
- Titan is Coming to Armagh Planetarium! (10.03.12 - 11.03.12)
- Exploring Mars and the Universe Using Lego (12.03.12)
- Physics Teacher Seminar Series: Condensed Matter Physics (13.03.12)
- Reviewing the Science Curriculum - part of the Westminster Education Forum National Curriculum Seminar Series (13.03.12)
- Liverpool Telescope: a Giant Robotic Eye on the Sky (15.03.12)
- Particle Physics Masterclass (21.03.12)
- CPD - Physics for Specialists (23.03.12)
- CPD - Physics for Non Specialists (27.03.12)
- Exploring Mars Alongside Bridget, the Mars Rover (27.03.12)
- LEGO® Calling All Mars Explorers (29.03.12)
- February 2012
- Faulkes Telescope and National Schools' Observatory training workshop (03.02.12)
- European Astrofest 2012 (10.02.12 - 11.02.12)
- Planning Science in a Creative Curriculum: Space (24.02.12)
- Astronomy workshop for teachers of A-level Physics (24.02.12)
- 'Is There Anyone Out There?' free CPD day for primary teachers (24.02.12)
- Discover the Cosmos Teacher Training Workshop – free teacher training event (29.02.12)
- January 2012
- December 2011
- November 2011
- Faulkes Telescope and National Schools' Observatory training workshop (04.11.11)
- Cosford (05.11.11 - 06.11.11)
- Dark Sky Discovery Project Regional launch (10.11.11)
- Planning Science in a Creative Curriculum: Space (22.11.11)
- Starmaker: The Philosophy of Olaf Stapledon (23.11.11)
- October 2011
- September 2011
- Artists in Space (01.09.11)
- Pluto: An Enigmatic World' (01.09.11)
- The Mars Rovers (01.09.11)
- The search for the tenth planet (01.09.11)
- British Astronomical Association Autumn Weekend Meeting (02.09.11 - 04.09.11)
- Big Telescopes (02.09.11)
- Exoplanets: The search for New Earths (02.09.11)
- 66th Annual General Meeting of the British Interplanetary Society (03.09.11)
- Weathering Solar Storms (05.09.11)
- Observing Techniques (05.09.11)
- 3D Astronomy (05.09.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (06.09.11)
- The Peter Hammerton Memorial Lecture: 'Is there life out there?' (06.09.11)
- Moon Study / Mars Missions (06.09.11)
- Unveiling the Sun (06.09.11)
- From the Big Bang to what? A short history of time (07.09.11)
- The first galaxies (08.09.11)
- Apollo 13: The Longest Hour (09.09.11 - 10.09.11)
- The origins of the constellations (09.09.11)
- Hydrogen (09.09.11)
- The cooling Universe and infrared astronomy (09.09.11)
- Lochaber to the Cosmos (09.09.11)
- Galaxies in Massive Clusters (09.09.11)
- Neptune, one orbit on (09.09.11)
- Apollo 13: The Longest Hour (10.09.11)
- Stellar Types (12.09.11)
- Planetary Nebulae with Binary Central Stars (12.09.11)
- August 2011
- Constellations (01.08.11)
- Apollo 15: The Wonder of the Unknown at Hadley Appenine (02.08.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (02.08.11)
- Supermassive Black Holes (05.08.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Afternoon (06.08.11)
- Mercury, A Relative Planet (08.08.11)
- Radio Astronomy (09.08.11)
- Modern Alchemy - Exploding Stars in the Lab (10.08.11)
- Rosetta on the Road (12.08.11)
- The Mars Rovers (16.08.11)
- Engineering Week: Rocket Science (17.08.11)
- The Universe through many eyes (27.08.11)
- July 2011
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Biology (01.07.11)
- FREE Space and Astronomy Day (Primary) (01.07.11)
- UK Space Conference (04.07.11 - 05.07.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Chemistry (05.07.11)
- ESERO-UK Space Education Day (05.07.11)
- Café Scientifique - Twinkle, twinkle, little star. (06.07.11)
- Space Night (08.07.11)
- Planning Science in a Creative Curriculum: Space (11.07.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Physics (13.07.11)
- Astrophysics (13.07.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - BTEC and GCSE Applied Science (14.07.11)
- June 2011
- Sir William Herschel (06.06.11)
- Impacts from Comets and Asteroids (06.06.11)
- How did galaxies form? The effect of dark on the light (06.06.11)
- Icy Worlds (06.06.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (07.06.11)
- When will we make contact? (07.06.11)
- Mars before the Space Age (07.06.11)
- North Staffordshire Astronomical Society (07.06.11)
- Scottish Space School CPD Event for Teachers (15.06.11)
- Exoplanets: The search for planets beyond our solar system (15.06.11)
- Space as a context for teaching science (19.06.11 - 21.06.11)
- Hubble in Orbit: Two Decades and Counting (23.06.11)
- FREE Space and Astronomy Day (Secondary) (30.06.11)
- May 2011
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (07.05.11)
- The Fates of the Most Massive Stars (09.05.11)
- 'South Pacific Solar Eclipse' and 'Yuri Gagarin' (09.05.11)
- 'Diving for WIMPs: Neutrino Astrophysics and the ANTARES Project (09.05.11)
- Asteroids and NEOs (09.05.11)
- Saturn and its moons (09.05.11)
- Two Amazing Moons (09.05.11)
- Secrets of the Universe: How we discovered the Cosmos (10.05.11)
- Latest results from Cassini & Huygens (10.05.11)
- The Lone Ranger (11.05.11)
- How I wonder what you are - the birth, life and death of stars (11.05.11)
- 'Uranus, Herschel's planet: the history and discovery of Uranus' - the Gerry Lacey Memorial Lecture (12.05.11)
- Exoplanet Detection (12.05.11)
- When planets cross the Sun (12.05.11)
- Variable Stars (13.05.11)
- Solar Sailing (13.05.11)
- 21st Century Telescopes (13.05.11)
- Rediscovering Schiaparelli's Canals (13.05.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (14.05.11)
- The Campaign for Dark Skies (15.05.11)
- Robert Cormack Bequest Meeting (16.05.11)
- Europa Jupiter System Mission (16.05.11)
- Probing the Core of Andromeda (17.05.11)
- Observatories Around the World (18.05.11)
- Robert Burnham Jnr and the Lowell Observatory (18.05.11)
- "Astronaut training: the Columbus laboratory" by Dr Gail Iles (19.05.11)
- Biggest Questions in Cosmology (19.05.11)
- The Sun (20.05.11)
- April 2011
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Physics (05.04.11)
- Mars Rover Challenge - Educator Event (05.04.11)
- YuriGagarin50 (12.04.11)
- Yuri's Night (12.04.11)
- Light and darkness in the accelerating Universe (12.04.11)
- Open Dome Event - Orion Nebula - How could we miss that one? (15.04.11)
- 2011 Space Academy Teachers Conference (16.04.11 - 18.04.11)
- RAS National Astronomy Meeting 2011 (NAM 2011) (17.04.11 - 21.04.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (19.04.11)
- 'On Top of the World - the 2008 North Pole and Solar Eclipse Expedition' (19.04.11)
- Yuri Gagarin and the Soviet Space Programme (21.04.11)
- University of Keele Observatory Open Night (26.04.11)
- Art and Astronomy (29.04.11)
- March 2011
- "Dark Matter" by Dr Phil James (01.03.11)
- Rocket Launcher Make and Take (02.03.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Biology (03.03.11)
- The Big Bang (10.03.11 - 12.03.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Chemistry (10.03.11)
- Astrophysics (11.03.11)
- Rocket Launcher Make and Take (16.03.11)
- Open Dome Event - What's that? - Gone in the blink of an eye (24.03.11)
- Eyes on the stars - Space as inspiration (30.03.11)
- "Star Formation: A turbulent tale" by Dr Rene Oudmaijer (31.03.11)
- February 2011
- AstroFest 2011 (04.02.11 - 05.02.11)
- Scared of Science? (07.02.11)
- CubeSat Challenge Workshop (14.02.11)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - BTEC and GCSE Applied Science (17.02.11)
- Open Dome Event - The Dark Arts of Astronomy (28.02.11)
- January 2011
- The Association for Science Education (ASE) Annual Conference 2011 (05.01.11 - 08.01.11)
- Astronaut selection process and training (11.01.11)
- Dragster Racers - Make and Take (20.01.11)
- Free training workshop for the new STAR Centre in Keighley (26.01.11)
- "Weathering solar storms" by Dr Jim Wild (28.01.11)
- December 2010
- "The unknowns of particle physics" by Prof. Mark Lancaster (08.12.10 - 08.11.10)
- KS4 & KS5 Earth and Environmental Science INSET (10.12.10)
- "Exploring the Universe" by Dr Andy Newsam (10.12.10)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Chemistry (14.12.10)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Physics (15.12.10)
- November 2010
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - KS3 & 4 Biology (04.11.10)
- Deep Space resources for S1-S3 (06.11.10)
- FREE ESA Herschel Space Observatory INSET Session (09.11.10)
- Association for Science Education West of England Region Meeting: 'Learning Beyond...' (13.11.10)
- Faulkes telescope in the classroom (16.11.10)
- Society for Popular Astronomy (SPA) Regional Meeting (25.11.10)
- Black holes and spin offs (25.11.10)
- LUNCH HOUR LECTURE: Light and Darkness in the Accelerating Universe (25.11.10)
- Fuchs Foundation Schools Event: 'Antarctica - Mars on Earth' (26.11.10)
- The Cosmic Gift of Neutron Stars (29.11.10)
- "The unknowns of particle physics" by Prof. Mark Lancaster (08.12.10 - 08.11.10)
- October 2010
- World Space Week (04.10.10 - 10.10.10)
- Your Universe (15.10.10 - 17.10.10)
- Space Academy Science Teacher INSET - BTEC and GCSE Applied Science (18.10.10)
- September 2010
- STEM Forum Event (27.09.10)
- June 2010
